The Company Man is a 2D action platformer where you control Jim, a fresh graduate entering the workforce for the first time.

Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three distinct eras since 1985 – the original game revived the video ...

What are the best 2D Mario games? We rank every side-scrolling platformer in the Nintendo mascot's history.Super Mario’s 40-year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little ...

Something is enduring about pixel art that keeps drawing us back. A handful of coloured squares shouldn’t have much power, ...

The makers of Dead Cells offer their take on the Prince Of Persia, with a new 2D roguelite platformer that has just enough ...

Games reward creativity: titles like Zelda, Hitman, and MGSV let players solve problems in countless ways. Nonlinear play grows thinking: puzzles and open missions encourage outside-the-box solutions.

Fifteen years ago, in the mysterious land of Toronto, Canada, Scott Pilgrim was a box office failure. Now it's a cult ...

Action RPGs "I think this is the future that games are holding for us": Nier Automata's Yoko Taro thinks tech advancements like "AI's generative capabilities" will see game interactivity "evolve into ...

JRPGs "A lot of RPGs have adopted more action gameplay elements," says Dragon Quest remake producer, making old-school turn-based JRPGs "actually rare nowadays" and "considered fresh again" Dragon ...

Square Enix’s H2-2D line of games can sometimes feel like something of a conveyor belt. Since 2018, we’ve had seven games, both remakes and new titles, in the official series. We are now at the point ...

This 2019 entry in the Fire Emblem series is among the older games on our list, but it still holds up. Many gamers found themselves suddenly thinking about this game while playing Clair Obscur: ...

Six months later and SI studio head Miles Jacobson is being a little more forthright. "If we had released FM25 in the state ...