It looks as if Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, better known as Penny Arcade's Gabe and Tycho, have left one last surprise for PAX East's after after party: the first massive webcomic fighting game.
The game will be officially announced at this year's E3 and set to be finished sometime this holiday season, Penny Arcade is once again teaming up with Hothead Games on the title. The yet to be named fighting game will pit all of today's top gaming webcomics against each other, including Sunday comic regulars PvPOnline, Rooster Teeth, Dueling Analogs and Little Gamers. And as a special surprise the game will include longtime Penny Arcade rival Ctrl+Alt+Del.
\"It's commonly known that we don't get along with [Tim] Buckley,\" Holkins said. \"But for the chance to create a great fighting game that pits all the major gaming webcomics against each other we were willing to set differences aside.\"
Krahulik also hinted that while most of the fighters will originate from video game webcomics that the roster will not be limited to just gaming comics.
\"There's definitely going to be some Applegeek, Megatokyo and PBF [Perry Bible Fellowship] in the game. We're still courting a lot of other potential comics,\" Krahulik told me during our interview.
All other possible characters aside, if we get a chance to pit Franzibald against Tycho this might possibly be the greatest game ever.
The game will be available as DLC for Xbox Live Arcade, PSN and Steam.