Studio PICO has past experience in 2D fighting and shooting action games—including the creation of character sprites for ... An action game with the pixel art visuals of the 80s and 90s ...

Japanese developer Studio Pico has announced pixel art 2D action and shooting game, Grand Exile, for the Nintendo Switch and PC. The game is currently in the early stages of development.

Obviously, computers weren’t nearly as strong as they are today, so the graphics were made up entirely of pixel art moving around ... with 2D sprites in a 3D space, while others split the ...

The history of video games is built on pixel art classics like Super Mario Bros., Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy VI, but the graphical medium has made its way back to the forefront of gaming ...

To help get into that, Siliconera spoke with Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Art Director Kazuko Shibuya, who also worked on the original games, and Producer Toshio Akiyama to talk about the sprites ...

Fascinating research from Microsoft’s Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski of The Hebrew University has produced an algorithm that is remarkably good at turning 8-bit pixel art into shaded ...