Not Comics: Initial PAX Buzz Mostly Positive; Videogame Series Planned

I've heard from a dozen or so readers that this year's Penny Arcade Expo, a gaming convention in Bellevue, Washington established by the popular on-line gaming-culture strip, was well-attended and seemed to have been a hit. I've read nothing official yet, but the photos from their site indicate a bustling crowd and perhaps a need for a bigger convention hall.

Most of the news out of the show has focused either on perceived gamer reaction to the price point on the forthcoming Playstation 3 and the announcement that the Penny Arcade strip will itself serve as the basis of a videogame, from Hothead Games, beginning with one to be called Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. Maybe the nicest bit of news to come out of the show was that the Penny Arcade team will give a $10,000 scholarship to a student aspiring to work in the game industry. Joystiq's dedicated coverage includes a story on how today's Penny Arcade strip was drawn at the Expo.

The reason why all of this becomes noted here is that working with business manager Robert Khoo, cartoonists Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins have been leveraging their on-line comic into an increasingly lucrative position within the field covered and satirized in the strip. This is something I can't remember happening since the newspaper strip Dilbert, and something I think is unique within the growing field of webcomics.
 
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