It's rare, but not completely unheard of, for us to check in on some political thing. It's something we're reticent to do; it's easy to do wrong, and usually is, and so we avoid it the same way you might avoid any other treacherous pit.

We made Monday’s comic this morning and then decided that we should probably just put it up now.

The Vault Of Winter, Part Seven is now available - I pray it finds you well. We originally considered doing a story because we were working on something else, and that seemed like the best idea; I suggested AcqInc for a storyline next year and then it was all I could think of. It has been our great pleasure giving you something else to think about for the brief periods we were able to.

The Penny Arcade Game:Gamers vs. evil is now available on the iOS app store. Everything you loved about our deck building game has been lovingly transferred over to this robust little app.

The Vault Of Winter, Module 6: Behind The Curtain

It is now the 18th, the last day for domestic Priority Mail, also known as the final sane shipping option.

The Vault of Winter, Module 5 is now available for feasting purposes. Get your choppers filed up and go crazy on them shitz!

Word from Brian is that the Penny Arcade store is being brutalized by the vigor of your holiday shopping.

Rejoice perverts, it’s Dickerdoodle season again!

Vault of Winter, Module 4: Blood On The Gate

Although Guide should probably be in quotation marks. The game has a dogged, uncompromising insistence on simulating a BattleMech as opposed to making twitch shooter times, which is fairly noble in the current business climate. They could have sought a larger audience by making it less, well, MechWarrior, and they chose not to. They chose instead to find their audience, and damn the torpedoes. I had a lot of fun "researching" while we put the project together; it's not inconceivable that you may like it also.

So, there's two things to mention. The first is that The Vault Of Winter, Part Three is now available.

Today is December 11th and that means we've hit a few shipping deadlines today. If you want to get something from the Penny Arcade store and you want it delivered before Christmas you should be sure and consult this list:

I like Acquisitions Incorporated a lot. On some level, it was an advertisement I suppose, but I think it's one of the good ones and the kind of thing I'd be getting up to anyway. The series we're doing now isn't work for hire, or a partnership along the lines of Scott's Table Titans - this one's on the house, which is no doubt bad business, but we can't leave these characters well enough alone. Anything official this year is a part of their Underdark push anyway, and the characters in Vault of Winter basically go to the polar opposite of that.

We've always wanted to make a longer form comic with Acquisitions Incorporated, and with the holidays coming up we had an opportunity to drop it in. I think it's, like... eight comics, and it could have been longer, but I we decided that was sufficiently ridiculous. And we have a very high threshold for ridiculousness. So think about that.

Issue 3 of our Lookouts comic book is now available online via Comixology and in stores. I think this is probably my favorite issue so far. In it we learn Voel’s back story and get to see the boys take on the bridge troll.