The 8-bit video game aesthetic has evolved into a dynamic form of visual and musical art. Beginning with early Atari and Nintendo video games, the 8-bit aesthetic has been a part of our culture ...

The Evolution of 8-Bit Art is the latest installment in PBS' fantastic OffBook web video series, which has showcased Reddit, graffiti, generative art and Lego-based art in previous episodes.

[8 Bit Spaghetti]’s build began on his blog. He originally planned to build a 4-bit computer but decided a computer that could only count to 15 would be too limiting.

This time they tackle the evolution of 8-bit art. Beginning with early Atari and Nintendo video games, the 8-bit aesthetic has been a part of our culture for over 30 years.

8-bit has permeated all artistic genres, from music to graffiti art. It has a counter-cultural ethos that has appealed to young creative-types everywhere, essentially subverting the notion of ...

The 8-bit term, along with 16-bit, was first referred to as game processors that ran on computer systems. Thanks to the development of computers, this term has gained a new meaning and is no longer a ...

Easy: build a 16-bit computer from 74HC logic chips. Attentive readers will likely remember this computer’s builder, [Paulo Constantino], from his previous work on 8-bit breadboard computers.

A pair of computer science researchers have come up with an algorithm that can take a low-resolution piece of pixel art and upscale it accurately to vector graphics. Imagine seeing SNES games ...

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic ...

Kyle Hovey has decided to build his own 8-bit CPU from scratch, out of breadboard, NVRAM chips, surface-mount transistors, and lots and lots of wire -- and he's blogged his experience, so you can ...

[Photo: Depixelizing Pixel Art] I love gaming on an HDTV, but I still keep an old CRT around just so I can play some Genesis or Nintendo games, because 8-bit graphics blown up in resolution by ...

With over 50 8-bit portraits in his collection so far, Hurrt is now garnering attention for his creative works of art. From the Weeknd to Kendrick Lamar to Yeezy, himself, Hurrt has created some ...