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6 Best Console Game Testing Practices to Wow Your Players

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Testing console games is crucial in ensuring your game functions as intended before releasing it to the audience. While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach for testing your console game, several best practices can help you test your console game thoroughly. But why is console game testing important?

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Epic Games taps AWS Local Zones for Fortnite’s NA-Central servers

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Starting today, Epic Games will be using AWS Local Zones to support its new NA-Central server region in Fortnite. Players in North America are assigned to whichever Fortnite server region will provide the best game experience. To learn more, see AWS Local Zones and read our guide on the Getting Started Resource Center.

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A Lookback: Video Game Overlays and Localization

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Long before physical instructional manuals were replaced in favor of in-game tutorials and storytelling, there was the overlay. The overlay; an almost forgotten accessory that used to be included with many games for second-generation video game consoles (1976 to 1992) like the Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Colecovision, and Vectrex.

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Console Game QA 101: Basic Tips & Strategies 

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Exciting as well as essential, game testing throughout the development process is a step that must be taken to deliver a high-quality experience to the user. The exhaustive testing process is the secret to the success of an incredible number of video games now available. Let’s dive in.

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7 Game Testing Techniques You Must Master to Achieve Infallible Console Games

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Game lovers can agree that the quality of a gaming application is the most exciting thing about a game setup. Game QA is an integral part of game development which ensures that the end products of console games are safeguarded against glitches.

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Xbox Game Pass Error Code 0x803f800e: How I Fixed It

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I tried playing Minecraft, Sea of Thieves, and some other games on my Xbox, but I started getting the game pass error code 0x803f800e. Unfortunately, even after trying to restart my console the problem persisted. So, I started troubleshooting it with the help of some veteran games.

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I don’t know if this is confidential or “too technical” for the blog, but how does developing for consoles actually work? As in, what is the workflow like? Obviously, you do all the coding on a PC, but how does the build get tested on consoles? How do you debug on consoles? It would be awesome if you could do a little rundown, but I understand if it’s not possible.

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A console dev kit is a lot like a networked computer fused with a game console. It has beefier hardware than the retail console (because it needs to be able to hold and run debug builds of the game). Game consoles today typically have plugins for Microsoft Visual studio to handle the remote debugging process.

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