As is our way, we have delivered the most recently donated Child's Play Strip at or near the buzzer. I think the buzzer might already have gone off actually, but we ended up doing it for people who are as busy as we are, if not busier. It ended up being a crossover with a comic they also do in addition to everything else. Here's theirs, and here's ours. Many thanks to Steve and Ash for letting us play around with their toys.

I play Destiny every day. This past weekend I even started an Alt character. Now I have my level 27 Hunter as well as a level 5 Titan. Whenever I have a bit of free time I am in there playing. Kids taking a bath? I can do a story mission. 30 minutes until I have to leave for work? I can knock out a bounty or two. The Seahawks are playing? I’ll just play Destiny on my Vita all afternoon while we watch the game. Playing games is my job and so kara sees this a lot. I’m always playing something but even she commented the other day that I seem a little obsessed with Destiny. I can’t deny it either. This game has its hooks in me and I can’t stop.

The last time I played Fantasia: Music Evolved, my apparatus was not tuned for assessment.

Automata: Silverside launched officially today. We’re still wrapping up the end but it’s looking like it will be around 11 pages. It’s been a lot of fun re-visiting the world of Automata and writing for Sam and Carl again.

We've posted the cover for this project today. Actual pages will start going up tomorrow with a new one arriving every Tuesday and Thursday. For as long as the story is running you'll be able to find the latest page right up there at the top of this page, occupying the far right slot next to Camp Weedonwantcha.

Pin Pals, here is your Pin Quest for PAX Aus 2014. You can grab the PDF right here. Bring it with you to the show and check off the pins as you acquire them! Good luck!

Shadow of Mordor has a Photo Mode now, and our first question was along the lines of "how would an Uruk use Instagram." Until it occurred to us that they would use Instagram in precisely the same way everyone else does.

We’re bringing some great pins with us to PAX Australia at the end of the month. Here’s a look at the Pinny Arcade pins you’ll be able to collect in Melbourne this year!

I have Kik messenger to chat with my family. Sometimes I get crazy spam messages though. This morning I decided to have a conversation with the the spam bot. I showed it to Tycho and he said I had to post it up here. Click on the image for the big version.

I have suggested it on a few occasions, but I am something like a consultant(?) on Broodhollow. This is a sort of ornamental way of saying that I am essentially a fan with access to the creator. His writhing, newly-hatched larva is, no doubt, a veritable mine of horrors he can fold into his work - but we spent a few hours yesterday fully enunciating the spine of the setting and setting up the most pristine domino configuration to knock down over the course of the next year. The whiteboard in his office now resembles (if not fully manifests) the "crazy wall" universally embroidered by cult members and psychic children.

We have a new Halloween set for this year! Since Halloween's date is constantly in flux landing on not only different days but even different months each year, it’s hard to get the pin set done at the right time. At least that is what our merchandise manager Brian told me.

Scott Boyce took it, with his "National Anthem Joke." I liked a ton of them, but this one spoke to me directly, because I ran out of Australian stuff to talk about down there very quickly. Congrats, dude.

Disney is very, very big. Disney is da'are ghoc dala broac fuo'q "(The Dark Eye That Dwells In The Black Storm"). What they do best is to turn brands into stories, and their stewardship of Marvel is bringing three generations to the same table. I just grabbed the new Rebels pilot, but I haven't watched it yet because I won't be watching it correctly without my son at my foot and my daughter on my knee. Given how it went for so long, I thought Star Wars would be (and stay) a doddering "dad" thing, like Soundgarden or an enlarged prostate. The idea that this might be something we can all have together is still a little new.

Between Didney Infinty and Skylanders:Trap Team, I feel like I'm watching a friend who was once able to handle his high beginning to take a longer and longer time in the bathroom at parties. Inexplicably long. So long that you might begin to think that the bathroom was incidental to his purpose.

I picked up the new Skylanders: Trap Team last week because I have kids and so I can say I’m getting it for them. We played a bit of the last one Swap Force but it didn’t really stick. I have to say so far at least Trap Team is a lot more fun. The main hook this time is that you can capture monsters from the game inside these little traps. The act of capturing a monster is really well executed. The new portal has a slot for the trap and a built in speaker. When you capture one of the guys the sound from the television fades out as the sound from the portal comes in. Then a little light in the portal starts flashing along with the chatter from your newly captured monster. It’s super well done and I tried to grab a video of it here with my son Noah.

There are a little over two weeks left until the deadline for our Halloween Costume Contest. This year it's open to all of Penny Arcade, be it Gabe and Tycho themselves, or perhaps Gabbie and Tyche, maybe Div, a fierce Annarchy, or a fabulous Jim Darkmagic; their old roommate Jim, Hanna, Kevin the food court gangsta - the world is your oyster. Or comic. Or however that goes. Winners will score some awesome Penny Arcade gear and all of the costumes will be posted in an album on the site for everyone to admire!