Whether you follow pixel art, atmospheric horror, or smart systems-driven gameplay, 2026 promises fresh mechanics, emotional ...

Shovel Knight is one of the best-looking games that tries to emulate the NES, and its sequel/spinoff, Shovel Knight Dig, ...

Natalie (She/Her) is a writer and game design enthusiast hailing from way-too-sunny Los Angeles. She loves to dissect game narrative and analyze mechanics, but she doesn’t even want to think about how ...

Pixel art has experienced a revival. In this type of digital illustration, reminiscent of early video games, images are pieced together mosaic-style using tiny blocks of color. Popular games like ...

Imagining a game as beautiful as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 getting even prettier is a tall task, but there’s one thing that does the job: turning it into HD-2D pixel art, the striking art style ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

This is a time lapse of my pixel art / Animation "Frenetic". I edited out breaks and distractions, but otherwise, this is the raw footage from start to finish over several days. (The pop-up windows ...

YUDHO's distinctive animations are hard to describe. Inspired by the long tradition of pixel art, he draws images by hand using minute strokes, and then he animates the compositions to create images ...

Check out the Gamescom trailer for Studio Pixel Punk's action RPG Unsighted--inspired by Zelda, Metroid, and Dark Souls--coming in early 2021. Horizon Zero Dawn pixel fan art is giving us dreams of ...

Here are the main steps you can follow to create a pixel art in GIMP on your Windows PC: First of all, you need to download and install GIMP on your computer if you haven’t already. Go to its official ...

The self-taught pixel artist Kerrie Lake landed a job at Twilio designing a game to teach coding. Lake started her career sketching pixel-art prompts online, where Twilio discovered her portfolio.

Edgar writes evergreen articles for Android Police, which includes lists and guides to your favorite Android games and apps. After getting a degree in programming for Android OS, Edgar realized that ...