Charlie Brooker: How Videogames Changed the World on Channel 4 right now

Have a look at this! So far all I see is Charlie Brooker and a bunch of talking heads saying things we might take for granted but it'll surely be more satisfying on the games front than the Late Late Toy Show was last night.

...Holy shit I know Robert Florence lost weight but just look at him! He's a completely different man.

EDIT: Watching with subtitles and they're spelling "computer programme" instead of "computer program". I kind of like this.

EDIT: The show's been uploaded here officially: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWbr5z1Uu_U

Horray for simultaneous distribution!

Late Late Toy Show 2013

I got a brief glimpse of a Mario Pez dispenser. Oh well...

Ryan briefly mentioned the console wars being in full force between the Playstation 4 and the Xbox before featuring two girls with smart tablets. Oh well...

They showed all the new home consoles. However, just like last year they just featured them as some kind of a gadget. The PS4 had some kind of robot camera thing, the Wii U had Disney Infinity (in your face Skylanders I suppose) and then it was the Xbox with soccer and then some soccer celebrity appeared. Oh well...

Now for the highlight of the evening!— the ads came on and there was one for Super Mario 3D World! The game came out today so hey, everybody wins!

3DS special Space Harrier and Super Hang On are on eShop now

Hideki Kamiya's favourite. I had a look at these two in the eShop. There weren't any videos, only screenshots where I could see the two games in 3D. Not quite sure about trying them out. They have the Sega Mega Drive logo and everything. Might research them first.

Link Between Worlds has text that's easy to read!

Skyward Sword and Wind Waker 3D had really horrible text presentation. The reddish orange text on the keywords just wasn't legible most of the time and the rest of the text didn't display properly when shown against certain backgrounds. This was particularly appalling in Skyward Sword.

Link Between Worlds has lovely text presentation of a good readable size AND you can press A to fill the box quickly while it's scrolling.

Nice to see Nintendo back on form with this! :)

Now the Wii U is auto downloading Karaoke

Here I was thinking Wii Sports Club was being cheeky.

Folks, be careful about what your Wii U does on the Internet. It could be inappropriate to your interests.

Exploring Hyrule with rented items

Since it's Winter here in Ireland I have to take frequent breaks from playing Link Between Worlds because my hands get too cold to play—so let's blog!

The rental system is beautiful. I got the hookshot, bombs, hammer and other things that enable me to explore the big wide world of Hyrule with ease(apart from the bad guys). Like other Zelda games it's so much fun to find and navigate caves and mazes for treasure. There's a damn fun chicken avoiding sub-game as well.

I've yet to fully judge the impact this has on the plot — I haven't progressed since I started renting — but my belief is that enabling adventure without having to earn it through exposition should be encouraged as much as possible.

Aonuma's Mii coming through SpotPass lately (playing Link Between Worlds)

Be sure to connect online to get Aonuma's Mii again through SpotPass. The last time he was available was when E3 was on. We got nearly the entire company that week!.