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.

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.

Rumors are circulating that Apple is currently negotiating the buyout of Handseeing Information Technology, a Chinese game developer that focuses on high end Java-based online and mobile games. Reports of the potential buyout began to surface after Tian Bo, the Deputy Manager of Handseeing, told the Agence France Presse that the two companies have not [...]