Don’t get too excited by the photo above. These are not the actors to play Beaker and Dr Bunson Honeydew in a live action Muppet movie. They are Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, the creators of Penny Arcade. This weekend they’re in the middle of the Penny-Arcade Expo in Washington, and they’ve issued a new trailer for their first game.
Its some big news that the game, titled “On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One” will be hitting Xbox 360 in addition to Mac, Linux, and Windows.
Wired Magazine also offers a profile, declaring “This is the story of how two douches from Spokane, Washington, became the most powerful players in the videogame industry.”

Last week the animation company Toei conducted a poll through the Anime News Network asking “Which of the following Toei titles would you be interested on viewing by Video on Demand?” and despite there being nearly 50 options in the poll Sailor Moon came out on top with an astounding 63.7% of users, that being 2535 people, voting for it. Keep in mind that users could still vote for more than one show at a time but this still made Sailor Moon the clear winner of the pool with more votes than any other.

Thanks to Sailor Moon fan site Genvid‘s users and staff for bringing this poll to the attention of fans and voting in it. That being said this is not simply a case of a web site ganging up and swaying the results of a poll. Sailor Moon was well ahead of the game when this poll was first noticed by fans.

Without a doubt this shows that there is clear interest in the anime fan community in Sailor Moon, despite the show no longer being licensed in the international market. The results of this poll are to be taken into consideration when releasing shows on demand for cable and IPTV.

Before this game came out, I never considered myself much of a sports player, and save for various college sports games, I still don’t. Now sure, I got a few chuckles out of Mutant League Football and Ice Hockey, and I played Baseball Stars to death, but other than that, sports games were too complicated for me. That’s why me, and millions of others, enjoyed this game. While it wasn’t as complex as Madden or NBA Live, the fact that it was so easy to pick up and play made it a lot more fun to play.
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