The technological progress of video game graphics has been impressive over the last decades. We've gone from the early 2000s retro jankiness to ultra-realistic character models that border on being a ...

It feels like we have forgotten our roots when we started gaming. Playing games initially involved puzzle-solving, which ...

Malachi jumped into video games with the family consoles he played on as a kid. Classic cartridges like Super Mario Bros 3, Aladdin, and Mortal Kombat were almost always loaded in. He continued his ...

If you want to play current games on your PC, you don’t necessarily have to reach for a graphics card that costs $1,000 or more. You can also play current titles with entry-level GPUs. We explain what ...

Have you ever wondered how the graphics in your favorite video games worked? This is the start of a series on game graphics, and what better place to start than how exactly the original Mario Bros.

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, ...

The organization behind the OpenGL graphics software released specifications Thursday for a major update designed to add some razzle-dazzle to computer games. Specifications for version 2.0 of OpenGL ...

Thanks to modern technology, anime games can easily look like the anime series they are based on. It was hard to convey that with pixelated sprites during the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, but each new 3D ...

It’s no secret that the best games tend to come right at the end of a console’s life. After years of getting used to the hardware, developers can push the limits of what consoles can do and create ...

Last time, I talked about racing the beam, a type of graphics used when memory was scarce. Now it’s time to step into the future with more memory and talk about what modern 2D games still do to this ...

Video game graphics options on PC can be very confusing, especially for people with absolutely no idea about 3D rendering techniques. And yet, the graphics options page is a very critical place to ...