Michael Russel has an article in the September issue of PC Gamer (Star Siege on the cover) covering his time at Ritual. Go pick it up, only 5 bucks! After reading that, you should also read his blog for a straight look at the life of a software developer/tester.
Just click the link for Sam’s deconstruction of the Seattle Weekly article. Also, with regard to VMC/Volt/etc, it was explained to me during one of my interviews there – during the more stringent hiring process for more regular contractors than the bull pen clown car – that VMC/Volt exists solely so Microsoft doesn’t get pwned …
Here, of which my favorite quote is: I get up and use the women’s rest room, which is empty and spotless.
Oh man, what a terrible bug in The Darkness, if you sit down on the couch and watch “To Kill a Mockingbird”, after awhile you won’t be able to rise again. I’ve had this happen twice now in the PS3 version and so have other people, in the 360 version as well!
A friend and I were discussing how annoying bugzilla can be the other day after a bug reporter resolved his own bug. It made sense to the bug reporter, since he had submitted a patch to fix the problem as well, but then the bug of course doesn’t show up in my open bug list, …
Exactly one year ago on Sunday, July 9th I posted the first gameqablog post here. Just in time for the anniversary I fscked my hand in some fashion to make typing and mousing difficult. In any case, thanks for reading, hopefully after my hand heals up I can return to normal post lengths!
I just experienced my best gaming in Vista crash ever, which is good for the day before the gameqablog.com 1-year anniversary! The application RelicCoH.exe has experienced an error after: 1) Running the built-in performance benchmark 2) Lowering resolution, increasing detail 3) Running benchmark again *crash* Tester expected result: Oh hell, the game crashed, at least …
The Menus! These are the first menus I’ve ever seen that are beautifully creepy. Disgusting sounds permeate the air as the tentacles of The Darkness writhe in the background behind the menu text. The text — which also happen to cast shadows onto the tentacles — is otherwise plain. The combination here of the creepy …
Go read Sam Kalman’s Total Responsibility! It has dogs barfing, games crashing, bug solving, faults, and failures!