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Dec 2022
1h 7m

Video Game Tester

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What does a game tester do? How to become one, and the leaps and bounds the industry takes to ensure video games are ready for action.  Is Roy fair in adding GameStop to his growing list of the most duplicitous places on Earth, or is GameStop’s existence a by-product of the growing greed of video game publishers? Two former video game testers (one a former G ... Show More
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