I was doing some research today for an article, and wondered where that file went, and how one could view it, since the full system.log contains so many entries that it can be hard to wade through. I found a forum thread from 2008 which explains that you can see what used to be in console.log by running syslog -C in Terminal. You can also run this command to save these entries in a file, then view them in vim: syslog -C > /tmp/console.log; view /tmp/console.log. Or, if you simply want to save this information in a text file, you can do this: syslog -C > /Desktop/console.log.
While this isn't new, it's good to know, if you're looking through logs in Console in search of information.

