The personal blog of the Xbox Team's Andre Vrignaud yesterday yielded a fantastic treasure: the heretofore unreleased Xbox 2 Rumor Control strip by Penny Arcade. Says Vrignaud about the strip's origins:

Anyway, after Xenon was greenlit an Xbox-wide meeting was planned where Robbie would detail our plans and get all the internal teams focused on the project. This was to be the internal "big bang" meeting, and we thought it would be pretty cool to see if Penny Arcade might be willing to do a strip that we could distribute with the meeting announcement. I'm pleased to say that they agreed to do us this favor, and the strip you see here was the result. The only "guidance" we gave was that we were looking for a strip about Xbox 2 rumors - that's it.

Vrignaud is taking the admirable step of offer the comic at full resolution on his blog, about 1.2 megs of pure joy. You can print this thing out as a poster if you want, or maybe on one of those stitch-your-photo-into-a-throw-blanket things they do at Rite Aid. Mm...Comfy Arcade...

I've taken the liberty of resizing the monster jpg into something lusciously large, but small enough to be readable on monitors, and stuck it after the jump. I suggest you visit Vrignaud and get the fullsizer, though. Especially if you have a nice printer. Eliza Gauger

Unreleased Penny Arcade Xbox 2 Rumors Strip [Ozymandias]

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