How do you make old games attractive to modern players? Masaaki Hayasaka, the producer of the remake, explains the magic ...

We didn’t know that we were going to fondly look back on those days and pray for their recreation to remind us - even if for ...

Modern hardware is more than capable of handling the sprites and bullets thrown on the screen these days, but it's just as ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

With the release of Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy — and the upcoming Live A Live and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake — Square Enix has become synonymous with a new style of retro-inspired ...

WayForward Technologies have shared a new behind-the-scenes video for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, that provides a look at the start of the animation process for the game. The video shows the creation of ...

While the arrival of HDTV has generally been a boon to the game industry, it's definitely caused headaches for at least one shrinking but still important sector of the industry -- 2D sprite artists.

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company’s UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: ...

I remember when I was a child playing Manic Miner and thinking, "This will never not be fun to me." And you know what? Even with my not fully formed, malleable kid brain, I was totally right. Manic ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...