Lisa Jaech, Linda's daughter, joins us this week to talk about a Gamasutra article by Laralyn McWilliams. The article is about whether games could be programmed to gauge our emotional reactions, and respond in kind. That would allow us to have more meaningful emotional interactions with them, instead of carving that space out for ourselves.

A listener also writes in to ask about female Nintendo characters that we want to see in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U! He doesn't really want his daughters to be exposed to Bayonetta this young.

We also talk free games for PlayStation and Xbox this month, and what holiday releases we're looking forrward too. And Simone yells. A lot.