While Atari dabbled with vector graphics by way of Tempest and the Star Wars arcade game, most games were assembled on grids. Oftentimes, the results were beautiful. We still admire sprite-based ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Team Fortress Arcade recreates Team Fortress 2 as an old-school scrolling arcade shooter.

Witness how video game graphics are created and what makes them look so realistic. From simple 2D sprites to fully immersive ...

Publisher Headup Games and developer Allaith Hammed “ZAX” have announced TinyShot, a 2D arcade shooting game due out for PC via Steam in late 2021 and consoles in 2021. “From the minute I ...

Starting in the late ‘70s, SNK pumped out dozens and dozens of vividly detailed 2D arcade games, most of them in the company’s famous multi-game Neo Geo arcade cabinets. While most of the ...

Tyler Wynne (“8BitNerd” on Etsy) re-creates the sprites from popular Nintendo series like The Legend of Zelda and Pokémon (the games he grew up on) as 2D bead work — a good choice for someo ...

Apple's new Sprite Kit development framework aims to make it easier to create 2D arcade style games for both iOS 7 mobile devices and the Mac desktop, and hints at a future strategy for games on ...

Terminator 2D: No Fate ... and 16-bit video games, but with all the potential that funnelling that through modern hardware can produce. There’s really slick animation, the sprite work is really ...

Hipster Whale, the Melbourne-based studio behind the 2014 iOS hit Crossy Road, today revealed their next project: a multiplayer 2D platformer ... a better game. And so when Apple Arcade ...

Solo indie developer RareBreed Makes Games has released the 2D arcade fighter Blazing Strike to Xbox consoles as part of the ID@Xbox program. Blazing Strike was originally revealed as a 2D fighter ...