It's time to settle this debate once and for all, and frankly, the 3D Legend of Zelda games are far superior to the 2D ones, and here's why.

Geod went in to a little more detail on the algorithm in an NESDev thread, saying, "The rendering mechanism is not just based on [an] 8x8 [pixel sprite] tile, but based on "shape"—[a] meaningful ...

In this third part of our deeper look at 3D game rendering, ... To us, a texture is a flat, 2D picture that gets applied to the polygons that make up the 3D structures in the viewed frame.

Since Octopath, Square Enix has used this aesthetic in three more games, the most recent being its remake of 1994’s choose-your-adventure RPG Live A Live, which is landing on PS4. PS5, and PC on ...

But my fondest memories of a Terminator game is the 2D adaptation of the original movie for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in America), which went all-out trying to recreate the grimy and gory ...

I'm an absolute sucker for rendering tricks like this, especially when a developer commits to them as a full-on backbone of their game⁠—see also the indie FPS Hellscreen, where you can see ...

A strange new product appeared on Steam last week: a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that translates the 2D pixel graphics of classic 8-bit games into 3D worlds built with voxels. It’s ...

Back in the 2D era, effectiveness of water rendering would vary from game to game, but the fundamental concept was based on the same technique: hardware registers would be manipulated during the ...

NVIDIA's game-changing DLSS 4 tech expected to launch with GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs (duh) Minecraft's new Vibrant Visuals update will transform the look of the game Newsletter Subscription ...