Nintendo and Square Enix’s remake of the cult 1994 role-playing game Live A Live is one of the more interesting reissues of the last few years. Mostly, that’s due to the source material itself. Live A ...

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 managing editor for the mobile team, ...

HD-2D is the natural culmination of looking back to the NES and SNES eras of gaming for inspiration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, games sported pixelated art styles out of necessity. In 2024, that ...

Listen, I’m right there with you. I love roleplaying games. Big fan of these Dragon Quests. I first fell in love with them back when everything was pixel art. Of course, at that time, it wasn’t really ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

While 2D games might look easy to make, Square Enix, one of the most popular companies when it comes to the HD-2D style, says that it is actually more expensive than most people think. Square Enix ...

There’s been plenty of things to discuss about the Pokemon franchise lately, and even when it’s not official works being talked about, fans give us plenty to look at. For example, Pokemon Black and ...

Trumann started writing for news around 2017-2018, with a specialization in local news and gaming reviews for a local paper. He began writing for GameRant in June 2021 as one of the team's Weekend ...