Penny Arcade game for the Mac to ship May 21
Posted by Dennis Sellers
May 13, 2008 at 10:35am
Hothead Games has announced that the Mac OS X version of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One will be available via the new digital download service Greenhouse on Wednesday, May 21.
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One is an RPG-adventure game set in the comic-book-meets-pulp-horror-meets-H.P. Lovecraft deranged 1920s universe of New Arcadia, delivered to gamers via episodic releases. Players join Gabe and Tycho, the crime-solving team of the Startling Developments Detective Agency, to combat savage enemies and solve mysteries hidden deep in the sinister heart of New Arcadia. The game is the result of collaboration between Hothead Games and Penny Arcade, featuring artwork and characters designed exclusively by Mike “Gabe” Krahulik, story and dialogue by Jerry “Tycho” Holkins.
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One costs US$19.95. It’s rated “M” for Mature by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board for all platforms.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.






