Easy access to paint programs has unleashed a torrent of what-if 8-bit imaginary retro video game awesomeness where time-slipped console development meets films from the past, present and future. Personally, I’d like to see a Super Nintendo THX-1138—which would certainly be less ridiculous than the SNES Home Alone cartridge—but I guess I’ll have to do that one up myself. What I did find out was that there were these clever mock-ups, one of which is actually real. Which one?
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Celeste
Simple 2D platformer raises the bar for indie developers

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Move or Die
Customer-friendly game hits the right chords

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Overcooked
Cooking game makes for hot competition

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Hollow Knight

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Night in the Woods

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Rivals of Aether

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DROOLing over Thumper

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Rub gentrification into the faces of the impoverished.
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The Daily Word in Breaking Bad pizza, iPhone hacking and court-mandated circumcision

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, March 11,
and the New Mexico senate has killed an anti-union bill,
Sandia Labs is trying to hack into your iPhone,
Breaking Bad fans keep throwing pizzas on some lady’s NE Heights home,
video game designers still don’t know how boobs work,
members of the University of Oklahoma’s SAE fraternity are sorry for being so racist,
and a Florida woman is running from the law because she doesn’t want her 4-year-old son circumcised.
Have a great day!

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The Daily Word in Levi Chavez, water-swiping Texans and Sarah Palin redux

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Something something Levi Chavez trial something!
The Texans are coming for your water.
Behold, the strange and convoluted saga of the worst video game in the world! And charity marathon!
Sarah Palin is planning on running for senate.
Australia is spying on phone records too. But for really important reasons, like catching litterbugs.
You should be ashamed for giving up on Catch-22 after only 20 pages, but hey, at least you're not alone. Goodreads presents a graphic of the most commonly abandoned books.
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The Daily Word in dead pigs, hobbit holes and Duplos.

A deadly marine killed two.
Crime didn’t pay for some crafty bank burglars.
Mathmatics of mosh pit motion mimics molecular movement.
Why must there always be dicks in video games?
An airship club that might have existed continues to puzzle scholars. (Warning: long story.)
Until someone does this with Duplos, you’ll have to make do with hidden Lego photographs.
I feel sorry for those 16,000 dead Chinese pigs.
I want a hobbit house bonsai tree.
Thieves stole the battery and tires from a crashed vehicle with the victim inside it.
They shoot horses, don’t they?
Happy birthday William Shatner.