Inside PAX’s 6-Hour Sellout: ‘The crush was insane’

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At 10:38 AM Wednesday, the Bat-Signal for gaming geeks lit up Seattle’s cloudy skies: It’s time!PAX Prime badges have gone live!prime.paxsite.com/registration — PAX (@Official_PAX) April 17, 2013 Tickets for the tenth annual Penny Arcade Expo (PAX Prime)—running four days for the first time this year over Labor Day weekend—went on sale this week, but if… Read More…

Stylus Points: Why Penny Arcade’s Gabe is a fan of Microsoft’s Surface Pro

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Standard product reviews are fine, but we’re big fans of people actually incorporating new technologies into their daily routines and reporting back on what happens. And among those types of reviews, it doesn’t get more interesting than this piece by Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik, better known as Gabe, who documents his experience drawing on… Read More…

Penny Arcade raises $528k on Kickstarter — no home page ads for a year

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Chalk up another big milestone for the crowdfunding phenomenon. Penny Arcade raised more than $528,000 from its fans in a Kickstarter campaign that ended yesterday, clearing the way for the Seattle-based webcomic and events company to remove all of the ads from its home page for a year. It’s a notable change in the company’s… Read More…

Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter project aims to dump site ads

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Everybody’s doing Kickstarter, so why not Gabe and Tycho, too? That’s the news today from Penny Arcade, the Seattle-based media and conference company that has grown up around the popular Penny Arcade Expo events and Penny Arcade webcomic, featuring the alter egos of writer Jerry Holkins and artist Mike Krahulik. Penny Arcade has launched a Kickstarter… Read More…

Valve’s hardware ambitions revealed by Penny Arcade’s new ‘PA Report’

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In case you missed the news last month, the guys behind the hit Penny Arcade webcomic have hired veteran video-game journalist Ben Kuchera, formerly of Ars Technica, and over the weekend they launched their new PA Report, with the lofty aspiration of producing “industry coverage you can read without holding your nose.” So far, so… Read More…

Oblivious game-accessory marketer turns unhappy customer into PR disaster

The 'Avenger' accessory (on an Xbox 360 controller) was the subject of the complaint that sparked the now-infamous email exchange.

Today’s lesson in customer relations — as in, what not to do — comes from this painfully entertaining email thread in which a marketing rep for a video-game controller is first incredibly insensitive to a customer’s inquiry about a shipping delay, and then unbelievably oblivious to the influence of the Seattle-based Penny Arcade webcomic and… Read More…

Rewind: How Penny Arcade is building its business — and how it isn’t

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Our guest this past week on the GeekWire podcast/radio show was Robert Khoo, the president of Penny Arcade — the Seattle company behind the hit Penny Arcade webcomic and the popular Penny Arcade Expos (better known as PAX) in Seattle and Boston. As part of the conversation, we delved into the company’s growth strategy, and… Read More…

GeekWire Show: Bezos’ clock, Mix-A-Lot’s game, and the story of Penny Arcade

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This week on the GeekWire Show, we explain Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ plan to build a 10,000-year clock inside a Texas mountain; talk about Sir Mix-A-Lot’s latest technological innovations; and offer a reality check on the rumors that Seattle’s PopCap Games — maker of “Bejeweled” and “Plants vs. Zombies” — is in talks to be… Read More…

Name that Tech Tune: What is this classic arcade game?

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[Updated below with answer and winners] This week on the GeekWire podcast and radio show, we have a new installment of our Name That Tech Tune contest, with an audio clip selected in honor of our in-studio guest, Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade — the Seattle-based media company behind the hit Penny Arcade webcomic and… Read More…

Nerd Notes: A dad embarrasses his kid for a year and Peanuts on Twitter

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Microsoft releases a teaser trailer for Halo 4. Master Chief is still a mega hunk, sporting a mega gun.   Tetris had a birthday earlier this week (27 years old!). Here are 10 facts about your favorite unbeatable game. Introducing the Talk-o-Meter app. The passive aggressive department’s R&D is starting to pay off. When Peanuts met… Read More…