{"id":88751,"date":"2016-04-15T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88751"},"modified":"2016-04-15T12:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:33:52","slug":"awesome-animated-and-pixel-art-desktop-wallpapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/88751-awesome-animated-and-pixel-art-desktop-wallpapers","title":{"rendered":"Awesome animated and pixel art desktop wallpapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you\u2019ve got a few CPU cycles to burn and want your desktop wallpaper to pay homage to something awesome from your favourite pastime?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve come to the right place. We have everything from animated GIF wallpapers to Rainmeter setups that will take a good while to set up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"theblood-pumpingdesktopforwindows\">The Blood-pumping desktop (for Windows)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lifehacker-Animated-wallpaper.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88783\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lifehacker-Animated-wallpaper.gif\" alt=\"Lifehacker Animated wallpaper\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lifehacker recently featured a Rainmeter-based desktop, called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/the-blood-pumping-desktop-1767483753\" target=\"_blank\">The Blood-Pumping Desktop<\/a><\/strong>, from McTarkus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainmeter.net\" target=\"_blank\">Rainmeter<\/a><\/strong> is a desktop customisation program for Windows that lets you overlay various skins to display information right on top of your wallpaper.<\/p>\n<p>A full description of how to configure Rainmeter to recreate this desktop is available on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/paladinj.kinja.com\/my-custom-desktop-wallpaper-i-made-myself-from-an-imag-1766983470\" target=\"_blank\">McTarkus\u2019 Kinja blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"pixelartwallpapers\">Pixel art wallpapers<\/h3>\n<p>Imgur user SirDrinksAlot recently posted this collection of pixel art wallpapers he prepared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/FWvFz\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/FWvFz\">More 1920&#215;1080 PixelArt Wallpapers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"animatedwallpapers\">Animated wallpapers<\/h3>\n<p>Another Imgur user, Unpopularpuffininperson, recently posted a gallery of animated wallpapers to the image sharing network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/V2Mj5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/V2Mj5\">Animated Wallpaper Dump<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"gamingwallpapers\">Gaming wallpapers<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Super-Mario-HD.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88781\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88781\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Super-Mario-HD-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Super Mario HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Super-Mario-HD-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Super-Mario-HD-230x130.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imgur also contains a number of galleries with images of gaming, science-fiction, and fantasy wallpapers.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a selection of gaming and sci-fi wallpapers posted by three different users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/5mD1m\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/5mD1m\">Gaming Sci-Fi Fantasy wallpaper dump<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/IWtDN<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/JoLsW<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Those looking for wallpapers larger than the standard 1,920&#215;1,080 size can also find many galleries for high-res images.<\/p>\n<p>One such gallery is embedded below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/RKLKa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/RKLKa\">Big screen? I got you! 2560&#215;1440+ Wallpapers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For those looking for something a little more retro, but still full HD, Penguillion has a collection of retro gaming wallpapers on Imgur.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/fl1td\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/fl1td\">Thought I&#8217;d share my HD retro gaming wallpaper dump<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More monitor news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81403-would-you-look-at-that-an-8k-r1-8-million-tv.html\"><strong>Would you look at that, an 8K R1.8 million TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/75796-lgs-new-super-thin-oled-wallpaper-panel-is-exactly-that-thin.html\"><strong>LG\u2019s new super-thin OLED wallpaper panel is exactly that, thin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/4e1ni7\/what_aspects_of_a_mans_life_are_most_women\/?limit=500\"><strong>What aspects of a man\u2019s life are most women unaware of? : AskReddit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the magic of Imgur, the days of scrounging around the \u2019Net looking for a sweet new wallpaper are (mostly) over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":88787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21,17919,17917,17915,17921],"class_list":["post-88751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-imgur","tag-lifehacker","tag-rainmeter","tag-wallpapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89515,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751\/revisions\/89515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}