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2025 is the year of the ninja, if the upcoming games lineup is anything to go by. Sega's Shinobi is back in style from the ...
Despite being squarely centered on martial arts mastery, Forestrike is a pixel-art 2D roguelike that has more in common with a chess match than an action game, as you repeat encounters until you ...
Sonic Superstars, the new 2D Sonic platformer from Sega coming out later this year, looks a lot like a fresh take on the famous blue blur. It ditches pixel art for a cartoony new visual style that ...
‘We look at the pixel art – it’s great – but when we think about 10 to 20 years in the future, we don’t think it’s going to be a viable art style or presentation for our players ...
“A Dark Souls 3 - 2D pixel art Metroidvania was pitched to Bandai Namco [around] 6 years ago,” he said. “This is now finally out of NDA, so enjoy the visuals created back then.” ...
How HD-2D came about The seed for HD-2D came in the mid-2010s when pixel art games were at the peak of popularity with titles like Shovel Knight and Axiom Verge. Around the same time, developers ...
Animal Well - the 2D pixel art adventure from developer Billy Basso - will launch this May. Sharing the news, Basso said he "couldn't be prouder of how the game turned out" following seven years ...
Gorgeous 2D pixel art metroidvania Noreya launches on Steam Noreya The Gold Project is a beautiful pixel-art platformer with a huge skill tree and non-linear exploration that just left early access.
"Our background is in tight, 2D pixel art action, and we've been careful to maintain the responsiveness of this," producer and designer David Fenn explained. "The world is fully explorable, and is ...
Studio PICO, a two-man developer based in Japan, is currently in the early stages of development on Grand Exile, a pixel art 2D action and shooting game hybrid planned for release on Switch and PC.