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.

The one where Rachel fucks Ross. Or, that’s what the SpamBots want you to believe!

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.

DEFCON:AWESOME teamed up with guerrilla photographer Imoto to capture the video game cosplayers at this year’s annual Anime Weekend Atlanta convention. From cross-dressing Mario Bros to (possibly the most obscure Assassin’s Creed character) Kadar, there were some really impressive efforts this year.

Steam Punk Guitar Hero axe snapped at DragonCon 2010.

Dragon*Con is a huge convention for geek culture in Atlanta. One weekend every year, over 30K people gather in costumed celebration of their favorite fictional characters. DEFCON:AWESOME was on the scene and gathered a gallery of gaming related awesomeness.

While looking for the best movies out there about video games, the editors at Defcon: Awesome came across a number of hilariously bad clips and movie trailers. Not wanting to keep you in the dark on all the cheesy awesomeness, we figured we’d let you reap the fruits of our youtube labor by breaking things [...]

Each month, DEFCON:AWESOME takes the hottest female characters from last month’s games, scours the internet for fan art and cosplayers, distills all of this hotness down and delivers it to you. StarCraft II’s Kerrigan, Monkey Island 2′s Elaine Marley, Persona 3′s Mitsuru, & Arc Rise Fantasia’s Leslie battle it out to see who is crowned the Hottest Game Girl of July 2010.

What do Shark Week, Fable III chickens, Batman, and Guillermo del Toro have in common? They’re all part of the best of video game news from this last week. DEFCON:AWESOME has spent the last week trawling the internet, bookmarked a bunch of the hottest and coolest articles, and packaged them up for you in this weekly news recap.