Square Enix’s iconic HD-2D graphical style is instantly recognizable these days. The company has used it in both Octopath Traveler games and Triangle Strategy to great effect, and clearly, players love it and want to see it in other games as well. YouTuber and 3D artist Dott recreated Pallet Town from Pokemon Red and Blue in Unreal Engine 5, showing off what a remade HD-2D Pokemon game could look like by today’s standards.
Who would have thought that giving games away for free would be so lucrative?
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella shared a bullish report on the performance of the Xbox gaming business also on PlayStation.
I'm kind of hoping they drop most hardware support here with a 'good enough console' next generation and focus more on being a publisher. Obviously that is doing well for them and they can still push cloud gaming since it's going to tons of smart TVS and devices. They're now the largest video game publisher in the world, if they aren't doing the most sales and pre-orders, then they would be in trouble. They aren't.
“We continue to transform the business and focus on margin expansion as we bring our games to over 500 million monthly active users across devices. We ended the quarter as the top publisher by pre-orders and pre-installs on both Xbox and PlayStation Store.”
Amazing news!
Xbox reigning within rival territory.
Big slap in the face of haters who used to crap on Xbox´s games and its quality.
We brought two of the biggest publishers in the world, cost thousands of people their livelihoods and consolidated a huge part of the industry, look how successful we are at gaming!
In a Game Rant interview, PM Studios CEO Michael Yum talks about his long career, his involvement in LvL Up Expo, and more.
And I'd love to see an HD-2D Xenogears remake. An HD-2D mech RPG.
At least one of us gets Pokemon games...
I think most of the fanbase that has been around since the GB days has been wanting them to go back to sprites. A game in that style, completely open world, but with the world design of the sprite games would be something spectacular. Oh and those 3D but 2D at an angle pokemon sprites from a few years back.
That would be so cash, I would be all over it, plus, it might be easier for Game Freak to develop games in that style since the transition to 3D/Switch has been a bit rough for them.
Yea. Don't like their really kiddy and simple look on the diamond pearl remakes.
In several years we'll all be griping about how overused this art style is.