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

Look, we need to talk about something that’s been bugging me for a while now. Square Enix goes and creates this absolutely gorgeous HD 2D art style that makes everyone’s jaws drop, and then what ...

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.

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 ...

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: ...

We’ve all seen video-game sprite art before, but these five artists on Etsy.com depict their favorite 8-bit characters in different ways. One specializes in bead work, another prefers cross-stitch, a ...

Over the past 12 years, Nintendo and Sega have faithfully published their mashup, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, to correspond with the iconic sporting event. The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo will be a ...

Square Enix recently had a special broadcast for the 35th anniversary of the Dragon Quest series, as it revealed a number of upcoming games and remakes. One of the biggest announcements was that ...

Buried in the avalanche of publicity surrounding the release of iOS 7 was the introduction of a new framework, called Sprite Kit, designed to help developers more easily and efficiently build 2D games ...