D animation studios have become the backbone of modern digital entertainment, combining artistry, design, and technology to ...

Confederate Express , a just-announced tactical RPG from indie developer Kilobite , will feature all of my favorite things: permadeath, zombies and 2D sprite graphics. It is almost completely funded ...

One cutscene in particular that players have praised is after Sonic gets a Chaos Emerald, where he performs a fun little dance before twirling around and smiling at the camera. This scene usually ...

Huntdown is a fascinating contradiction. On one hand, it's a retro-inspired 2D run-and-gun game in the vein of Contra, bringing to mind nostalgia-tinged visions of Arnold Schwarzenegger stomping ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. As we have seen time and time again in PlayStation-era role-playing games, mixing 2D sprite animation with 3D graphics can have mixed results.

While the arrival of HDTV has generally been a boon to the game industry, it's definitely caused headaches for at least one shrinking but still important sector of the industry -- 2D sprite artists.

The creation process behind 2D animation conjures nostalgic images of smoke-filled rooms where animators labored over their slanted drafting tables, flipping between thin pages while sketching a ...