It's no longer about technical compromise and limitations, but a flourishing art form inextricably tied to video games. Over the past decade, pixel art has experienced a renaissance thanks to the ...

Pixel art is a staple of the industry, going back to the NES era. For more than a decade, this visual style defined the gaming industry, with Nintendo and Sega's early consoles making great use of ...

Pixel graphics have been a mainstay in video games for years, first as a limitation of the hardware, but later revitalized by ...

Image: Nintendo Life. Of all the art styles in video games, none has a stronger chokehold on developers and players alike than the humble pixel.

The six best options for crafting your own pixel art, ... from game Into the Rift . As pixel art has expanded into a popular art form, ... and endless text and video guides are a Google search away.

Video games have never looked better than they do now. While AAA studios push graphical fidelity ever further, other developers realize their imaginative worlds with expressive art styles like ...

"[W]e look at the pixel art — it's great — but when we think about 10-20 years in the future, we don't think it's going to be a viable art style or presentation for our players," Iizuka said ...

As names go, Cast n Chill gives you a pretty explicit idea of what the game is all about. Cast a line and unwind. After sampling a freshly-uploaded Steam demo, I can confirm it’s exactly that, a ...

Much like The Game Kitchen’s Blasphemous (2019) and Blasphemous 2 (2023), the pixel art utilized here is highly detailed, rendering backgrounds with depth like the flaming ruins of the Hayabusa ...