It is fairly sad when Mark Rein feels that this is the case: MR: Oh, sure. That’s not uncommon. We did that with Gears of War. A lot of guys do that. A day-one patch is almost a necessity these days! The interview
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Online Version of PC Zone Interview
You can find an online version of the PC Zone article about game quality here.
iGameTestScammer
If you’re looking for work in the game industry and come across a site called iGameTester.com (not linked so as to not associate my site with them), you’ll want to stay far away. Your first hint should be that the site is filled with generic images of gamers, and ridiculous claims of getting $100 an …
Theoretical Horn Tootings of my own
Theoretically I’m in PC Zone Magazine #186. If anyone reading this happens to live in the UK and can confirm/scan/mail me a copy (for which you will be generously compensated to the tune of 10 American Dollars above whatever it is that it costs to buy and ship). I’m sure that if you read this …
SWAT 4: Yarr Edition
When we last checked in with SWAT 4, it had decided to: Decide I’m a Pirate and install securom. Deactivate Windows Now securom has decided that I’m a pirate, again:
Best Change Practices
Check out this great article from Mike Russell on trends and keeping your QA staff from cycling, now!
Goodbye, Blogger.
As you can tell, I’ve switched to wordpress. Thanks once again to Aaron Gyes for helping with the site code. Various things are still broken, they will be fixed.
Thank you for calling. The SWAT team will bust your ass for pirating windows shortly
So today I bought SWAT 4‘s expansion pack, and ran Windows Update beforehand. Windows Update detected a new version of the nForce SATA driver for my motherboard, I agreed to install it, rebooted, began installing SWAT 4 (which I hadn’t previously installed.) when the SWAT 4 installer got around to installing securom (I assume) Windows …
Rom’s PC Gamer Rants
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.
Sam Circles Fail Before Passing it In
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 …