Pixel art has become iconic, even though it started as a necessity. In the past, pixels were the building blocks of the video game experience, delighting the eyes of young gamers in the 80s (and ...

From top-down racers to side-scrolling speed demons, the pixel art style brings the racing genre alive in ways that you just can't get anywhere else.

The ‘CRT Effect’ myth says that the reason why pixel art of old games looked so much better is due to the smoothing and blending effects of cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays, which were ...

Giarrusso has been doing pixel art for video games since he started in the industry in 2013. As a specialty, pixel art is sought after and good for finding new work, especially among the indie ...

Pixel art fighting game Pocket Bravery will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam in early 2023, publisher PixelHeart and developer Statera Studio… ...

Pixel art sustained itself remarkably well in many indie games in the last decade, including 2064: Read Only Memories, Dead Cells, Kaze and the Wild Masks, Freedom Planet, and more recently Sea of ...

Replaced reminds of me a lot of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, in a good way. The latter game, from Ninja Theory’s, is a visual spectacle with extremely cinematic combat and gorgeous set pieces ...

Iizuka described the game as an "evolution of the 2D Sonic gameplay," saying that "we 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 ...

The social team at Mojang has started posting pixel art for imaginary Minecraft games lately. They're fun takes on alternative-universe games where Minecraft existed as a pixel-style side-scroller ...

Final Fantasy 7 art director Yusuke Naora has commented on a viral image of an early development screenshot of the 1997 JRPG with pixel art, saying there's an "alternate timeline" where just such ...

Last night, a Reddit user named frigis9 posted six images that featured detailed graphical upgrades to classic MS-DOS computer games such as Commander Keen 6 and The Secret of Monkey Island. The ...