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There's a long line of JRPGs whose graphics have aged out with their launch consoles, but these JRPGs have visuals that have ...

While the arrival of HDTV has generally been a boon to the game industry, it's definitely caused headaches for at least one shrinking but still important sector of the industry -- 2D sprite artists.

A new piece of software just released from animation startup Midas Touch Interactive called Midas Creature is designed to add secondary animation to 2d characters – automatically. Midas Touch ...

Daniel “Abysswolf” Oliver’s pixel art reminds me of the Metal Slug games, especially Barret’s look in the Final Fantasy VII piece above. But he’s mostly into JRPGs and recently, he remade the cast of ...

Sprunki is a Roblox experience where you drag various elements onto 2D characters to morph them and give them a unique look. This game has you try out different morphs and learn more about them in the ...