Fortnite may be a storefront with a game attached to it, but it’s my storefront with a game attached to it. Let’s break down all the cool islands, items and extras available today with Fortnite’s International Women’s Day event running from the 7th (okay, I’m a tad late, sue me) to 14th March at 8 pm ET (1 am GMT).

Item Shop Swag: Much like the pride month extras from last year, you can get 4 free items from the in-game shop.

• Per Aspera ad Astra Wrap
• Heart Sign Emote (a synced emote where the heart grows as you do it with another player)
• I Am Fearless Lobby Track(music by Emmy Meli)
• Hop and a Wink Spray

No Man is an Island… Except Sappho’s Husband:  From 9th March at 10 am ET (3 pm GMT) to 15th March at 9:59 am ET (2:59 pm GMT), players can access the Redcap Village Creative Hub, as authored by ‘dummblond’. This village hub will feature some of the best worlds and games made by women alongside a Discover page.

eRena Competitions! The women of Fortnite (from pro players to content creators) will compete in Women of the eRena (WOTE) starting Sunday 10th April at 5 pm ET (10 pm GMT). There will be three WOTE tournaments, each earning players the opportunity at a $75,000 cash prize!

Here’s to hoping Mortal Kombat gets in on the action one day with a Women of Kombat eRenas (WOKE). I mean, Jade has already been shown to be a girlboss feminist in the past (and MK11), get to it NetherRealm!

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Mortal Kombat! B’du, b’du, b’du, b’du, du du du- FOIGHT!

Mortal Kontext: Okay, so I imagine even most of the boomer-shooter crowd know the main gist of things. The warriors of Earthrealm have to defeat the big bad warriors of Outworld lead by Shang Tsung and Shao Cartilage in a tournament, otherwise it’ll cause The End Of The World! Cut to last 3 recent Mortal Kombat games where the bad guys had the bright idea of exploiting a loophole in the divinely-mandated Geneva Conventions and fights being more story-driven outside of the standard tournament layout, so now that leaves us questioning what kind of story Mortal Kombat 12 will tell next.

And those who read my 5 Brilliant Gaming Stories may remember me touching on Jade and Kotal Cartilage’s relationship as being oddly nuanced for a game about increasingly absurd methods of disembowelment and ultraviolence to a degree that would make the Marquis De Sade blush… Well, turns out Jade was always a girlboss feminist since the early days of the series if this handy-dandy clip is anything to go by! +5 Woke Points to you NetherRealm!

Where Could The Story Go? Based on Mortal Kombat 11’s ending (psst! You can get it with a Scorpion movie bundle right hyaa), things seemed relatively open-ended with the exception of that general multiversal timetravel shenanigans. MK11 largely saw handfuls of old-school characters being brought to the “current” timeline, so another logical step would be pulling an Endgame-level reversal of all the older “karacters” having to go back to the past like Samurai Jack! Or maybe a Kill Bill-meets Back To The Future riff depending how things shake out. Alternatively, some theorised the next game will be a prequel or soft-reboot retelling of the first game.

What About The Fight Fighters! While the exact roster hasn’t been released yet, the game is said to feature some 50 ‘Kombatants’, which is a relief to me considering how tiny MK X was. Personally, I’d like to see a Mortal Kombat Ultimate set-up featuring all the main casts from every game!

An Unlikely Unhinged Ask: Mr Boon? Johnny T? Bryke? Incredibly unlikely, but on the 0.01% chance this makes it’s way to you… Avatar Legend of Aang/Korra ‘Kombatants’. Would it work out!? Could it work out? I know it’s technically “a kids show”, but if PUBG can crossover with Baby Shark, maybe one day we’ll see Toph pulling a Melon Lord-inspired Friendship, or Katara chastising Skarlet for her own use of blood bending! Think of the possibilities.

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Apex Legends. Cokemilk Champions! Racing too? Hell yeah bro!

Gran Turismo 7. Vrewm. Shooty shooty bang-bang? Doom

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Sifu happens to be the first ever game I’ve taken the risk of pre-ordering for, so needless to say, I’m glad that I have been getting a lot from the experience!

There are parts of the game I want to discuss in a (potentially) upcoming video essay, so consider this an introductory companion-piece. Part review, part shoving politics into my champagne!

Synopsis: Sifu is a Martial-Arts game on PlayStation 4, 5 and PC, developed by Sloclap. The story draws on old-school Kung-Fu and revenge action cinema like Kill Bill and Bruce Lee films. Your character’s sensei is slaughtered by 5 former students for unknown reasons. You’re also killed, but not before grasping a mystical medallion that brings you back to life! The rest of the game sees you uncovering the mystery of why your master was killed while also hunting the 5 ex students for some of that sweet sweet revengeance!

Gameplay Review: As is also the case with penises, rock candy, Dark Souls and supersized McDonalds meals in Illinois, it may be hard to get through, but feels amazing the more you take in! Based on Absolver‘s combat system, your character starts off with a fistful of combos, dodging techniques and counter-attacks. You also have a sweeping kick for channeling your inner John Kreese, plus a pushing punch which opens enemies up to dash-attacks or getting slammed into walls for damage.

The game has a good mixture of simple weaker enemies and stronger more defensive types. Most of the time, you can tell how quickly an enemy will go down based on their health and posture bar size, but spend too much time mashing at one grunt and you’ll get clocked by another enemy punch unless you dodge or counter in time. In addition, using the same couple of combos or ‘cheesing’ is a quick path to a game over screen, encouraging you to be mindful and really make you feel like you’ve earned your black belt status.

The death system is also well-implemented: Due to a permadeath mechanic, you can’t permanently unlock certain skills unless you purchase them multiple times with experience points from your past fights. I recommend specking into weapon durability and focus regains from dodging. The more you fill your focus bar, you can perform powerful strikes that are essential for damaging and stunning bosses.

Cool story bro, what about Sifu’s feminism? I’ll save the more specific parts on feminism in Sifu for the video (finished the first script draft last night), but until then, I will share a handful of takeaways, be it for good-faith readers or the “SJW’s want to ruin video games” crowd that will most definitely dub me ‘Manita Sarkeesian’ if this piece blows up on 4Chan or the like.

The Feminist Takeaway: Don’t talk about feminism, talk about feminisms! Sure, you’ve got your ‘men are trash’, ‘white woman’s instagram‘ and sex-negative schools of feminism, but on the other side of the coin, you have sex-positive, anti-racist and pro-LGBT+ forms of feminism.

But is Sifu Feminist? In my opinion, yes, but in a way that brings up a little ludonarrative dissonance (aka, when something in gameplay causes a disconnect between that and an in-game story), but also in a way that makes that dissonance thematically rich to the story in a different way! I’ll save specifics on that for my video!

For jokes, I could say “you can play as a guy or a girl, plus you can beat up strong lady enemies among dudes too, so equal rights, equal fights, no?”… Regardless of my thoughts alone, engaging with and discussing media through a lens of feminist theory can help reveal more about the art we enjoy and the world we live in that gave it to us.

For more interesting watches on ludonarrative and feminist critique of action films, have a butcher’s at these videos by Hbomberguy and Innuendo Studios respectively.

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Bioshock? Collection. Chemstunned? Erection!

“Annie, get your gun, gal“! Her mech appeared. “Shooty bang-bang, y’all”!

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