A zoo on Java island released photos of Indonesia's first locally-born giant panda cub, and said the male cub was showing ...

These five 2D platformers didn't blow the doors off of fans at the time, but deserved much more love than they got.

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't interested in making another 2D adventure game, despite having brought the series ...

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 ...

Final Fantasy 5’s very identity is wrapped up in the fact that it’s a pixel-based game, which a remake could lean into. FF5 feels like it has more in common with the tone and style of Dragon Quest, ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...

What are the best 2D Mario games? We rank every side-scrolling platformer in the Nintendo mascot's history.Super Mario’s 40-year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little ...

Square Enix’s H2-2D line of games can sometimes feel like something of a conveyor belt. Since 2018, we’ve had seven games, both remakes and new titles, in the official series. We are now at the point ...

Though the genre has since exploded, 2D platforming arguably owes its start to Super Mario. And even though it’s been 40 years since the first game came out, few 2D platformers have risen to the level ...