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.

Microsoft and Sony are positioning their motion control devices as innovative and game-changing. Is there more to the story? Perhaps this explains it.