Ashish Walia is a writer, animator, designer, and, most importantly, a gamer. He's a part of Valnet, Inc, writing for TheGamer.com and GameRant.com. He's a Bachelor of Arts and is very keen on doing ...
The Legend of Zelda series may be blowing minds with games like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, but its humble beginnings as a top-down 2D action adventure RPG are still widely beloved to ...
Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...
How do you make old games attractive to modern players? Masaaki Hayasaka, the producer of the remake, explains the magic behind the HD-2D style. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and ...
Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...
If you uploaded a Super Mario Maker course with cheap hidden blocks, unfair enemy placement, or just overall haphazard design, I'm sorry to say that Nintendo might have judged you for it. During ...
In 2018, Square Enix released a new game called Octopath Traveler, which introduced a revolutionary new graphics format ...
What are the best 2D Mario games? We rank every side-scrolling platformer in the Nintendo mascot's history.Super Mario’s 40-year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little ...
Dimensionality has been in the news this week. Autodesk announced it was pushing 3D graphics in mobile games with the release of Maya LT 2014, while Nintendo revealed the 2DS and Unity announced its ...
Jenni Lada: What was it like to work on Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake after working on Octopath Traveler? How did your experience on it shape your approach to Dragon Quest? Masaaki Hayasaka: I ...
Though the genre has since exploded, 2D platforming arguably owes its start to Super Mario. And even though it’s been 40 years since the first game came out, few 2D platformers have risen to the level ...
Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...