One day, he let his mother watch the 100th episode and from that, she decided to write an article about it.

As I listened to Sean, and as I watched my son game, it was always clear to me that the label of gamer was highly deficient. These kids are students of life. They are practicing life in a highly evolved and fast-paced world. Real life moves too slow mostly because of the ridiculous beliefs that the adults in their life call rules and reality. Sean described the skill set of a pro gamer as having the “mind of a chess master and the dexterity of a musician.” Now where can they learn that in school—maybe practicing their cursive writing, a completely obsolete skill, or learning the beginning and ending dates of some ridiculous war that people had no business fighting anyway. Most modern education is about memorizing and passing tests. It is about creating conformists that blindly obey authority figures. Sean jokes that it is a world of “all A’s for everyone.” But the gaming world is real and fair. You don’t win because your mother has connections. You don’t lose because a judge made some biased decision. You don’t get respect because you are older or have an advanced degree. You get respect because you won. And, you won because you deserved to win.

The whole article is totally awesome. Click here to read it now!

For a gamer who enjoys games, to be a tester is something I don’t think that many people would like. You have to be good at writing reports, finding bugs and basically everything else except gaming itself. I think Penny Arcade summed it up best:

It seems like a lot of people know that being a game tester is nothing but an illusion of a cool job, judging from some comments on the announcment on Playstation’s blog:

“I used to test games for Vivendi and it’s not as glamorous as some might think but it is fun to test new unreleased games, the downside being you’ll loathe that game as it’s released. You just need great communication skills to write bug reports and a explorative personality.”

“Game testing is an awful job, trust me. You will hate games and all living things by the time the game ships and the meat grinder is through with you.”

“Game testing isn’t as fun as people think. They have to spend hours upon hours trying to duplicate a glitch that only happened once.”

Haha, enjoy your “prize”!

Also taking a look through the cast list, I see the familiar face of Starslay3r, the chick from the first season of WCG Ultimate Gamer. Lets hope she can get through this show without shagging “just cuddling” with any of the guys in the house that have girlfriends.

Theres also a token guidette!!  I wonder if they’ll put the episodes up online too.

Head on over to “The Tester” website to view the trailer.

What do you think of Playstations new reality show?