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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.

Game Developer Magazine’s annual Game Career guide is out. It surveys the industry and game schools and delivers this information in a digestible and informative way. DEFCON:AWESOME summarizes the 108 pages. Every aspiring game designer should check out this great resource.

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.

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. From id Tech 5′s Rage iPhone demo, a $1000 fail on EVE Online, Vanquish eCigs, a PlayStation phone, Black Ops Prestige edition’s RC surveillance car to new footage from Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

There were a lot of great games that came out in the last 12 months, but do we really think that there were 90 games that deserved to be called outstanding? The editors at IGN apparently think so, as they handed out about 90 scores of 9.0 or better in the last 12 months, not [...]

Let the E3 coverage begin! Here are the top ten things I’m looking forwards to seeing at E3 this year. Surprisingly enough, Nintendo looks like it could steal the show for me. Matty

Aw snap!!! The intellectual giants behind defconawesome are going to E3 this year as genuwine media types.  That’s right folks, standards are loose this year, and Matty and Creamy are gonna slide up in that bitch and give it the ol’ ground and pound. Be sure to check us out for all of your E3 [...]

Each month, DEFCON:AWESOME takes all the honey dips from recently released titles, tosses them in a pit of mud, and takes bets as they vie for the position of DEFCON:HOTNESS. Without any ado, DEFCON:AWESOME presents the hottest girls of gaming for April 2010. Matty & Creamy

As many of you may know, film critic Roger Ebert has once again stirred up debate by defending his view that video games can never be art.  This latest punch to the taint of the video game community has caused a number of high brow gamers to rise up out of their mother’s basements to [...]