‘Creating Characters That Look Like Us’: The Video Game Company Bringing Type 4 Hair Into Gaming

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated September 7, 2023

Since they were invented, video games have received constant upgrades, be it in graphics, new worlds, or expanded options for play. But one thing has been largely missing:“[o]ptions are still pretty limited for creating characters of color, particularly for creating Black characters. And a huge component is a lack of Black hairstyles and textures,” gaming news site Polygon observes.

Unfortunately, this

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