Depixelizing Pixel Art: Upscaling Retro 8-bit Games At long last, we might be able to play Super Mario Bros. on a big screen without stretching our beloved plumber's pixels to breaking point.

Today at CES 2025, Govee announced Gaming Pixel Light, a Wi-Fi-connected accessory that brings a pixel art experience to ...

Old style, new audience. The appeal of pixel art and simpler, 8-bit style games was so great for Richard Grillotti and Miles Tilmann that the two decided to form a studio devoted solely to ...

Joining the ranks is a publication simply titled 8-Bit Art Book - by Ear Books - which pays homage to the visual quality of classic games spanning from 1975 to the early '90s.

The 8-bit video game aesthetic has evolved into a dynamic form of visual and musical art. Beginning with early Atari and Nintendo video games, the 8-bit aesthetic has been a part of our culture ...

Barcelona-based illustrator Octavi Navarro puts a modern twist on the video games of the 1980s and 1990s with his Tumblr Pixels, Huh? Those old 8-bit games never looked so good.

Pixel art requires a certain kind of skill: you not only have to be skilled as an artist, but also patient enough to create an image block-by-block. It’s time-consuming work, which makes it less ...

Game Frame isn’t the first Pixel Art project to hit Kickstarter, nor is it the most complex. Williams points to Al Linke’s Pixel project , which used a 32-by-32 pixel frame, as an inspiration ...

Fascinating research from Microsoft’s Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski of The Hebrew University has produced an algorithm that is remarkably good at turning 8-bit pixel art into shaded, smooth ...

8-Bit Pixel Art Inspires Geeky Kitchen Gear. Cameron Oehler learned about woodworking from his cabinet maker father, but also has a deeply ingrained passion for video games and digital culture.

[Photo: Depixelizing Pixel Art] I love gaming on an HDTV, but I still keep an old CRT around just so I can play some Genesis or Nintendo games, because 8-bit graphics blown up in resolution by ...