In 2018, Square Enix released a new game called Octopath Traveler, which introduced a revolutionary new graphics format ...

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

It's an aesthetic that indie developer Polygon Bird wholly commits to with sprites that show the individual pixels rather than the smoothed-out botch jobs in modern re-releases. Even the menu fonts ...

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 ...

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: ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...