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?
video games
V.27 No.30 | 7/26/2018
Steam Genius
Future’s Made of Virtual Insanity
A very special summer virtual reality sampler
If you’re lucky enough to have an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift hooked up at home, here are a few excellent entry level experiences to explore and thrust your non-virtual friends into.
V.27 No.20 | 5/17/2018
Trnket Studios
Steam Genius
Battle Chef Brigade
Dragon slaying coupled with culinary exploits make for rich and unique gameplay
Battle Chef Brigade's visual novel approach to storytelling keeps the player invested with charming characters to meet and defeat in “Iron Chef” style cook-offs.
V.27 No.13 | 3/29/2018
Steam Genius
Celeste
Simple 2D platformer raises the bar for indie developers
Despite its simple appearance and main character Madeline’s limited moveset, Celeste ends up an incredible experience, which explores the super-difficult platformer genre just as well as it does themes of anxiety and isolation.
V.27 No.5 | 2/1/2018
Steam Genius
Move or Die
Customer-friendly game hits the right chords
It’s just you, your friends and a bevy of largely skill-based mini-games, moving at breakneck pace towards the finish line.
V.26 No.44 | 11/2/2017
Steam Genius
Overcooked
Cooking game makes for hot competition
In Overcooked, you must coordinate your efforts in order to serve up timely hamburgers, soups and other foodstuffs before your customers grow impatient and leave your establishment.
V.26 No.36 | 9/7/2017
Steam Genius
Hollow Knight
Team Cherry’s Hollow Knight combines strong game play with powerful immersion and storytelling, a strong contender for 2017’s game of the year.
V.26 No.25 | 6/22/2017
Steam Genius
Night in the Woods
Night in the Woods is limitlessly funny, never bogged down by its slew of surprisingly well-crafted mini-games or its heart-wrenching moments of sorrow, embarrassment or the macabre.
V.26 No.17 | 4/27/2017
Steam Genius
Rivals of Aether
Rivals of Aether has a charming throwback art style with gameplay that mixes old and new elements in the party fighter genre.
V.26 No.7 | 2/16/2017
Steam Genius
DROOLing over Thumper
This "rhythm violence game" has no narrative and no characters, only concussive gameplay and brooding electronic music, working in harmony with a suite of sinister visual assets.
V.26 No.3 | 1/19/2017
Feature
Bring On the Noobs
Global Game Jam: not just for veterans
Global Game Jam might be one of humanity’s greatest achievements.
V.24 No.53 | 12/31/2015
Event Horizon
Pro or Con?
Friday, Jan 8: Sixth Annual Comic Con
Bring the whole family for three days of events including films, celebrity signings, vendors, cosplay and more.
V.24 No.44 | 10/29/2015
The Daily Word on gentrification, New Horizons, and Dan Webster
A compilation of the many articles written about local fallen APD officer Dan Webster.
The widow of Robin Williams reveals new information about his pre-mortem state.
A free place to live and get paid to play video games is coming to ABQ, to the excitement of many.
NASA's deep space probe New Horizons has passed Pluto and is steering toward our future.
Rub gentrification into the faces of the impoverished.
Donald Trump's new book is, as expected, full of fluff and stuff.
Tarantino faces the backlash from his newest movie with an honest expression of feelings.
A new app puts modern medicine at new doctors fingertips.
V.24 No.10 | 03/05/2015
news
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!
V.23 No.20 | 5/15/2014
Feature
New Mexico's Least-impressive Legend
The end of the first video game boom and E.T.’s final home
In 1983, under cover of darkness, the Atari corporation dumped millions of game cartridges in an Alamagordo landfill. 30 years later, Mike Smith watched a filmmaker dig them up for some reason.
