I grew up in an age of games with pixels so chunky they made Duplo look refined. The era was bookended by the Atari 2600 and the Game Boy, with the likes of the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, ...

In early November, the RETRO Video Game System concluded its slow crowdfunding demise on Indiegogo. Conceived by Mike Kennedy, founder of game auction site Game Gavel and the RETRO Video Game Magazine ...

We’re fans of the C.H.I.P. computer, which packs quite a bit into a $9 Linux-capable board. Today, they announced that the $15, low-key game designer software, PICO-8 will be included free for all C.H ...

PICO-8, the browser gaming platform that gave birth to Celeste, is celebrating the holiday season with an Advent calendar revealing a new bite-size video game every day for the rest of December. These ...

It’s absolutely wild to think it has already been three years since Celeste first launched, putting our platforming skills to the absolute test and warming our hearts with its daunting journey of self ...

Pico-8 is the games console you wanted as a kid. It’s a retro-games console environment for Mac (and other computers) that lets you build your own tiny games. Read next: Complete guide to coding on ...

Next Thing’s CHIP is a $9 computer — kind of like a Raspberry Pi, but even cheaper. Well, not as cheap as the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, which was launched after CHIP blew up Kickstarter, but cheaper than ...

When it comes to introducing folks to the Metroidvania genre, you could throw someone into the deep end with Hollow Knight or you could just offer them a bite-size re-creation that captures the magic ...