Old style, new audience. The appeal of pixel art and simpler, 8-bit style games was so great for Richard Grillotti and Miles Tilmann that the two decided to form a studio devoted solely to ...

Pixel art requires a certain kind of skill: you not only have to be skilled as an artist, but also patient enough to create an image block-by-block. It’s time-consuming work, which makes it less ...

Barcelona-based illustrator Octavi Navarro puts a modern twist on the video games of the 1980s and 1990s with his Tumblr Pixels, Huh? Those old 8-bit games never looked so good.

8-Bit Pixel Art Inspires Geeky Kitchen Gear. Cameron Oehler learned about woodworking from his cabinet maker father, but also has a deeply ingrained passion for video games and digital culture.

Depixelizing Pixel Art: Upscaling Retro 8-bit Games At long last, we might be able to play Super Mario Bros. on a big screen without stretching our beloved plumber's pixels to breaking point. By ...

[Photo: Depixelizing Pixel Art] I love gaming on an HDTV, but I still keep an old CRT around just so I can play some Genesis or Nintendo games, because 8-bit graphics blown up in resolution by ...

The Evolution of 8-bit Art. Special | 7m 29s Video has Closed Captions | CC. ... And to me, pixel art is like the simplest way to communicate. You can throw up four colors and it can mean something.

Fascinating research from Microsoft’s Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski of The Hebrew University has produced an algorithm that is remarkably good at turning 8-bit pixel art into shaded, smooth ...

A pair of computer science researchers have come up with an algorithm that can take a low-resolution piece of pixel art and upscale it accurately to vector graphics. Imagine seeing SNES games ...