Indian developer BornMonkie has announced Dodo Duckie!, a 2D and 3D perspective-swapping puzzle platformer coming to PC via ...

When Pokemon transitioned to 3D models instead of 2D sprites, so, so many Pokemon were done dirty. Before, their sprites were detailed, dynamic, and full of life, and then their 3D models made them ...

You can now have your cave and eat it too: NIS America recently announced the game's 2D sprite mode, which takes the original, flat characters and enemies and places them in remodeled 3D ...

Graphically, most 3D games from the 1990s haven't aged all that well. Thankfully, these 90s games manage to buck that trend.

This includes the main character, Curly, all the Mimiga-- literally every character and boss in the game as 2D sprites in a 3D world.

Instead, they constructed “true 3D environments” from the 2D sprites in the games themselves. “This isn’t just a version number.

ModDB user _chillo released a new mod this week that replaces most of the original Doom's 2D sprites with 3D voxels. One might think the change would clash with the game's visual identity, but if ...

In a brief video, they highlight this issue by taking the modern 3D models for Gengar, Camerupt, and Kecleon and adjusting their coloring to match the colors of the Pokemon's late-2D-era sprites.

The new 3D model system looks much better, as there is no longer the need for abrupt transitions from one sprite to another as players move the camera around the battlefield.

The significance of this development is that 3D rendered items are coming to Minecraft, where they’ll float in the world as actual three-dimensional items instead of 2D sprites.

In a game like Super Mario Bros., for instance, 3DNES converts pipes to into cylindrical 3D models, with bulging piranha plants embedded in the center.