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The 7 Best Female Videogame Characters

Inspired by my friend Jess’s lists of the seven best and worst female cartoon characters, I decided to make similar lists but looking at female characters in videogames. I already posted my worst female videogame characters post, so you might want to read that first before continuing to read this post.

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Developer’s Commentary, or How I learned to love Portal even more.

When Valve released Lost Coast for Half-Life 2 they included a surprising little feature to the game, a developers commentary. As you walked through the level there were text boxes which let you hear someone on the Valve development team talk about certain aspects about the Lost Coast level. Most of them were about the High Dynamic Range lighting effects that were being added to the Source game engine, but regardless it was a nice little treat that really let gamers get some understanding into the their thought process in development.

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