Classic 2D arcade platformers, brawlers and beat ’em ups can have amazing background art—with pixel perfect details and a wonderful color palette. Unlike the similarly awesome 2D fighter backgrounds, ...

Something is enduring about pixel art that keeps drawing us back. A handful of coloured squares shouldn’t have much power, yet somehow they carry stories, emotions, whole worlds. Retro visuals were ...

A few months ago, we took note of 3DNES, a surprising new emulator that automatically adds depth to the flat, blocky pixels of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games. The Web-based beta version ...

Animation and gaming, kindred worlds from the start, have converged in various ways over the decades. The industries have shared writers, designers, characters, franchises. Technology, too: recently, ...

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is taking the open-source software to the third dimension with Cocos Creator 3.0. Cocos is including its first ...