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Do You Qualify to Test Guitar Hero Games?

Monday, December 22, 2008

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Do You Qualify to Test Guitar Hero Games?

Want to be a game tester at Activision? How about for Guitar Hero? Over at Gamasutra, there’s a new job posting listed under Infinity Ward/Activision, but the job description makes it pretty obvious that it’s really to test some Guitar Hero (or upcoming other music) game. How? All of the non-obvious qualifications (like great communication skills) [...]

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Update: Far Cry 2 PC Victimized by ‘The Jackal’s Curse’

Monday, December 15, 2008

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Update: <em>Far Cry 2</em> PC Victimized by ‘The Jackal’s Curse’

Update: Maybe, just maybe, GameCyte might have found a fix for The Jackal's Curse. Original Story: In the field of QA testing, they call it a showstopper -- a bug so bad that it makes the entire game unplayable. But on the official Far Cry 2 forums, a group of eighty users -- some of whom have [...]

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Ubisoft Outsources All Quality Assurance to India

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Ubisoft Outsources All Quality Assurance to India

In April of this year, Ubisoft purchased a studio from former subsidiary Gameloft in Pune, India. The press release announcing the move spun the purchase as a way to employ bright new talent. "India has a promising future in the videogame industry," it read, after describing how Pune, the "Oxford of the East," produces 80,000 [...]

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Beta Impressions: Good Old Games

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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Beta Impressions: Good Old Games

Ever since we spoke last month with CD Projekt's Tom Ohle about the company's new digital delivery system for recent-retro PC games, we've been looking forward to getting our hands on some Good Old Games. GOG.com, at present, is in the early stages of beta testing, looking to fully launch in September. GameCyte has had a [...]

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