The Testing Room

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our week of gaming/entertainment and then talk about Blizzard's Diversity Space Method. We discuss how gross this system can be, how inclusion is great for video games, and ho...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we finally get into the second episode of our D&D campaign! We are Roldras the Cleric (Christian), Deadalus the Druid (Alex), Chirrut the Monk (Preston) and Odin the DM (Jake). We were o...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our week of gaming/entertainment and then talk about our top 5 games that may have ruined their franchise or at least did them dirty. Listen in and let us know your own opinio...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our week of gaming/entertainment and then talk about the possible purchase of Ubisoft and what we feel that means and what impact it could have on the games. Listen in and let...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our week of gaming/entertainment as usual and then talk about ads becoming a huge push in the gaming world. Do you think it will affect you? Listen in and let us know your own...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our week of gaming and entertainment. Then we talk about how to make Halo better, what we think needs to be added, what doesn't need to happen, and Alex shares his dream of wh...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on two weeks of gaming and entertainment and the possible death of E3. In this weeks topic we discuss the purchase of SNK (Metal Slug, King of Fighters etc.), who bought it and w...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we finally get into the first episode of our D&D campaign! We are Roldras the Cleric (Christian), Deadalus the Druid (Alex), and Chirrut the Monk (Preston). We are on an escort mission w...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our weeks but before we do we somehow start talking about Alex almost breaking his foot twice, R. Kelly, and NXIVM but then quickly get into our week in games. In this weeks t...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we finally get to catch up with our weeks which go so long, we didn't even do a topic. Come and hang with us as we talk Elden Ring, Gran Turismo 7, Bloodborne, Kirby, and we play the name ga...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we have a very special episode! With Preston out on assignment (aka working) this week our friend Jake, from Two Worlds Podcast, shows Alex and Christian the ways of DnD and help them create...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our week with games and again Star Wars. The topic this week is brought on by the fact that the Nintendo 3DS and WiiU shop will be shutting down in a year and what actions lik...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our precious week in games; then discuss the effect of censorship in gaming. Big shout outs to our contributing artists, @damiencrow for the incredible music and @raevpet for...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our weeks and we talk about AAA (triple A) games and how they affect the gaming industry and are they just all the same? Listen in to find out! Big shout outs to our contribut...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our weeks and we think long and hard about all of these recent company buy outs and what it could mean for the gaming industry. Big shout outs to our contributing artists, @da...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our weeks and we take a listener/guest-host/friend's suggestion of consulting on IGN's new top 100 games of all time list and give our own top 10 of all time* while we were at...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our weeks and we discuss the biggest acquisition in video game history which is Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard. What does this mean for the company that is being bought?...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our weeks and we discuss if consoles are holding back progression in the video game industry and should they even exist? Should we all just have PCs instead? Listen in, be a p...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our weeks and talk about what makes a live service game. What could the industry do to make these games that so many love better? Also stick around to the end because Preston...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our last two weeks, and then jump into a topic about what we want from games in 2022 and what we want to do with our gaming time in 2022. It's a look forward and we can wait t...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our last two weeks, then dive into our Game of the Year List for The Testing Room. Last episode we set in stone our power bottom 5 and now we discuss what is THE Top 5 Games o...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we catch up on our last two weeks, then dive into our Difinitive Game of the Year List for The Testing Room. Last episode we gave our individual Top 10s but now we shall debate on what makes...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week we take a break and catch our breath as we prepare to give you THE TOP 10 Testing Room Podcast GAMES OF THE YEAR! Sorry for the delay but we thought about doing a VGA react episode and holy geez luckily we didn't....

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week we catch up from the holidays with our weeks and discuss our individual Top 10 Games of the Year! Warning we will be discussing spoilers for these games and I have add rough estimates on spoiler timings in our disc...

Welcome to The Testing Room where three of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and laugh about. This week inside The Testing Room we discuss our previous week in gaming, then talk about how we view games over time and if a bad game can turn good over time. Big shout outs to our contributing artists, @damiencrow for the...