Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

GoogleDeepMind has an 'open endedness team' and we've just found out what they've been up to in recent times - namely facilitating AI to generate 2D platformer worlds based on simple image prompts.

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has turned his focus to his lifelong passion of gaming. He lived and worked in South Korea ...

Often considered as reflecting his designer's somewhat eccentric personality, Rayman is a 2D cartoon-style character deprived ...

Indie game developer Sinclair Strange and publisher Scarlet Moon Games unveiled their latest title, as we're getting a new platformer called Sir Noggin. The game is designed to pay homage to the ...

Celeste, arguably the best modern 2D platformer going and a notable GOTY contender when it came out in 2018, has received an official N64-style follow-up for its sixth anniversary. Announced early ...

Despite being one of the most popular genres across all the home console generations, it isn’t often platformers are mentioned on lists of the best PC games. Normally, the conversation centers around ...

While the rivalries of the 90s may not be burning as strong as they once were, there are those of us who will always pick a side in our hearts for the great Mario vs Sonic debate. Things are a bit ...

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For every era and generation of gaming that has come and gone, platformers have always been there at the forefront — shaping childhoods, genres, and entire consoles. 2D platformers offered tight ...