How do you make old games attractive to modern players? Masaaki Hayasaka, the producer of the remake, explains the magic behind the HD-2D style. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and ...

The Japanese version of today’s Nintendo Direct featured a significant announcement regarding Square Enix’s Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake. After originally receiving a tentative 2025 release window, ...

Back in the before times, prior to the launch of Nintendo’s mega-hit Switch successor, I had an article series going called Road to Nintendo Switch 2, wherein I reviewed Switch 1 games from my backlog ...

Square Enix's latest initiative with the Dragon Quest series has been to remake the earliest games in the series with the HD-2D style pioneered by games like Octopath Traveler. Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D ...

Suikoden is one of those classic RPG series that isn’t around as much for various reasons in the modern era, but is absolutely worth playing today. For the longest time it wasn’t easy to access the ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...

Square Enix is following up last year's release of Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake with the remade versions of the first two games in the franchise. In celebration of the original game's release on May 27 ...

The Sims (the first one) didn’t hold back in denting my confidence. This is a game that I don’t believe aged well at all if you’re serious about playing The Sims, and are used to the later entries in ...

Now that The Sims 2 is kinda-sorta playable again on modern machines, you might expect it to be perfect right out of the digital box; its rich simulation of the modern day-to-day (circa 2004, anyway) ...

The whole 'trap Sims in the pool with no way to get out' shtick is such a cliche, and it’s a real pain in the neck to actually get done. By the time anyone actually dies my Sim has had to run to the ...

While I obviously dabbled in the game’s infamous acts of Sim sadism—deleting pool ladders and drowning unsuspecting Sims I’d forced to go for a dip, setting the house on fire and deleting the doors—my ...

Connor is a writer on Game Rant. Hailing from the east coast of Scotland, with experience in the development and retail spaces of the industry, he uses his passion for games and Scottish charm to ...