Opening moments of games can often feel long and slow, and may even be boring as the game must teach you how to play it first thing. They’re a necessary evil, but there's a new high bar, as the new ...

Replaced, the 2.5D platformer from Thunderful that’s been eight years in the making, is finally out today. On PC and Xbox, the alt-’80s dystopian side-scroller combines action and environmental ...

Museum heists have a higher calling in Relooted, a video game where players take the repatriation of African artifacts into their own hands. By Zachary Small Thieves made stealing $102 million worth ...

Japanese horror has always held a special place in my heart as a horror fan — there's simply something about J-horror that isn't replicated anywhere else. While I personally think it has something to ...

Joseph Cross, the art director on Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter Marathon, is leaving just months before the game’s release. Cross’s exit comes just after the game was finally announced for a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Based on what we've seen, Replaced is a gaming art director's dream. The long-delayed indie title has lush pixel-art environments, set in a ...

Retro game boom in action: Pixel art indies outsell hyper-realistic giants with nostalgic charm and affordability in 2025. Pixabay, MARROS_Team The retro game boom has positioned pixel art games and ...

A new Art of Fighting game and a Samurai Shodown action RPG are currently in development at SNK, according to the studio’s Joshua Weatherford. “There’s a lot of stuff in the works,” Weatherford said. ...

An AI-generated clip of an old-school first-person RPG is too hard for AI to make into an actual game AI Pixel Art RPG A software engineer who goes by Desimulate on X recently posted a five-second ...

Games would be nothing without the incredible art that goes into the worlds, characters and icons you see on your screens, and every year the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), iam8bit, ...

I don’t think I’ve hungered for a game this year as much as Holstin. This survival-horror immediately caught my eye with its gorgeous pixel art, perspective-shifting gameplay, and eerie Polish setting ...