38. The Boob Episode

Staring at Screens.

This week Dave tells us what it's like developing for the Oculus Rift, Vick finally gets to gush about Saints Row IV, Lisa tells us about Autumn in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and walks us through the four new Nintendo 3DS StreetPass Games, and Joel catches up on the fourth and fifth Professor Layton games and watches a full playthrough of The Last of Us on Youtube.

The topic of discussion this week (which was totally Vick's idea) is gaming culture's apparent obsession with breasts. Once the initial sniggering dies down we look at some female video game character design vis–à–vis Dragon's Crown, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Code of Princess, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Now I know you're gonna want to join this discussion, so go ahead and tweet us @StaringScreens or write to us at [e-mail].

Oh and other that Lightning in the masthead image, here are the characters we referenced in today's episode.

The Dragon's Crown heroines

The Dragon's Crown heroes

Morrigan as she appears in Dragons Age

Jack as she appears in Mass Effect 2

and Solange from Code of Princess

Links

• Jenn Frank — "Tits or GTFO"