10 2D Video Games That Couldn't Survive the Jump to 3D. The box art for Contra: Legacy of War. PS2, PS Vita, Ps5. Guybrush in Escape From Monkey Island. Escape From Monkey Island -1.

Terminator 2D: No Fate was announced out of nowhere earlier in the year, and as far as retro-inspired titles go, it's looking ...

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 ...

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance has been one of my most anticipated games of the year for a few reasons. First off, I love the old Shinobi games and classic Sega. Shinobi III for the Sega Genesis is one of ...

The art of 2D gaming: how Weiling Peng’s art powers mobile gaming hits. Although game mechanics and code are fundamental aspects of games, Weiling Peng demonstrates that art truly makes the ...

Modern games often pay homage to these classic 2D platformers. For instance, games like Shovel Knight and Axiom Verge draw inspiration from the challenging gameplay and pixel art aesthetics of ...

Finally, a mainline game where you get to play as Zelda. This phenomenal twist on the classic 2D Zelda formula brought Breath of the Wild's "see everything, do anything" design philosophy to the ...

Drakantos, an upcoming 2D pixel art MMORPG developed by indie studio Wingeon Game Studios, is holding a closed beta test from ...