Maddie Fisher is a writer, journalist and game developer. She was born and raised on the east coast, having started working in games journalism over ten years ago. She tends to enjoy musical theater, ...

It's well past time the industry brought back pre-rendered backgrounds, and these are the JRPGs that did them the best.

Did you ever realize how silly 2D video game backgrounds are? Especially those in fighting games like in Street Fighter 2 or Samurai Showdown. Random people watching you fight with random objects like ...

The hype surrounding Netflix’s South Korean television series Squid Game has been dominating both charts worldwide and on social media since its release. On 3 October, Netflix released 11 high-quality ...

If you grew up playing video games like Street Fighter II or Samurai Showdown, chances are the only thing you focused on was figuring out the right button combination to beat the pulp out of your ...

The hand-drawn fighting game background is a fading art, kept alive by the crew at SNK Playmore, keeping the lights on in the King of the Fighters series and the tireless hardcore savants at Arc ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

Alexander Moore is a gaming news writer from the United Kingdom. He has a master's degree in Creative Writing and an undergraduate degree in English Literature with Creative Writing, both from ...

A new set of Kingdom Hearts and Trials of Mana Zoom backgrounds from Square Enix will make your video chats feel more adventurous. The company shared a bundle of images that repurpose in-game ...

The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3-D video games are often hand painted and thus costly to generate. A breakthrough from a ...

In an age where your virtual background says more about you than actually being in the call, static backgrounds in Zoom are just plain boring. While Zoom supports video virtual backgrounds, finding an ...

SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, CA, August 12, 2008 -- The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3D video games are often hand painted and thus ...