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 vector ...

Even before animator Paul Robertson designed the visual identity of video games, he’d made a name for himself with short films that perfectly mimicked the style of classic SNES-era beat-em-ups, like ...

[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 three ...