Tim is a game collector. He hoards the retro, cherishes the classic, and stashes the forgotten. This is his story.

Everybody plays games for different reasons. Most guy gamers think it’d be awesome if every chick out there played video games; sadly, they don’t. DEFCON:AWESOME’s PopCulturePanda lets us in how she fell out of love with video games and how she’s making amends with that past and picking up the controller again nowadays.

DEFCON:AWESOME catches up with Global Game Jam’s SPSU location in Atlanta, Georgia. Ranking second in the US, to New York, SPSU’s location pumped out some impressive games in the 48 worldwide Global Game Jam organized by the IGDA. the Global Game Jam has held annually and attracted over 6000 participants in 44 countries, whose combined efforts created around 1500 games this year.