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WWE’s Making Both Good and Bad History with Women in First Ever Matches

Last month on June 18 the women of the WWE made history by competing in the company’s first ever women's Ladder match. Men have been competing in WWE Ladder matches since 1992 when Bret Hart fought Shawn Michaels for the Intercontinental Championship. When the Ladder match was introduced in the WWE, it was unimaginable that the company would ever feature women competing in such a match—that’s because at the time the WWE didn't even have an active women's division

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Interview: Rhianna Pratchett Talks Tomb Raider and How to Make Video Games Better

A lot has been made of the modern Lara Croft, and her evolution from her origins as a pioneer for female protagonists in games. And it’s the writers behind the new games who have shaped this reimagined Lara, particularly Rhianna Pratchett, the lead writer for the 2013 Tomb Raider and its sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider. We reached out to Pratchett to ask her about her work on the Tomb Raider franchise and her writing process as a whole.

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Women Steal the Show at Wrestlemania 32 With a New Title and the Match of the Night

“[It’s] so exciting just because 10 years ago people called the women's match a bathroom break. People paid for tickets to see that match, and I had to give them the show of my life. That's exactly what I'm going to do at WrestleMania, too. I'm here to make a name for myself, and leave a statement.”

The Rock’s Return to WWE Draws Criticism for Sexist Treatment of Female Talent

The WWE must be happy after their last Monday night show of January brought them their highest rating in nearly a year. Probably no small contributor to that was a surprise return by one of the WWE’s biggest stars ever: The Rock.

Interview: Undertale Game Creator Toby Fox

Undertale was made on a budget of just over $50,000 thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign. And yet at this year's Game Awards, Undertale was nominated in three different categories, including Best RPG, where it sat beside games like Fallout 4, Bloodborne, and The Witcher 3 and their budgets big enough to make movies on. It feels like there has to be some explanation to crack for how some humble looking indie game could become so popular basically overnight.

Interview: Shantae Co-Creator Matt Bozon Discusses the Series’ Future & Shantae in Super Smash Bros.

"The most common reaction to Shantae back in the '90s was 'Hey, great looking game. But who do the guys play as?' It felt like our work was being dismissed for no good reason, and it made no sense to me. But eventually I came to understand that these people genuinely knew their markets, and that the game would probably not sell, and that was even more irritating. So, I feel like Shantae had to exist, even if it was just to reach out and see if there was an audience reaching back."

Interview: Them’s Fightin’ Herds’ Lauren Faust and the Mane6 Team on Their Fighting Game

"I try to stay away from projects that treat kids as if they are too dumb to understand even slightly complex concepts, and I stay away from projects that put too much of an importance on the characters behaving in the way parents WANT children to behave rather than how actual young human beings behave ... So I guess that treating children like they are intelligent not only attracts them, but attracts older kids and adults as well."

“Women’s Wrestling is Back”: WWE Says Viva la “Divas Revolution”

Wrestling really can be great. It’s like watching a live-action superhero comic where all the strength and athleticism is real (albeit scripted). Then there’s the not so great. Like my dad coming home just in time to catch a match between two female wrestlers, and me having to explain why these women had decided to settle their grudge in a lingerie pillow fight.