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==Other works==
===Penny Arcade Presents===
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Pa presents.png|thumb|250px|Penny Arcade Presents]] -->Under the [[web banner|banner]] of "Penny Arcade Presents", Krahulik and Holkins are sometimes commissioned to create promotional artwork/comic strips for new video games, with their signature artistic style and humor. They are usually credited simply as "Penny Arcade" rather than by their actual names. Some of these works have been included with the distribution of the game, and others have appeared on pre-launch official websites. An official list could be found on the Penny Arcade website.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Penny Arcade - Presents |url=https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115030431/https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents |archive-date=2013-01-15 |access-date=2016-09-06 |website=Penny Arcade}}</ref> The last of these commissions was posted in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=PA Presents|url=https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304060945/https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents |archive-date=March 4, 2022 }}</ref>

=== Collectible Card Game ===
On August 8, 2005, Krahulik announced that ''Penny Arcade'', in partnership with [[Sabertooth Games]], would be producing a [[collectible card game]] based on the ''Penny Arcade'' franchise.<ref>{{cite press release| publisher=Sabertooth Games | date = August 8, 2005 | title = Penny Arcade Press Release | url=http://www.sabertoothgames.com/stg/pa_press_release.asp | archive-url=https://archive.today/20060208135646/http://www.sabertoothgames.com/stg/pa_press_release.asp | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 8, 2006 |access-date =April 25, 2006}}</ref> The resulting ''Penny Arcade'' "battle box" was released in February 2006 as part of the [[Universal Fighting System]].

There are also a few [[Spin-off (media)|spinoffs]] from the main comic that have gained independent existences. An example is ''[[Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga]]'' (ELotH:TES), a parody of the written-by-committee fantasy fiction used as back-story for a wide variety of games: originally a [[one-shot (comics)|one-off]] gag in the ''Penny Arcade'' comic, in late 2005 this was expanded into a complete fantasy universe, documented on a hoax "fan-wiki".<ref>{{cite web | url = http://elothtes.pbworks.com/ | work = ELotH:TES | title = FrontPage}}</ref> ELotH:TES first appeared in the webcomic of February 7, 2005, and has subsequently been featured in the comics of November 7, 2005 and November 30, 2005. Several elements of the ELotH:TES universe are featured on the cover of their second comics collection, ''Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings''.

=== ESRB ad campaigns ===
On May 31, 2006 Krahulik announced a new [[advertising campaign]] for the [[Entertainment Software Rating Board]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2006/06/01/pa-and-the-esrb| title = PA and the ESRB| access-date =August 26, 2007| last1 = Holkins| first1 = Jerry| last2 = Krahulik| first2 = Mike| date = May 31, 2006| work = Penny Arcade}}</ref> According to Krahulik, the ESRB "wanted a campaign that would communicate to gamers why the ESRB is important even if they don't think it directly affects them." Among the reasons he listed for ''Penny Arcade''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s accepting the job was that he and Holkins are both fathers and are concerned about the games their children might play. The ad campaign was rolled out in the summer and fall of 2006 and a second campaign was released in 2012 featuring a mother, a father and a gamer describing the tools employed by the ESRB.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.esrb.org/about/psa.aspx|title=PSA ads for ESRB ratings education|website=www.esrb.org|access-date=2016-09-06|archive-date=June 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603234857/http://www.esrb.org/about/psa.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==="The New Kid" film===
Announced on June 2, 2011, [[Paramount Pictures]] had acquired the rights to produce an animated film, via [[Paramount Animation]] to make this, of the one-off strip ''The New Kid'' which was published on October 29, 2010. The strip was one of three mini-strips which featured a cinematic opening to a larger story left unexplored.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/5808076/one+off-penny-arcade-strip-gets-a-movie-deal|title=One-Off Penny Arcade Strip Gets a Movie Deal|website=[[Kotaku]]|date=June 2, 2011}}</ref> ''The New Kid'' is about a boy who's moving to a new planet with his family because of his father's career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/29/|title=The New Kid|publisher=Penny Arcade|date=October 29, 2010}}</ref> The script was written by [[Gary Whitta]] and would have been produced by [[Mary Parent]] and [[Cale Boyter]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/paramount-plots-next-animated-pic-194394|title=Paramount Plots Next Animated Pic with Alien Comic Adaptation 'New Kid' (Exclusive)|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=June 2, 2011|first=Borys|last=Kit}}</ref>

At PAX Australia in 2016, during a Q&A session, Holkins revealed that changes at Paramount resulted in the movie rights being returned to Penny Arcade and the project canceled. He did note, however, that Whitta's script was complete and the project could move forward with another production company in the future.<ref>{{Citation|last=pennyarcadeTV|title=The Wagers Of Sin - DLC Podcast Show, Season 7, Episode 19|date=2016-11-30|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8LcjISL4Ho&t=31m30s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/g8LcjISL4Ho| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2016-12-05}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===The Trenches===
'''''The Trenches''''' was a comic series by Krahulik and Holkins in collaboration with webcomic ''[[PvP (webcomic)|PvP]]'''s creator Scott Kurtz. The comic followed a man named Issac and his life as a game tester. The series was launched on August 9, 2011 and featured new strips every Tuesday and Thursday,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/5829642/new-webcomic-to-out-the-horrors-of-game-testing|title=PvP and Penny Arcade Turn The Horrors of Game Testing Into Our Own Version of The Office|website=[[Kotaku]]|first=Brian|last=Crecente|date=2011-08-10}}</ref> usually accompanied by a "Tale from the Trenches", which was a short piece submitted by a reader detailing their own experiences in the game industry.

