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It has taken a while but AT&T has finally come out with an iPhone app for U-Verse.

In my last post I explained the requirements for game testing and where to look for a job as a game tester. In this post I’ll focus on the Downs to game testing because I think it makes sense to explain the bad stuff before getting into the good parts to the job. Before diving into this post I’ve got another video for you to watch. This is from X-Play and was a feature from a few months ago.

A few years ago I left my job as a Recording Engineer and started a new life as a Video Game Tester. Everyone that knew me was jealous because I’d be getting paid to play video games. Sounds like a fun job right? Well over the next few posts I’m going to talk about the basic of game testing. But first watch this informative video!

The Macbook Air is now available through Apple’s website and I have to admit that it does look sleek. The problem I have with the laptop (referred to as the ‘MBA’ by Mac lovers) is that it isn’t meant for everyday laptop users.

Recently my fiance and I took a trip with her family to Jamaica. We were there for a week and stayed at the Holiday Inn Montego Bay resort and BOY did we have a lot of fun!

Portal, a apart of the Orange Box edition of Half Life 2, is a pretty fun game. It’s not a 1st person shooter; it’s a puzzle game. The basic story is that your character is in secret testing facility and is being forced to figure out how to get through a set of rooms using a ‘Portal Gun.’ The gun is able to shoot large holes in walls and floors that are big enough to walk through, making it easy to get from one side of a room to the other by just shooting a hole in a wall next to you and shooting a wall at the other end of the room. Below is a screen shot of what I’m talking about.

Cloverfield is out today but more importantly just before the movie starts there is a new trailer for Star Trek XI.

After I got U-Verse installed the day after Christmas my fiance and I started to notice that shows would freeze for up to 10 minutes, that the picture would become distorted and blocky with pixels, and that the HD stations would have a hard time keeping up with the picture (we’d get colors from past frames in the new frame making things look like an acid trip).When the install tech left he gave me his card and told me to call him if I had any problems so I gave him a ring. After answering the basic questions he asked me to go to the U-Verse router’s information page. After reading out some of the numbers that were on the screen it was decided that the phone line going into my apartment was bad. Here’s a screen shot of that screen.