Things We Saw Today: The Women Are Too Hard To Animate Game Jam

Created by Maja Celine Maher of Noor Studios and inspired by the recent controversy surrounding Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed IV, this game jam has only one rule: your lead character has to be female. You’ve got four days to submit your game to the Jam on their itch.io website, so hurry!

• As Pajiba notes, the segment about rape culture on college campuses that The Daily Show recently did is hilariously–and uncomfortably–accurate.
• Despite our own Rebecca Pahle’s less-than-enthusiastic review, Transformers: Age of Extinction released to the biggest opening day of the year. (via Comic Book Resources)

What’s the only thing cooler than a Prince Robot IV cosplay from Saga? A Prince Robot IV cosplay with a working television head, just like the one that somebody spotted at HeroesCon a few weeks back. (via Fashionably Geek)

• In the Dracula Untold trailer, Vlad the Impaler is just a beleaguered family man who becomes a vampire out of desperation. So, kinda like Breaking Bad, except with a fanged Tywin Lannister. Rad. (via The Verge)
• Today in Terrifying Internet News: Facebook used a bunch of users’ news feeds to perform experiments on them. (bi Uproxxx)

Over on Tumblr, user badgirlshenanigans has made a Rocket Racoon-themed denim vest for Gaurdians of the Galaxy. We are eternally jealous.

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