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Steam Creature Collector Fest starts today and runs through next week. Some great games are deeply discounted, including some you wouldn't expect.

Publishers Akatsuki Games and Aniplex, and developer Blast Edge Games announced the 2D top-down action pixel RPG, HYKE:Northern Light(s), will launch for the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch ...

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Terminator 2D: No Fate ... and 16-bit video games, but with all the potential that funnelling that through modern hardware can produce. There’s really slick animation, the sprite work is really ...

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Oliver Brandt is a Contributing Pop Culture Writer based in Tasmania, Australia. Their focus is reporting on video games, film, and TV. They have extensive knowledge of video game history and ...

When we introduced last year's annual list of the best games in ... some masterful pixel-art graphics, which incorporate some wild 2D lighting effects and detailed, painterly sprite world.

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