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You asked a while back how i got my job at konami, and said you were interested in getting a job like that.
Well, heres a list of numbers for all the companies. Hope this helps...

3DO Oh, forget it, like your gonna want to work for them.

Acclaim - 020 7344 5000
Activison - 01895 456 789
Capcom - 020 7925 2565
Codemasters - 01925 814 132
Eidos - 0121 356 0831
EA - 0870 243 2435
infogrames 020 8222 9700
Konami - 020 8582 5573
Midway - 020 7983 4488
Squaresoft - sorry, couldn't find their number
Sony Europe - 0990 998 877
Take 2 - 0870 124 1222
THQ - 01483 767 656
Ubi Soft - 020 8944 9000

No most have testing agencies, who have a team of testers and have certain games taken to them, there may be free-lancers, but i would suspect unless you mean contractors there pretty rare as companies dont want any of there preciosu game's info leakign out

Dont they have free-lance testers? Who are no employed by only one company, but instead go around many different ones.

Nope, but e-mail them on the web or ask if they know anywhere that does that. Naughty Dog are normally open for games testers.

I phoned those numbers, but no one seems to do testing in house, do u have any numbers for games testing companies?

Pro Evo wrote:
> Im interested in going into the journalism side of gaming, and most of the
> information i read says that some sort of experience is needed, do you think
> that getting some experience at one of these places in the hols would help?


More likely that you'll have needed to write for a school magazine or a local paper, but it wouldn't hurt to ask one of them if you could hang around and watch what they do.

cool i could ring one of them when im older and see if they would give us a job :P

MrMatrix wrote:
> i ot an A in english and english literature!
im set 2 go hopefully - i want to
> either get a job in game designing and the ideas behind it or in a games
> magazine
MM

Game magazines thats what I want to do. In one issue of PSi2 they had a great feature on it and it made up my mind, thats what I want to do.

Thats what is great about SR (as well as GAD and other people with the same interests) its all practice. Every review you write, your gaining experience. I have written 52 so thats quite a lot of practice. Since I have joined my English has improved a lot, and so has my game and DVd collection.

Im interested in going into the journalism side of gaming, and most of the information i read says that some sort of experience is needed, do you think that getting some experience at one of these places in the hols would help?

You recommended it to someone who asked in another thread, but it was about 8 pages down or so, so I went and got it.

[?] Oh, right.