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.

Sometimes us filmmakers get bored with our day to day lives…. however, the people that refuse to get bored make random videos about their favorite video game characters.

Consumers and investors are both up in arms about Nintendo’s announcement that the 3DS would not be released until spring 2011 and would carry a $300 price tag in Japan. Defcon: Awesome takes a look at the EEDAR’s attempt to calm the hysteria and tries to determine just how badly Nintendo has messed things up.

All the muck that’s fit to rake for the week of August 16th through the 20th. A few announcements in the storm of Gamescom, like Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7, a PS3 Move bundle with a huge 360GB HDD, and UDraw– a Wii peripheral. Also, PS3 Hacked, UK’s RealTime Worlds tanks, and an awesome trailer for Atlus’ forthcoming Catherine.

If you bought some Nintendo stock (NTDOY) the day before E3 started at about $33 a share and sold it the day after E3 ended at about $39-40 a share, you would have made about a 20% profit on your investment in a weeks time. Not too shabby given the current state of the economy. [...]