Penny Arcade's Gabe and Tycho Talk Greenhouse

I'm a huge Penny Arcade fan. Later this year a videogame featuring Gabe and Tycho will be released to the PC, MAC, Linux and Xbox 360. i have attached a link from wired about their latest venture, digital distribution of games. Of note in the interview, their reaction to Gamestop's response to their request to carry a boxed version of the game.

"Are you looking to kill GameStop?

Tycho: Well, I don't think that we're looking to kill GameStop, no. The reality is that there are just a lot of games that belong in a GameStop that they'd never allow there.

Gabe: Robert said we could talk about that deal with GameStop.

We had a meeting with GameStop to talk about selling a boxed version of the game. Once we had a bunch of episodes together, we would collect them and put them in a box, you know? And GameStop said, oh, that's fantastic. We'd love to do it, we'd love to carry the game... but it's not going to be available anywhere else, is it?

And Robert said, well, we're going to digitally distribute it first.

They got really upset. And they said, no, you can't do that. We can't have it in our store if it's coming out digitally first. And he said, well, I'm sorry, that's the way it works. We're publishing our game and we can say where it goes. And so the deal that they tried to strike with Robert was okay, well, listen: If you cut us in on the profits from online distribution, and XBLA, and everything it comes out on, then we'll think about carrying it in the store. Just, what assholes.

So we're not going to be seeing this game in GameStop, is what you're saying.

Gabe: Probably not."

The rest of the interview is available at Wired.com. Penny Arcade creators Mike "Gabe" Krahulik and Jerry "Tycho" Holkins talk about their ambitions for their game download store Greenhouse, how it's all set up, and the kind of indie games they want to put in front of their army of loyal readers.