On the heels of Penny Arcade's 15th anniversary, creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik have announced they're scaling back by closing the Penny Arcade News Report video-game news site and ending Penny Arcade TV as an outlet for third-party content. Instead, they'll focus on projects a little closer to the core webcomic.

"... I don’t think I want to 'grow my business' anymore; I sort of want to do the opposite," Holkins wrote on Friday. "And I’m tired, sick to death, of saying 'Maybe Someday' when it comes to the things we really want to make.  So, we’re not going to do that anymore. The next year is going to be a pretty big one, one of the biggest yet; it’s the year the previous fifteen have been leading up to in the literal sense but also in other ways. I think they’re going to be 'big years' from now on, frankly. And it hurts pretty bad, but I don’t know where PATV as a 'channel' for third party shows and The Penny Arcade Report fit into that. We’ll be shutting those things down at the end of this year."

Their Child's Play charity and Penny Arcade Expo will continue -- "We will do everything in our power to ensure that these things outlast us by a wide margin," Holkins assured -- as will the fourth season of the documentary Penny Arcade: The Series. However, there was no mention of Strip Search, the online reality show for webcomics creators.