When Square Enix released Octopath Traveler in 2018, they took a giant leap with the new HD-2D style they created specifically for this game. The best way to think about it is to imagine taking ...

The characters from Mario's team use sprites from 1985's Super Mario Bros., including Mario, Luigi, Peach and Bowser, while Sonic's team features sprites from 1992's Sonic the Hedgehog 2, such as ...

The 3DNES project, as the name implies, extends the 2D sprites of the NES into the Z axis, letting players rotate the camera around to see the sides and back of the formerly flat sprites.

Fully Illustrated's Michael Heald has revealed that 2D fighting title Wulverblade has a chance of coming to the Wii U.. The game - which is like a mixture between Golden Axe and Final Fight set in ...

Luckily, for fans of that style, Capcom's grasp of 2D design is quite solid--few of Capcom's 2D Mega Man games end up disappointing. ... and they're detailed in the way that only 2D sprites can be.

ModDB user _chillo released a new mod this week that replaces most of the original Doom's 2D sprites with 3D voxels. One might think the change would clash with the game's visual identity, but if ...

Voxel Doom is a new graphics mod for the original Doom that turns the original 2D sprite-based enemies into fully-3D models. Now, replacing enemies with 3D version might sound like a big departure but ...