Unlevel Design
How does the other half play? Our one-time casino correspondent rides the bus to Niagara Falls and tries to get used to losing, being lost, and loathing games.
Filipe Salgado
The Unauthorized and Incomplete Story of the IGF Pirate Kart
What happens when you combine more than 100 renegade game developers, 300 off-the-cuff games they made, and a mock failed submission to the Independent Games Festival? Filipe Salgado brings us into the sporadic and rebellious world of the 2012 IGF Pirate Kart to talk with some of the minds behind th
Review: Don’t Play Sports With Justin Smith
Want to feel the sand between your toes and the ocean spray in your face, to hear the crowds ooh and ahh over your pirouettes in the sky? Justin Smith’s Realistic Summer Sports Simulator is not your game.
Review: Homeless, Gaming’s Photo 101
Filipe Salgado on the independent game Homeless, which attempts to express the plight of the homeless with repeated presses of the A button. Questions remain: Why does the homeless man think he deserves to be homeless? And how did he get X-ray vision?
Review: NFL Blitz
Regardless of one’s familiarity of the game, some sports games just fall flat. Filipe Salgado paints a picture of why NFL Blitz won’t have Madden worrying about competition anytime soon.