Game art has come a long way since its origin in systems like the Atari VCS. Fully immersive 3D worlds are typical for video games these days, and even 2D style games look better now than ever. If you ...

In 2018, Square Enix released a new game called Octopath Traveler, which introduced a revolutionary new graphics format ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Like a lot of things, it started with Street Fighter II. I was a kid, not nearly as good at the game as my extremely competitive uncles who would ...

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company’s UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: ...

Just a few minutes into playing the Super Mario Bros. Wonder demo at Nintendo Live 2023 in Seattle, I knew I was playing something special. For the first time in a long time, a 2D Mario game — 2.5D to ...

I remember when I was a child playing Manic Miner and thinking, "This will never not be fun to me." And you know what? Even with my not fully formed, malleable kid brain, I was totally right. Manic ...

Want to follow the Metroid Prime saga in story order? This guide lists all Prime-era games in the correct sequence — from the ...

When I first booted up the free Nintendo Switch 2 demo of The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales shortly after its reveal in the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, I wasn't expecting to love it ...