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/or laugh about. This week we talk about the 2023 VGA winners and our predictions on those.  Listen in and let us know your own opinion. Don't forget to send comments and questions to testingroompod@gmail.com. Also if you have a game...

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/or laugh about. This week we have our annual break to because our dude Christian got married!!! We didn't have the time unfortunately to record an episode this week but I was able to grab a clip form 1/3/22 of our predictions and hopes f...

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/or laugh about. This week we get into some sports talk in the beginning but then we talk about our short weeks(we recorded this podcast a few days after the last episode). After that we talk about what we predict from 2023. Will the Bliz...

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/or laugh about. This week, since the holidays are upon us, we talk about foods in video games. Games that had great looking food, ones that implemented food/cooking in games and then games that are about the foods!  Listen in and le...

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/or laugh about. This week Christian is back to talk about the 30 games he has beaten and then we talk about the nominees from the Video Game Awards (aka Keighleys) are they bad or good?   Listen in and let us know your own opin...

Welcome to The Testing Room where today two of the gaming industry’s best consultants (to never consult on a game) bring fun new topics each week to talk, debate, and/or laugh about. This week daddy Christian is out so Alex and Preston get to do what we've always done since we met and talk TV shows and Movies. We talked about ones from this year that disappointed, were middling and ones that were...

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/or laugh about. This week is our titular 69th episode (very noice!), where we talk about underrated game mechanics that weren't used again or at least not often. Some examples are the Dead Space navigation system or maybe even 3D on rail...

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/or laugh about. This week we talk about all the games we've played and shows/movies we watched. Then we ask a serious question, will physical media die? Some of us on the podcast love our older media but the true question is what will ha...

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/or laugh about. This week we talk about all the games we've played and shows/movies we watched. Then we get into the topic of have the trophies and achievements in these games made them worst? Has it ruined some of our experiences or did...

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 get into the 6th 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 dive deeper into...

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/or laugh about. This week we talk about all the games we've played and shows/movies we watched. Then we talking about the idea of reboot/remake/remastered games. Is it ever too early to do it (horizon zero dawn), what  were some goo...

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/or laugh about. This week we talk about all the games we've played and shows/movies we watched. After that we talk about what makes a good horror game, what makes a game a horror game and what are our favorite/scariest moments in horror...

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/or laugh about. This week we talk about all the games we've played and shows/movies we watched. After that we talk about video game leaks with the recent the recent GTA6 leaks being the catalyst of how a company can be hit hard by such l...

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 talk about all the fun games we've played and shows/movies we watched. After that we talk about how games are announced and released. Some drop demos and its released within the year, some are announced years ou...

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 talk about all the fun games we've played and shows/movies we watched. After that we talk about "Games as a service" (Gaas) and how mainly it has effected Halo, how to do it properly and why it's happening. &nbs...

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 talk about all the fun games we've played and shows/movies we watched. After that we talk about toxicity whether it's someone getting banned in tournaments from tea bagging, are we automatically to assume that 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 get into the fifth 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 finally go afte...

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 talk about all the fun games we've played and shows/movies we watched. After that we talk/consult on whether gamers are entitled to have their games on their platforms or should they need to switch when the time...

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 talk about all the fun games we've played, shows we watched and a seagull shitting in Preston's car. After that we talk/consult on Nintendo's future. We talk about what we think Nintendo should do and what we al...

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 give you a long cold open requested by our great friend who gave us our previous topic and their "dark horse" list and then we dive deep into our weeks. After that we give our list of top 5 worst/annoying monste...

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 give you a big week to catch up on and then we talk about the dark horse games of the year and dark horse duds. Listen in and let us know your own opinion. Don't forget to send comments and questions to testingr...

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 fourth 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). Before we...

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 talk about the newest NFT garbage because it's going to be a video game console called The Polium One and we also talk about Web3. Listen in and let us know your own opinion. Don't forget to send comments and qu...

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 for a year now! This week we celebrate the 1st year anniversary of this very podcast. We've known each other for years and at a certain point we thought why not make an excuse every week to hang out, shoot the shit with our g...

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 talk about what qualifies a game to be classic. What does it take to become a legendary game? What is the criteria that a game needs to be iconic and/or timeless? We give our opinions of course and what we would...