Shovel Knight is a game that was pitched on Kickstarter as a return to the 8-bit era that many of us remember from our childhood. Shovel Knight was a game that promised to bring back the tough ...

If you like your platforming to have just 8 bits and full of silliness then it looks like Shovel Knight is for you. It apes the style of the old NES era platformers but equips your knight with a ...

Shovel Knight served as a vessel for the spirit of 8-bit gaming from the halcyon days when the NES reigned supreme in millions of living rooms. That spirit moved Dan Adelman. A graduate of ...

The performers at Steel Thy Concert seemed all too aware of this as well. The ensemble, led by Grammy-winning 8-Bit Big Band director Charlie Rosen, performed never-before-heard rock arrangements ...

Shovel Knight is a download-only 8-bit platformer. Alone, these qualifiers hardly separate it from many games in the indie game stratosphere, good or bad. Yet Yacht Club Games' creation has held ...

Shovel Knight, the 8-bit indie game being developed by a team of ex-WayForward Technologies staff, has been fully funded thanks to contributions via Kickstarter. With 12 days to go, Shovel Knight ...

If you've answered "yes", then we've a feeling you're going to love Bat Boy, an 8-bit action-platformer from X PLUS Games that takes everything great from Shovel Knight and Mega Man and lumps it ...

The knight can only bounce when hitting an enemy or specific in-game objects, ... Every inch inspired by the traditional 8-bit platformer, Shovel Knight does fall back on established design tropes.

Former members of WayForward Technologies, the developer behind games like A Boy and His Blob and Double Dragon Neon, have turned to Kickstarter to launch a new action-adventure game with 8-bit ...

Shovel Knight' might look like it could run on NES, but it's much more complex than anything 8-bit developers were capable of in the 1980s and 1990s. Yacht Club Games Recent indie games like ...