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In today’s Super Smash Bros. Direct, a couple of new features have been added, with one of these namely the custom move set. However, the move sets are only able to be used in online multiplayer with friends, local co-op mode or single-player mode. We’ll be hearing more about these in the future, so no doubt we’ll see a few in those daily Miiverse posts from the game’s director, Masahiro Sakurai.

Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed that Charizard and Greninja are now in the Super Smash Bros roster for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Charizard and Greninja join Sheik, Yoshi, and Zero Suit Samus. Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS launches this summer while the Wii U version of the game will be coming this winter.

A new Nintendo Direct video revealed numerous details about the upcoming Super Smash Bros. games for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS systems. At the start of the video, series creator Masahiro Sakurai announced that the Nintendo 3DS version of the game is planned for this summer, with the Wii U version targeting winter 2014. Both games will be available in stores and on Nintendo eShop for their respective platform. Sakurai also detailed many of the stages and items in both versions, described the games’ online functionality, revealed a new mode exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS version and announced fan-favourite Greninja, a Pokémon from the Pokémon X and Pokémon Y games, as a new playable character.

• Launch windows: The Nintendo 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. is planned to launch this summer. The Wii U version of Super Smash Bros. is planned to launch in winter 2014.
• Silky-smooth 3D: Most game-play elements of the…

Gogo(s gogo) is gradually adding satellite services in an effort to boost speeds on its highly-congested inflight internet networks. It’s already announced a plan to launch a hybrid ground-to-air and satellite connectivity network this year, but next year it will go all satellite, offering more capacity to its current airline partners as well as support for international flights.

The new service is called 2Ku and it will make use of the extensive network of geo-stationary satellites to beam high-capacity transmissions to planes flying both over land and over the open ocean. At an aviation conference in Europe, Gogo demoed a 70 Mbps downlink connection to an aircraft using a new high-gain antenna design that Gogo CTO Anand Chari said squeezes out twice the performance of any service provided by its in-flight connectivity competitors.

Gogo’s new mechanically steered satellite antenna rig (Source: Gogo)

Compared to the 3.1 Mbps of capacity…