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A game screen shows an armed blue-haired woman facing zombies in a bloody subway station littered with bodies.
Nightmare Operator is like Resident Evil 4 and Shin Megami Tensei had a PS1 baby, then taught it fighting-game mechanics

By Alan Wen Published

Nolan Joseph explains how DDDistortion uses modern tools to recreate a readable retro aesthetic.

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Art for the video game Witchspire
Behind the scenes of Witchspire's spellbinding artistry

By James Clarke Published

Envar Studio's game director and concept artist reveal how they crafted the new game's vast open world.

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A soldier runs into a river in a video game based in the Vietnam war
How Unreal Engine 5 allowed Hell Let Loose: Vietnam to capture the density of the jungle with incredible fidelity

By Ian Dean Published

Expression Games' senior art director Ryan Playle-Howard reveals the challenges involved in bringing the first-person shooter's vast scale to life.

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Pen and ink art for a video game
How Origame Digital built a “souped-up PS2” Lovecraftian horror game about penguins

By Alan Wen Published

Origame Digital's Tali Faulkner reveals how penguins, Nazis and Lovecraft collide in this brilliantly weird Antarctic horror game.

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Super Mario Bros remade
Someone spent 45 days recreating Super Mario Bros level 1 pixel-by-pixel in free Godot Engine – and you can play it now

By Joe Foley Published

Go get your hit of nostalgia.

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Colourful screens from indie game Screenbound; shows a player holding a yellow handheld console displaying a 2D game that mirrors the surrounding 3D environment perfectly.
How Screenbound's impossible '5D' platformer concept became a real game

By Alan Wen Published

Radical Forge technical artist Lyra Owen shares insights on turning Screenbound's 'mockups' into a playable game that makes sense between 2D and 3D worlds.

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Meta's new social media app swaps photos and reels for your own AI-generated video games

By Joe Foley Published

But will Pocket's social vibe coding catch on?

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Star Wars pod racing in a video game
Star Wars: Galactic Racer's podracing meets Burnout had me on the edge of my seat

By Alan Wen Published

Hands-on with the roguelite-based arcade racer that feels like racing in a Galaxy far, far away.

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Screens of a fantasy game set in ancient Greece and medieval Greece
The surprising reason why Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy’s ancient Greece is historically wrong

By Ian Dean Published

“We had to tone down historical reality”, says art director Olivier Cannone.

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A red Art Deco era car
How Planet Coaster 2’s artists made Hollywood work as a theme park

By Ian Dean Published

The new Silver Screen Pack celebrates Art Deco and the golden era of cinema.

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