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Reality check: being a game tester sucks

MyGaming writes:

"So Sony's got their own reality show going live on PSN sometime soon. While Sony doing a reality show is a rather terrifying prospect all on its own (KAZ HIRAI GONE WILD!), the premise is much, much worse. In The Tester, gullible nerds will battle other gullible nerds for the very dubitable honour of being a game tester over at Sony's San Diego office. Yes, Sony is actually making a television event of giving someone a horrible, minimum wage job in QA."

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Hellsvacancy5998d ago (Edited 5998d ago )

Yeah but its Sony, they dont release tings like "Ponies Ponies Ponies IV: Ponie Ride Again" thats 4-the Wii\360

Not summin id wanna do, itd totally ruin Heavy Rain

ChickeyCantor5998d ago

You wont be doing much...all you do is play the same game over and over.

Lou Ferrigno5998d ago

a friend of mine was a tester for SCEA and he told me he got fired for tea bagging jack tretton online LOL. (true story).

but OT bieng a game tester period just SUX and kinda makes you bored and unapreciative of gaming .. a know a lot of ex testers for Devs such as EA,Sega, scea and a few others as well and they said that bieng a tester was stressfull on your gaming enjoyment.

BTW even though im a pro sony fan to an extent,i hope this show fails miserably even though ill watch it lol

Pillage055998d ago

i don't know if that story is true...but it still made me lmao.

Tito085998d ago (Edited 5998d ago )

U test the game u don't like..... I play videogames of course, but I never go the fanboy way, cause I see games as a hobby, not a passion, and I saw the trailer for that show, I would never get into that sh!t at all!!!!

nycredude5998d ago

I thnk I would much prefer a reality show about developing games. I just love to watch "making of" videos.

redonix765998d ago

One you're in as a tester and make connections...you'll have opportunities come up if you're skilled. Allot of producers here at EA started out as testers. Don't get me wrong...I wouldn't want to do it either...boring stuff really.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai70d ago (Edited 70d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio69d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing69d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9269d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit69d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing69d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9269d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."