We may earn a commission from links on this page. Cracked takes a thoughtful look at what five iconic v8-bit video game characters would look like if their sprites were magically granted life. The ...

Just a few weeks ago, Square Enix announced its next big game, Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, which is set to make its way to Android sometime this Spring. Record Keeper is a big mash-up of past games, ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

We’ve all seen video-game sprite art before, but these five artists on Etsy.com depict their favorite 8-bit characters in different ways. One specializes in bead work, another prefers cross-stitch, a ...

Yesterday, the new service Eightbit.me launched; for its first move, the HTML 5 social game changed your Twitter avatar to an 8-bit character image of your own design–without your express permission.

A game within Tiny Rebel Games' popular mobile app reimagines the famous doctors as 8-bit characters. It launched in November 2013 and now has 80 hours of gameplay, 2 million users, and a thriving ...

Many kids today probably don’t know this, but street art didn’t receive mainstream acceptance until Banksy became a household name in the mid-2000s. Before then, graffiti was widely seen as an eyesore ...

I think we can all agree that Internet catchphrases and old school video games go together like peanut butter and jelly. Square Painter, aka Adam Shub, combines the best of both worlds to make some ...

This year alone we’ve seen Happy Gilmore, Pulp Fiction, and Kill Bill re-imagined in 8-bit. But what about your favorite ’90s music videos from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden? Well look no ...

What makes Wreck-It Ralph such a fascinating movie isn’t just that it turns a villain into a hero or that it has a bunch of video game references – it’s the entire world that it creates. Instead of ...