JRPGs A JRPG series that's been running for 21 years is going back to remakes because "the player base was shrinking" Games "I feel a strong need to prevent Japanese-style game development from being ...

“Well now… In a long-running series, novelty and continuity are both important, but we wanted this title to fully convey the appeal of Donkey Kong as a character. Meanwhile, we thought that by ...

How do you make old games attractive to modern players? Masaaki Hayasaka, the producer of the remake, explains the magic behind the HD-2D style. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and ...

Look, we need to talk about something that’s been bugging me for a while now. Square Enix goes and creates this absolutely gorgeous HD 2D art style that makes everyone’s jaws drop, and then what ...

Video game graphics in the HD era have been heavily focused on visual fidelity and ever-growing polygon counts. With the release of Octopath Traveler in 2018 however, Square Enix presented a modern ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

In 2018, Square Enix released a new game called Octopath Traveler, which introduced a revolutionary new graphics format ...

If you uploaded a Super Mario Maker course with cheap hidden blocks, unfair enemy placement, or just overall haphazard design, I'm sorry to say that Nintendo might have judged you for it. During ...

Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake is shaping up to be a gorgeous revival for the classic 1988 JRPG, but its devs actually took inspiration from "a lot of modern games," including The Legend of Zelda: Breath ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “The top-down gameplay style that has been used continuously in the series is very ‘Zelda-like’, ...