Square Enix trademarks “HD-2D” in Europe

Categories: News, Switch

There’s never a bad time for some benign trademark news, as Square Enix has apparently trademarked both “HD-2D” and “HD2D” in Europe. The phrase HD-2D was used to describe the visual design of Octopath Traveler, with its 3D, high-res pixel art and complex lighting effects. This presumably means the company…

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Super Smash Bros. celebrates its 20th anniversary today

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: Retro, News

January 21st, 1999. On this day in Japan, Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64 was released, and while the series would need another installment to really take off, the way people think about Nintendo and its characters would be forever changed. With only eight All Stars in its starting…

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