Shekhar Dhupelia is a producer at Midaway. He was cool enough to hook us up with an article for Friday. It’s going up a little early since we’ll all be at Sakuracon all weekend.Enjoy:

I should have made some things more clear in my last post.

I’ve got BIG news people! I mentioned a few weeks ago that we resolved the legal issues surrounding our first book. Well now I am happy to announce that we will have soft and hard cover versions of Penny Arcade:Year 1 available at Sakuracon. About twenty boxes of books showed up today, finally released from the legal limbo they had been held prisoner in. These are the last of the year one books and it will never be printed again. So this is your opportunity to get your hands on our first and as of right now only book!

Don’t forget to come see us at Sakuracon this weekend. We’ll have shirts and stickers and about a dozen of the limited edition Twisp and Catsby prints. We’ll also be doing a couple panels and probably competing in some tournaments up in the game room.

Tycho told me that he had people from the industry lined up to write news posts while he was gone. He even gave me the one I posted yesterday and explained the rest would arrive this week, well before I needed them. I should have known that was too good to be true.

If you can’t wait until PAX to see the one and only MC Frontalot perform live on stage, you don’t have to. Just get yourself to NYC on Wednesday May 11th for his show at the Slipper Room. You can find all the details on his site. If you can make it I highly recommend that you do. The Front puts on quite a show.

Sakura Con is this weekend. I do hope you’ll come out and say hello. Please come. I mean it, these anime kids will fucking murder us. I mentioned that we have new stickers available and that was no lie. I stuck a few of them around the PA office and then snapped some pictures. You can come to Sakura Con and get all three stickers for just a buck.

I got a lot of positive responses to the new CTS image I posted yesterday. My plan is to make this CTS image the next limited edition print and then use the pic I did of Gabe and Tycho on the subway for a new poster.

We met Geoff Zatkin when we were invited to speak at Digipen a while back. Being a person who plays a lot of videogames I'd created this image of a wizened "game designer" that was part shaman and part puppeteer, and to actually come into contact with one was intimidating. He's a nice enough guy, but when people asked us questions on the panel we would just spit up something offensive and he would respond with a series of extremely relevant statistics. To think that his art is committed largely in the tables of Excel, submerged in numbers and their relationships to one another is something that really humanized the process for me.

I drew this today, do you like it?

April 1st and the succor mongrels receive thereby has ever been a source of perturbation. Game magazines, my erstwhile, informative friends the rest of the year are - during April - shot through with untruths and manipulative falsehoods. Certainly Gabriel finds such a miserable "holiday" tailor-made for his bullshit.

He says that PAX "early bird" registration ends tomorrow, so those among you who crave value would do well to take us up on it.

So the mail I've been getting is telling me that you would rather the next limited edition print be of the CTS. What I am considering doing is using the drawing of Gabe and Tycho I posted yesterday for a new poster instead of the next print. I'm going to work on a CTS drawing this week, so hopefully I'll have something to show you soon.

Frank returns after a long hiatus to lock surreal jungle horns over a retail dispute.

After the response to the last limited edition print we decided to try and do three of them a year. I think this will be the next one. The final print will be 18x24 from edge to edge including the mat board. The actually artwork itself will measure 12x18. Once again we'll be using the laser cutting process on mylar.

God of War is absolutely, unapologetically depraved.