The Nintendo DS was a particularly good canvas for pixel art, and the concurrent rise of download services on home consoles proved another great fit for 2D ... games’ most defining visual style ...

Video games have never looked better than they ... other developers realize their imaginative worlds with expressive art styles like pixel art, cel-shading, and hand-drawn animation that are ...

Of all the art ... 2D visual style used for Live A Live is both faithful to the original Super Famicom game, and also stunningly detailed, and might just be the best-looking HD-2D game yet. Not a ...

Sonic Superstars, the new 2D Sonic platformer ... It ditches pixel art for a cartoony new visual style that looks pretty good. But if you were hoping for a future Sonic game to return to its ...

Sonic Mania – was this the last time fans will ever see a Sonic game with the classic pixel art? (Picture: Sega) The makers of Sonic Superstars think pixel art is going to become an even bigger ...

However, Sonic Team suggests Classic Sonic's new look may be permanent, as they believe pixel art won't be a viable style for ... that 2D pixel art will survive as a video game art form for ...

Head of Sonic Team Takashi Iizuka doesn't think pixel art is a "viable art style ... Games Radar at Gamescom, Iizuka discussed the future of the Sonic franchise and the need to maintain both 2D ...

Few video game visual styles have hit that perfectly-aged sweet spot like 16-bit pixel art ... of an unfortunate discrepancy between the 2D and 3D art styles of the Super Mario Strikers games.

Octopath Traveler invented HD-2D, a unique art style ... Wargroove goes for a rich, pixel-heavy art style that wouldn’t look out of place on the Game Boy Advance, characterised by chunky ...

Sonic Superstars is an exciting return to the Blue Blur's 2D origins, but its new art ... 2017's Sonic Mania - made in the original games' pixel art style - boasts scores in the mid-80s, and ...