In other news, 2015 has been delayed till 2016. When asked Chronos, the father of time, said "we need more time to polish the infinite number of events possible that year and ensure it is as visceral an experience as possible."

But then I get the fun of organizing and sorting and ordering them! That's just added joy.

I've been pretty happy with their 2014 DLC. Mario Kart 8's packs are insane value for money considering the courses, vehicles and characters you get. Hyrule Warrior's is sanity compared to the DLC offered for the nearest comparable game on the system, Warrior's Orochi 3 Hyper (It has BGM music DLC!)

I've got the EU-exclusive Bayonetta 2 First Print Edition ordered with both games and the Book of Angels case & artbook.

I tend to follow the hardware and software numbers for Japan because it's much easier to track than getting the numbers for NPD or Chart-Track for the US and EU.

My shelving unit demands more physical copies of games. I cannot disobey it.

The only question I'd really have for him is why Lucina, Falco, Sheik, Toon Link and to a lesser extent Doctor Mario all have the same Final Smash as Marth, Fox, Zelda, Link and Mario. (Doctor Mario's fireball animation is changed to a pill barrage.)

That's the worst thing? Figures? Tame.

Ballmer has some advice for you.

The console market is pretty boned in Japan. It's been rare to see any console go over 10k/week lately.

Developers? Developers?! Developers? DEVELOPERS!

That world ain't right.

Fantasy Life and Hyrule Warriors for retail games, KickBeat for Digital games.

I need to repent for skipping out most of the 7th console generation. I dabbled with the dark forces of PC gaming and I think the lack of a Puyo Puyo Tetris localization is SEGA's way of punishing me.

It'd be appreciated. It's a really weird case, the hype train fell apart for that game shortly after release and it's been delayed for a long time in gaming, and is coming out close to the rumoured launch of Smash Bros for Wii U.

Sort of related, but will Kotaku do a review of the Wii U version when Ubisoft finally throw it out into the cold, dark night?

Yeah, I find that with my nephew as well. He will go on at length about some aspect of the trading card game that I just can't follow as I'm not familiar with it.

I'd pay to see a Lars von Trier film of Tetris done to the doctrine of Dogme 95. Someone furiously rotating household objects as they try and fit everything together, driven by some inner turmoil or fervent belief in the power of lines of objects.

I loved both the Archimedes and the Amiga. I got my start with the Sinclair Spectrum and moved onto a C64, an Amstrad PCW8512 then a 486 with Windows 95. School was the domain of Acorn stuff.

Yeah, the Micro was present in lots of schools, as well as its RISC-ier brother the Archimedes. Hell, we were still using them in high school as they had only just started to introduce Windows 98 machines then.