Archive for August, 2006

There is no I in Game Qualty Assurance.

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

You’ve just purchased Perfect Madden Zero: Hyperlegume Tournament Manager Collector’s Edition ($70, what a steal, they’re for collectors see it says so on the cover!), the latest in the hit series by PA games.
You slide it lovingly into your Xbox 360, awaiting the awesome extreme legume action like you’ve never seen it before, complete with [...]

PPA, intl’s Quality Control Strikes Again

Friday, August 11th, 2006

I mentioned PPA, intl’s USB sound card in a tasty plastic shell in a recent post. It turned out to be a total piece of junk. In the past I’ve bought PPA’s Metal Gear Box (I’m sure Ocelot would approve) hard drive enclosure, which turned out to break. Not just once either, it broke a [...]

Bugzilla Annoyance.

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Which isn’t to say I don’t like Bugzilla, I do. I still like it better than FogBugz. I’ve used both professionally, and for obvious cost concerns (FogBugz is per-seat, I don’t care what discounts they offer for non-profits,) please see the multitude of previous posts as to why I don’t like it otherwise, I [...]

And Sometimes It Is The Tester’s Fault

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

This isn’t totally QA related, however I think it is worth sharing. Several months ago I replaced my older G3 iBook with a G4 iBook after the G3 failed. Almost immediately I plugged in my headphones and got mono sound from the left channel only.
This was extremely disturbing, I fiddled for some time, noted that [...]

LaGER Podcast Interview

Monday, August 7th, 2006

While you’re waiting for the next Game QA Blog post (gotta build up the quality bitterness!) you might want to listen to an interview I did on the LaGER Podcast. Right now both mp3 and ogg are missing some chunk of the interview I think, however that just means you don’t have to listen to [...]

Woohoo!

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Blogger just now fixed my admin access, woohoo! Also, the atom & rss feed urls are fixed, along with the design. Enjoy.