In September 2012, Kurtz stopped illustrating the webcomic, due to lack of time, and was replaced by Mary Cagle, a former intern of his, and the creator of the webcomic [[Kiwi Blitz]]. Kurtz still continued to collaborate with Krahulik and Holkins in writing the comic.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://penny-arcade.com/2012/10/26| title = Vomifuge| last1 = Holkins| first1 = Jerry| last2 = Krahulik| first2 = Mike| date = October 26, 2012| work = Penny Arcade| access-date = November 10, 2012| archive-date = November 7, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121107233039/http://penny-arcade.com/2012/10/26| url-status = dead}}</ref>  In late August 2013, illustration was taken over by Ty Halley (''Secret Life of a Journal Writer'') and Monica Ray (''Phuzzy Comics''), former contestants of the Penny Arcade series ''Strip Search''.

''The Trenches'' was ultimately abandoned. The last comic was posted January 5, 2016, while the last ''Tales'' is from September 10, 2015.

===The Decideotron===
In 2011, Krahulik and Holkins released an application for [[iOS (Apple)|iOS]] devices called ''The Decide-o-tron'', presented by Eedar and developed by The Binary Mill.<ref name="Decide-o-tron LIVES">{{Cite web|url=http://penny-arcade.com/2011/08/22/decide-o-tron-lives|title=Decide-o-tron LIVES|publisher=penny-arcade.com|date=2011-08-22|access-date=August 23, 2011|archive-date=August 24, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824171213/http://penny-arcade.com/2011/08/22/decide-o-tron-lives|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.decideotron.com/|title=Decide-o-tron|access-date=December 8, 2011|archive-date=December 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111209102624/http://www.decideotron.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The app worked as a [[recommendation engine]] for video games; users would input games they'd enjoyed and the app attempted to predict their ratings of titles they had not yet played.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/5833386/penny-arcades-decide+o+tron-8000-knows-what-game-you-should-play-next|title=Penny Arcade's Decide-o-Tron 8000 Knows What Game You Should Play Next|website=[[Kotaku]]|first=Mike|last=Fahey|date=2011-08-22}}</ref> Holkins described it as "[[Pandora Radio|Pandora]] for games".<ref name="Decide-o-tron LIVES"/> By 2014, the decideotron.com website was dead.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://decideotron.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117061039/http://decideotron.com/ |archive-date=November 17, 2014 |title=Chameleon }}</ref>

===Kickstarter===
Penny Arcade has created two Kickstarter projects. The first was the ''Penny Arcade's Paint the Line'' card game which was used as an alternative to pre-ordering it and came with an exclusive comic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/springboard/penny-arcades-paint-the-line-ecg-red-tide|title=Penny Arcade's Paint The Line ECG: Red Tide|date=July 11, 2012 |publisher=[[Kickstarter]]|access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://geek-news.mtv.com/2012/07/03/penny-arcades-paint-the-line-puts-a-new-spin-on-card-gaming/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707092116/http://geek-news.mtv.com/2012/07/03/penny-arcades-paint-the-line-puts-a-new-spin-on-card-gaming/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 7, 2012|title=Penny Arcade's 'Paint the Line' Puts a New Spin on Card Gaming|publisher=[[MTV#Internet|MTV.com]]|first=Matt|last=Morgan|date=2012-07-03}}</ref> The second was entitled ''Penny Arcade Sells Out'' and was intended to replace advertising revenue with crowd funding. The leaderboard ad on the home page of Penny Arcade would be removed if the minimum goal of $250,000 were reached, whereas the entire site would become completely ad-free for a year at $999,999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575109064/penny-arcade-sells-out|title=Penny Arcade Sells Out |publisher=[[Kickstarter]]|access-date=2012-07-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/10/penny-arcade-aims-to-go-ad-free-with-kickstarter-campaign-we-want-to-sell-out-to-you/|title=Penny Arcade aims to go ad-free with Kickstarter campaign: "We want to sell out to you"|magazine=[[PC Gamer]]|first=Tom|last=Senior|date=2012-07-10}}</ref>  The reality web series described as "our version of America's Next Top Webcomic" titled ''[[Strip Search (web series)|Strip Search]]'' arose from the $450,000 stretch goal.

Krahulik and Holkins created a comic strip which compares the [[7th generation consoles]] that appears in the December 2006 issue of ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine.<ref name="Wired comparison">{{cite magazine|date=December 2006|title=I Come in Peace, With Console Advice|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/play.html?pg=5|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|volume=14|issue=12}}</ref>