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PC, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox; Bitmap Bureau/Reef Entertainment Arcade specialists Bitmap Bureau ply their craft in this retro remake of James Cameron’s action film. But ...

Last year saw some truly great Japanese games released, and here are some of my personal favorites you may have missed.

Devotion developer Red Candle Games is teasing its next project, and it appears to be a non-horror, stylish 2D action title. Red Candle Games shared a short video of its new project on Twitter, and it ...

Santa Monica Studio's God of War has produced many great games. Naturally, some of Kratos' bloody PlayStation adventures are ...

While there are several ways to make 2D art look 3D (or 2.5D, some might say), one solo developer has broken down sprite ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Rayman, as a character, was fully created by the French game designer Michel Ancel during his teenage years. When he decided to present his Rayman video game project to Ubisoft, he brought a 150-page ...

This year, games that did traditional things very well and games that broke the mold completely rose to the top Kotaku 2025 Shadow Labyrinth Terminator 2D: No Fate In a June interview with Rolling ...

Imagining a game as beautiful as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 getting even prettier is a tall task, but there’s one thing that does the job: turning it into HD-2D pixel art, the striking art style ...

It is not an overreaction to say the pre-Sunday NFL Week 16 games were completely wild and massively consequential. Seattle came back from way down in the fourth quarter to stun the Rams in overtime ...