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Women are awesome. Obviously. But for some reason, developers are reticent to give women larger roles in their games. The females we see most often are overly sexualized, at the mercy of men, and when they happen to be solid characters, the game doesn't allow you to play as them!! So who ARE the best female characters in games? Watch the episode and find out!!

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Female Characters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsyt__ybb8M

0:50
https://twitter.com/GameAnim/status/476638349097058304

2:21
Cute Girls Play Videogames: Mortal Kombat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW9tqPMIgaw

3:06
Kids playing video games in new house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT7_pRevik


Jennifer Hale Profile
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/15/voicebox-360

Sources:

http://www.bizreport.com/2014/04/nearly-half-of-gamers-are-women.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/women-in-film-video-games_n_4548558.html
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Comments

Abraxian Absolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3B2s-wswcM&google_comment_id=z12mxpcjpyalclnja04cfbvxax2gfbaiclo0k

Corwin Kelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3B2s-wswcM&google_comment_id=z12mxpcjpyalclnja04cfbvxax2gfbaiclo0k

Sour Sorolla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3B2s-wswcM&google_comment_id=z13etbnojqroslszk04cc1erbtyswrmidz00k

Crystal3lf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3B2s-wswcM&google_comment_id=z13zzlqjtyrwipi3u23ntrfixuj4tzinh

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MUSIC:

"Oh Damn!" by CJVSO
https://soundcloud.com/downpitched/cjvso-oh-damn

"Digital Sonar" by Brink


"Mindphuck" by Known To Be Lethal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-cyr7l9yBw

"After Hours"


"Lakes" by Chooga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8hnsQc9ST0

"Beautiful Days" by Extan
https://soundcloud.com/extandnb/beautiful-days

"Spectrum Subdiffusion Mix" by Foniqz
https://soundcloud.com/subdiffusion/foniqz-spectrum-subdiffusion

"Good Way Song" by Electronic Rescue


"Alice y Bob" by Javier Rubio and Parsec
https://archive.org/details/escala19_vvaa_escala_no_uniforme

"Sleet" by Kubbi
https://soundcloud.com/kubbi/kubbi-sleet

"Toaster" by Kubbi
https://soundcloud.com/kubbi/toaster

"Patriotic Songs of America" by New York Military Band and the American Quartet
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/New_York_Military_Band_and_the_American_Quartet/Edison_Amberol_457/cusb-cyl3890d

"Lets Go Back To The Rock" by Outsider
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/4402/outsider

"Run" by Outsider
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/4402/outsider

"Fame" by Statue of Diveo
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/352814/statueofdiveo

"Freedom Weekends" by Statue of Diveo
https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/352814/statueofdiveo

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And thanks to Iain Andrews for the use of his photos in the background: http://enwandrews.tumblr.com/

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