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Iconic pop art transformed through 8-bit watercolors
Sorry Campbell’s Soup cans, you didn’t make the cut this time around.
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For once, a Lovecraft videogame adaptation done right
Think outside the bug-creatures.
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Is Nadia Was Here the most singleplayer game ever?
The surprising message of hope in a hopeless world.
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Forget tabletop: Hard Livin’ turns a whole art gallery into a boardgame
It’s the game of life. (But not Life.)
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Cave Story follow-up Kero Blaster sure looks cuddly and challenging
Cave Story was kind of like Mega Man, but artistic and free-roaming and free. It was released as freeware on the net before being HD-fied and deified by plenty of players who thought it was pretty much perfect. We’ve been waiting awhile for how the enigmatic Japanese game figure Pixel would follow i
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Echo of the Wilds zeroes in on the mind-body tension
Crafting gets arduous.
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Local-multiplayer game Heli Brawl is Matisse meets Messhof
Something about developer 2bam’s depiction of Walter from The Big Lebowski getting his head blown off is distinctly Henri Matisse. The art direction in their game Heli Brawl, alternatively, Helibrawl, has a similar striking color palette and deformed abstract quality. But the other half of it—the fi
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Let’s gawk at Hyper Light Drifter’s preposterously hot pixel art
We already knew action-role-player Hyper Light Drifter was easy on the eyes. That was a done deal. But this new trailer really hammers the point home. In case you missed the Kickstarter campaign that blew up last year, this gorgeous showpiece of pixel art is also a game, and judging from the footag
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This Twitter bot might be the world’s greatest pixel artist
I know that art is supposedly the ultimate expression of human emotions and whatnot, but THIS ARTBOT. Like clockwork, it creates and churns out abstract and frequently mesmerizing pixel art four times a day. It’s called Great Artist and it lives up to the moniker. This is truly impressive work for a
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16-bit Fight Club is the best Fight Club
Fight Club belongs to that set of movies that successfully established Brad Pitt as a nutcase, along with Se7en and 12 Monkeys, that you saw and liked in high school, but never returned to because you a.) no longer trust your high school tastes b.) already know the twist ending c.) Brad Pitt is not
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The unreal, voxel-based matrices you can play with a controller
There is a certain school of thought that says that coding is a world of beauty. The trouble is, it’s largely an invisible world; i.e. you have to know programming language in order to appreciate it. It’s not like the average person is going to look at a page of HTML and be blown away. But after see
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The teletext photo editor turns your selfies into beautiful, abrasive pixels
Teletext the World is a photo-editing website and tool that can transform any photo into primary, abrasive teletext imagery. It kinda looks like an Anna Anthropy game. But what’s a teletext anyway? A brief history lesson: teletext predated the World Wide Web by transmitting info like news and weath