I spoke with the art director behind Guild Wars 2 to discover how this timeless classic approaches game art and design. A ...

In fits of mistaken nostalgia this has led both to modern-day extreme cubism pixel art and video game ‘CRT’ filters that respectively fail to approach what pixel art was about, or why old ...

Whereas many modern games going for a retro style tend to make enemies into spongey tanks because, the thinking goes, more hits equals tougher difficulty, Ragebound wisely emphasizes that older ...