Square Enix's latest NieR game merchandise features characters from NieR, NieR: Automata, and NieR Reincarnation as pixel art sprites.

Even today, pixel artists point to Third Strike as the high watermark for sprite animation in fighting games, and for good ... Spellcasting, item use, transformations—they all have bespoke ...

While experiencing a pixel art game that puts a massive amount of detail into every sprite can be an enchanting ... White is usually reserved for important items or walls, which leads to a very ...

It is also working on gradually releasing the items ... the games’ characters in pixel art. While Mega Man and Ghosts ‘n Goblins characters already have established pixel character sprites ...

But in the second half of the last decade, pixel art started coming back in the shape of retro revivals like Contra 4 and Mega Man 9, games that ... who tried sprites of 8 x 8, 16 x 16, and ...

The history of video games is built on pixel art classics like Super Mario Bros., Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy VI, but the graphical medium has made its way back to the forefront of gaming ...

Pixel art has a certain retro appeal to it that harkens back to the 8, 16 and 32 bit console eras. Today though, it is more likely to be found in any number of indie and mobile games and is ...

Pixel Game Maker MV is the latest option. This piece of software is currently in Early Access but allows for gerenating assets, animating sprites, giving objects actions and connecting levels ...