Pixels is the worst
The most old-school thing in PIXELS is the misogyny.
pixel art
A pixel artist renounces pixel art
The “pixel tax” comes to collect.
Manifesting destiny with Westerado: Double Barreled
A game more Blazing Saddles than Blood Meridian.
Therefore promises "interactive philosophy," dreamy pixel art
What’s initially so captivating about Therefore is how the music and art style blends together. Composer Sergio Cuesta’s incidental piano score plays with atonality in a way that’s reminiscent of the impressionist compositions of Claude Debussy, or Erik Satie: simple and pretty, but slightly hauntin
Crossing Souls wants to make you feel like a kid again
A sweet, scary ode to childhood.
A look at Hyper Light Drifter, one of 2015’s most beautiful games
Why does it look so great? Short answer: Miyazaki.
The Deer God makes you relate to hunter and hunted
Finding karma deep in nature.
Street Art and the 8-Bit Cool
The 8-bit aesthetic is not a fast-track to relevance.
Woah Dave! is simple, compulsive and sinister
The arcade as muse.
Eitr’s trailer recalls the pitch-black world of Diablo II
The Gothic masterpiece that was Diablo II, the one that I willingly gave away much of my youth to, was perhaps most notable because of its atmosphere. It was a shadowy world, brown lands fading into a black background, full of occult sacrifices, lo-fi gore and legions of grotesque demons. Horror loo
The demo of Octopus City Blues is both Kafkaesque and charming
And filled with puns.
Impressionism goes goth in the roguelike Children of Morta
Well, this is … unexpected. Just yesterday I wrote about the influx of absurdly, lushly animated dark-fantasy pixel-art games, and here comes Children of Morta, which is like the apotheosis of the form. Its two-minute trailer starts with something I’ve not really seen before: a landscape which seems
Gorge, a food-horror JRPG, gives videogames something to chew on
Food: apparently it’s more than just a health potion.
Rain World explodes with more slugcat .gifs
Rain World is part of an explosion over the past few years of games that express, through their pixel art, a very personal sort of fantasy. Along with Hyper Light Drifter, Witchmarsh, The Deer God, and Titan Souls, it sees pixel art not as cute but as ready for subversion, and an excuse to lavishly
This may be the best pixel art being made today
A life in dots.
Monet’s cosy view of nature lives on inside lisa
Impressionism by way of pixels to compose the endearing relaxation of the Great Outdoors.
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Deer God, a game about being majestic as f**ck and one with nature
That deer-in-headlights look is just a facade to mask godliness.
Still hard as crap, but Titan Souls is burgeoning into a big beautiful game
The Dark Souls de-make becomes its own thing.
This looks like Hyper Light Drifter but darker; here’s hoping it comes out
In the year 20XX, in a TIGSource devlog… Irkalla. It’s a side-scrolling arcade shooter that has the pixel-y charm of Hyper Light Drifter (or your personal favorite upcoming GIF-machine), and all the bleak, gunmetal-grey mech-strewn wastelands you can ask for. Yeah, the pored-over, long-gestating pix
Witchmarsh lets you hack-n-slash while pretending to learn about US history
Massachusetts in the Roaring ‘20s wasn’t just a place for drinking fermented cider beside the bonfire in waistcoats and coattails, apparently. It was also the perfect setting for the pixel-arty, grind-heavy, loot-filled, side-scrolling RPGs Witchmarsh. At least that’s what history according to video
Iconic pop art transformed through 8-bit watercolors
Sorry Campbell’s Soup cans, you didn’t make the cut this time around.
For once, a Lovecraft videogame adaptation done right
Think outside the bug-creatures.
Is Nadia Was Here the most singleplayer game ever?
The surprising message of hope in a hopeless world.
Forget tabletop: Hard Livin’ turns a whole art gallery into a boardgame
It’s the game of life. (But not Life.)