My copy of La Pucelle Tactics didn’t work with either of the Playstation 2’s I have, finally with my Playstation 3 it plays properly. Previously I’d get a garbled screen, not sure why. Also, virtual memory cards and 99% compatibility are such a refreshing change from the stacks of xbox 1 games I have that [...]

Michael Russel wrote up his Game QA Bill of Rights. It is pretty much exactly what we need, minus the pandering to the allowance for 10/hr goons to come in and be treated like dirt, unless they’re at least at some kind of “intern” level with somewhere besides test management to go to.
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On the latest CAG Cast, and in Penny Arcade, there are complaints about the quality of the 360. Especially the headset, and Xbox Live voice communication in general. Granted, these are new things. However, today a patch was released to solve some of those problems with Rainbow Six Vegas…including crash bugs. This is absolutely 100% [...]

Sam over at Climactic Ave needs testers, no pay, but hey, you get to play some game before it comes out, do it!

I got a PS3. The 20GB unit. A scalper spoke for the 60GB at Target before I could get my hands on it. Tonight I downloaded the NBA 07 demo, which is fairly impressive to someone who hasn’t really played basketball video games in a long while, not with any seriousness since the old days [...]

Well, what can I say, Michael is one of the few people standing up and putting a human face against the normally dehumanizing fields of game QA workers in caves everywhere. Ritual fired him and he isn’t saying why, in any case I would guess that instead of the obvious conspiracy theories that this just [...]