Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Think pixel art is only for simple 2D games? Not necessarily. Modern hardware and a bit of technical wizardry allows today's game developers to give 2D game art the illusion of depth, but many people ...

The iPhone remains the undefeated champion of the mobile photography segment, raising the benchmark with every successive generation. However, it was the Google Pixel that challenged the supremacy of ...

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The holiday season has come to a close, and now we’re stuck with the frigid temps of a dreary, gray […] This post, "New Nintendo Switch games launching in January 2026," first appeared on Outrun ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

If you only have a few free hours to play each week, I invite you to check out these ten Metroidvanias that respect your time ...

We trace the history of the Metroidvania genre to find the best representative from every console generation.

DialogueFlow2D is a lightweight, modular, and flexible 2D dialogue system for Unity — perfect for story-driven games, RPGs, and visual novels. It offers full control over dialogue text, speaker ...

There's been a long history of war titles in the world of videogames, and whether you're fighting in WW2 or you've taken to a future battlefield, one truth remains: war never changes. From boots on ...

Standard scaling often fails to sample AI-generated pixel art due to inconsistent sizes and non-square grids. This tool automatically detects the optimal grid and delivers perfectly aligned, ...