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Games

‘Cyber Shadow’ Is Full of Beautiful 8-Bit Pixels. Here’s How They Were Made

02.09.21

By Patrick Klepek
Tech

This Guy Designed and Built an 8-bit CPU from Scratch

02.09.18

By Daniel Oberhaus
Games

This Game Boy-Style Adventure Is A Beautifully Simple Throwback

05.31.17

By Janine Hawkins
Need 3 Minutes of Insanity Today? Watch Tyler Naugle’s “Neurocircuit” Shorts

04.08.17

By Diana Shi
Games

Iconic Street Artist Invader Invites Kids to Play His Work Like Video Games

03.14.17

By DJ Pangburn
Entertainment

Akira Manga Meets Enter the Void in an 8-Bit Dot Animated Music Video

02.01.17

By Nathaniel Ainley
Entertainment

Rick and Morty’s Awesome Intro Gets 8-Bit-ified

01.12.17

By Beckett Mufson
‘How to Be a Supermodel,’ Today’s Comic by Martin Lacko

01.07.17

By Martin Lacko
Entertainment

Glitched-Out Photo Manipulations Blur the 8-Bit World and Ours

12.14.16

By Nathaniel Ainley
Games

Now You Can Commodore 64-ify Your Logo

09.12.16

By DJ Pangburn
Games

‘Super Mario’ and ‘Legend of Zelda’ in HoloLens Is Gaming’s Potential Future

08.22.16

By DJ Pangburn
Games

Meet ‘Boltron,’ the Old School Video Game That’s Actually a Miniseries

07.31.16

By Beckett Mufson

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Gaming

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Gaming

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