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 ...

The CRT filter changes everything for the Switch 2’s SNES games: now you can play them the way they were intended ...

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 ...

A CRT TV and retro console would offer the best results, but there are many software tricks to make your favorite old games ...

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 ...

Digital art trends, particularly in gaming, come and go; they capture our attention, then fade away. Weirdcore, on the other ...

"Monkey Island 1 and 2 weren't pixel art games. They were games using state-of-the-art tech and art," he said. "If I had stayed and done Monkey Island 3 it wouldn't have looked like Monkey Island 2.

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 ...

Previous Sonic games with a pixel art style reminiscent of the Genesis games have generally been better-received than their 3D counterparts, with titles like 2017's Sonic Mania and 2018's Sonic ...