Watch on YouTube Chrono Trigger (1995, SNES) Shock and surprise: The best RPG of all time has incredible sprite art. Chrono Trigger makes an easy case for being the best-looking game on the SNES ...

The sprites weren’t just large—they were outrageously fluid, with frame counts that made them feel alive in a way most games couldn’t match, even years later.

With several games getting successful HD-2D remakes, it opens the door for the following open-world titles to receive their ...

Confederate Express, a just-announced tactical RPG from indie developer Kilobite, will feature all of my favorite things: permadeath, zombies and 2D sprite graphics. It is almost completely funded ...

The game has been remade in “HD-2D,” a kind of style template within Unreal Engine that Square Enix created, alongside developer Acquire, for 2018’s superb retro RPG Octopath Traveler.

You can now have your cave and eat it too: NIS America recently announced the game's 2D sprite mode, which takes the original, flat characters and enemies and places them in remodeled 3D ...

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.

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 ...

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine to the Mac for the first time. To date, the GameMaker Studio family of ...