Last month we featured this article/showcase by PJer Retronator who wrote a bit about pixeljoint's past.
He has now posted Part2 HERE

The latest collection of PJer finds, creations and other stuff.

PUBLIC NOTICE
The new PJv3 is up and running but bugs and glitches abound.
Please post or pm a mod with your find in the forum post PJv3 Bugs and Glitches

Challenge winner, awestsecurity, wants you to create an exploded diagram. It can be any object you want (even a fictional object), but keep the canvas size restriction in mind!

Canvas Size - Max 175 x 175.
Colours - Max 8.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - No.

After roughly 4 years of fiddling we're getting ready for a major site update....

• Fully responsive site...  phone, tablet and desktop should all function properly.
• MSSQL to MySQL conversion. This will have some transition issues with extended character set (characters like ü and ñ and ó might not convert properly). Apologies in advance to our members who will have their names and comments mangled a bit, but we don't want to hold off on this upgrade any longer. This will not be a problem going forward and it will always be possible to fix the rogue characters once the site has transitioned to MySQL.
• Optimizations including caching, script/style consolidation, (some) minification, image compression and web fonts.
• Design touchups. 
• Removal of unused sections. 

Testing should wrap up today or tomorrow and we'll be pushing site up soon after. The site will be fully offline for a couple hours at a time over the next few days and there will almost certainly be a few issues over the next week or so. Please bear with us.

Ubisavis has released shoot 'em up video game for Windows.

DanielHyaku has launched a Kickstarter to fund his game Satellite Rush.
Satellite Rush is a sci-fi top-down shooter with pixel art graphics and roguelike elements.

Depict a destroyed settlement (village, city, etc.).

Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for June 2015. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.

 

A Visitor by Snake

On the edge of the forest by Thu

Spark of time by Mr_Hk_

The Core Level by Finlal

Parkour Forest by Weston

Beaming by wish04

On the road to the Scool by andylittle

Poison by Jinn

Waves of Time by Lighterthief

The Werewolf Tycoon by Joecreates

In this article/showcase PJ member Retronator writes a bit about the pixeljoint's past.
Retronator mentions a part 2 is coming in the future too!

Volrak_Rutra found a great time-sensitive deal on apps for PJers.
humblebundle.com is offering a game making software bundle that is only US$12 for the whole package.
Less than 6 days left when this news is posted.

In light of the passing of Satoru Iwata, this week's challenge has to do with Balloon Fight, one of the first games programmed by Satoru Iwata.

Create an image depicting the Balloon Fighter character. This can be presented however you want: a sprite, a portrait, or incorporated into a scene.

R.I.P. Satoru Iwata (1959 - 2015).

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

FEMICOM Museum is a hybrid physical/digital museum and archive dedicated to the preservation and reimagination of femininity in twentieth-century video games, computing, and electronic toys.

Tumblr seems to have turned everyone into a curator. 

Pixel an original monster that lives on the surface of an icy planet.

Your image needs to use this colour - #0066FF:

Canvas Size - Max 100 x 100.
Colours - Max 16. Must include #0066FF.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

Foxtail is beautiful point and click adventure by artemvodorez
Trailer | Steam Greenlight

Bitslap just released Hypercollider 2 on web/iOS/android
Announcement tweet | Web
This is his first release and the prototype was the first One Hour Game Jam Game