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Vital Statistics

"People don't care about HD!"

Date: August 8, 2011

Written and Performed by: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, Paul Saunders

Story Graphics: Paul Saunders, Jeremy Petter

CheckPoint Graphics: Graham Stark

Music: Bradley Rains

Edited by: Jeremy Petter

Thanks To: Russ Pitts, Alexander Macris, Penny Arcade

Produced by: Graham Stark, Paul Saunders

A soul in search of answers that aren't free. Find out more on today's CheckPoint.

The 3DS gets a large price cut, slashing prices by a third.
Sony purchases Sucker Punch studios to the surprise of everyone since we thought they were already owned by Sony.
Modern Warfare 3 will not include the teleporting "knife lunge."
Blizzard announces Diablo 3 features including the controversial Real Money Auction House.
Paul follows up with more information on how much more money we will be paying Blizzard for this service.
A Duke Nukem Forever patch will let players carry more than two guns at a time.
Over 50% of Netflix streaming usage is on consoles, and over half of console traffic is from the Wii.

Capcom gets the rights to Snoopy to make a social game.

The first story directly references 3DSadness, including a screenshot from its original posting on PATV.
Graham calls "Robert" in the finale, a reference to Robert Khoo, former business manager of Penny-Arcade, then-host of Checkpoint.

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