- Cool Ghost’s Matt Lees muses on difficulty and atmosphere in relation to one of this year’s IGF Award nominees, Hyper Light Drifter - one of the site’s Best Games Ever. In a bonus video, he and Quintin Smith play through it a co-op mode.
- The ever-fabulous Vox explores how female characters simply existing and doing stuff became a modern feminist statement. We call this normalizing, and it's important to do for women and people of color and LGBTQ+. This is why we fight so hard about representation in every day life and in tv and movies.
For today's musical hit,we have Janelle Monae's "Electric Lady"
Today's critical rolls: who is your favorite fictional female character that does stuff and is feminist because of it?
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