Something is enduring about pixel art that keeps drawing us back. A handful of coloured squares shouldn’t have much power, yet somehow they carry stories, emotions, whole worlds. Retro visuals were ...

Pixel art is a stylistic choice that evokes nostalgia and emotions in modern indie games. Games like Balatro and Celeste showcase how pixel art enhances storytelling and depth. Pixel art in games like ...

Playing Chucklefish's Eastward is like coming home to a place I've never been before. After its 2018 reveal, I was immediately drawn to the game’s Zelda-like adventure elements, unusually colorful ...

Blake Reynolds is an artist who works at indie studio Dinofarm Games. After launching grid-based tactical game Auro on iOS and Android, Reynolds found that a significant number of people were calling ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

About half a year ago, Sony and Microsoft started trying to convince people to spend several hundred dollars on powerful new consoles. Generational shifts don’t happen that often in the video games ...

Just ranting because I like old-school 2D games - it's just that I want them in high res. For me when a game looks like something I can be playing on my SNES or Sega Genesis emulator, it's an ...