Retro games with modern systems have been a trending approach to indie titles for a long time, but this pattern began with one success.

One might think that side-scrolling video games are a “relic of the past,” but as the video game industry constantly proves, if you’re willing to put in the work, you can have a classic on your hands.

For a particular generation of gamers, there remains an unbridled joy in the challenging but simplistic design of a good side-scrolling game. Detailed level design, hidden areas ripe for discovery, ...

We’re inundated with games that play on retro nostalgia these days, but surprisingly, not many developers have tried emulating the game design of one of the most famous: Sonic. Freedom Planet does ...

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One might think that side-scrolling video games are a “relic of the past,” but as the video game industry constantly proves, if you’re willing to put in the work, you can have a classic on your hands.

Set against the backdrop of new and bigger-than-ever Norse-inspired worlds, Volgarr the Viking II ups the ante on the original’s hardcore 2D side-scrolling action in an expanded odyssey where every ...

As I played through the tutorial of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, I started to feel a fear very specific to videogames. You know the one: 'If I'm already struggling in the training level, what chance am I ...

Blending Fallout, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas, a new 2D side-scroller where you roam the wasteland gibbing ghouls with a gatling laser is currently in the works, transforming the Bethesda RPG ...

Tomb Raider II is getting the remastered treatment next year as part of the Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Trilogy, but if you’re curious as to what it would look like as a 3D side-scroller, you’re in ...