Pixel Game Maker MV is the latest option. This piece of software is currently in Early Access but allows for gerenating assets, animating sprites, giving objects actions and connecting levels ...

Even today, pixel artists point to Third Strike as the high watermark for sprite animation in fighting games, and for good reason: no other 2D fighter has ever looked quite like it. Alucard’s ...

For a time, pixel art was a necessity ... and the Star Wars arcade game, most games were assembled on grids. Oftentimes, the results were beautiful. We still admire sprite-based games, not just ...

Not all 16-bit games aged like milk, as some of the top titles from the Super Nintendo are just as good now as they were back ...

Our latest demo of the pixel-art, perspective-shifting '90s-set survival horror game Holstin honestly blew us away – and we say that very rarely of any game. If the rest of Holstin is as polished and ...

The duology will complete Square Enix's "Erdrick Trilogy," showcasing what made the early Dragon Quest games so endearing.

As Y2K fashion trends dominate Tik Tok, Stranger Things and the 2010s rush to capitalize on the ‘80s feels like a distant ...

Put simply, HD-2D places 2D, pixel-art sprites within 3D environments that ... timeless — an extension of a classic ’90s video game aesthetic into the present, which deepens and enriches ...

Final Fantasy 6 was fairly recently touched up for the 2023 Pixel Remaster, but apparently that isn't enough for Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake ... when making sprite-based games.

which does some pretty amazing things that we'd love to see applied to more retro 2D sprite-driven games. The big thing is that not only does it draw more of the classic pixel art to fill a modern ...