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Penny Arcade tackles piracy

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/791728635_VJ8Qa-L-1-620x316.jpg">Those wacky <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/791728635_VJ8Qa-L-1.jpg">Penny

Do a good deed, and get your vintage arcade game on at the same time

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/neo1qd01.jpg" />It would seem that the boys from Penny Arcade are in the process of moving their operation into a secret base, where they

Killzone 2 will lead us to freedom!

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/killzoneps3.jpg" />Let's put on our literature analysis hats for this one. Here we have the traditional <a HREF="http://penny-arcade.com/

Wherein Penny-Arcade illustrates just how bad MacBook Pro overheating really is

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/hotmacbook.jpg" />So how hot does your MacBook Pro get? Like, hot hot or just hot? (I have an old MacBook that's not too bad about that k

Review scores-gate: Eidos tells reviewers to hold off on Tomb Raider reviews unless they were positive

From, obviously, Penny-Arcade Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld‘s metascore. Right now it’s 78. That&#821

Contest: Nerdiest gamer wins a nerdy game

So Penny Arcade just released the second episode of its well-liked Penny Arcade Adventures series. Well, we happen to have a very nice collector’s edition of the first episode sitting around and

Pop Quiz: What are those ports in the Penny Arcade logo?

Go look (or just raise your eyes a little ^ ). We’ve been discussing it for a while and we just can’t figure out what system those ports in the title bar are from. We’ve crossed a lo

The giving season is upon us again – Child's Play is up and running

Just as a heads up (for the three or four of you that don’t read Penny Arcade), I thought we should mention that Penny Arcade’s grassroots charity Child’s Play has begun its 2008 dri

PAX 2008: Video of Omegathon final round, plus Gabe vs. Tycho

Time to geek out. I believe if you click “play” above, you’ll be the first people other than those present at PAX to witness this momentous event. A truly epic Excitebike battle. Not

Penny Arcade Expo 2008: We're here!

Good morning sunshines! It’s day one of PAX ’08, and Devin Coldewey and I are badged up and on the scene. Today’s looking to be a crazy day, with just about every big league name in

Penny Arcade Expo line-up announced

The folks at Penny Arcade have announced the exhibitors at Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. There will be tournaments, an independent games showcase, and lots of self-referential humor that is easy to ge

Penny-Arcade pokes fun at 'outrage' over MGS 4 not getting perfect score from GameTrailers

Penny-Arcade’s war against the stupidity of game reviews, and people’s reaction to them, continues. Some folks are outraged, apparently, that Metal Gear Solid 4 only received a 9.3 from Ga

CrunchArcade: The dangers of running in first place

The Beijing Olympics begin August 8, but just remember what happens to the guy in first place. via fusioned.tumblr.com

Spore as a cult (or, the media's strange love for the game)

[photopress:sporecult.jpg,full,center] All the positive press that Spore is getting hasn’t phased the gentlemen over at Penny-Arcade, who are skeptical of the game’s quality. It “pre

Penny-Arcade's Div reminds us that iTunes movie rentals is a lot like DIVX

[photopress:padivx.jpg,full,center] As always, Penny-Arcade flies above all of our stupidity to make a point: what makes the iTunes Rental service so different from DIVX, the failed disc format? That

Look what happens when you don't log into WoW for a little bit

Friends, that is what happens when you “quit” games like World of Warcraft only to start playing again a little later. You’ll have left your toon decked out like a Williamsburg hipst

Fünde Razor raises over $5K for Child's Play charity

They raffled off these cube things. Some unappreciative jerk won them. Child’s Play, the children’s charity started by the guys over at Penny-Arcade, raised well over $5,000 at last night

Win a Weighted Companion Cube TONIGHT at Funde Razor

Feeling charitable? In the Denver or New York City areas? Check out the Funde Razor, a fundraising event for Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play yearly charity. Head to the location, buy some drin

Nintedo's Bars are Bigger Than Microsoft's and Sony's

John may hate the Wii (don’t mind him, he’s just going through a mid-life crisis), but as you can see here, Nintendo’s bars are bigger than the other guys‘ bars. Bigger bars =

Penny Arcade Weighs in on CES

I’m just going to quote these guys and leave it at that. This is how I felt ALL THE TIME in Vegas. I can only see, oh, two hundred or so flat-panel televisions before I feel confident that they