How to make money testing Video Games?

I'm 14, I've been playing video games since I was a little child starting with a SNES and Super Mario World and a Game Gear with Sonic. I heard from my uncle it is possible to make money just testing video games. I would like to know if this is true and if there is a place I could do this.How to make money testing Video Games?
Yes, it's true, but it's not what you think. A day of testing for the 360 in development included turning the console on, timing how long it took to turn on, writing that answer down, turning it off, waiting 30 seconds, and doing it again, for 8 hours and $6/hour. You're not just sat in a seat, given Halo Wars or Final Fantasy XIII and said "play it 'til you have to go home".



If you're really interested, find games that are in open beta, join their forums, and contribute on there. You might make a contact at a game studio that may be able to help if you eventually do more to focus on a gaming career, like learning computer programming languages to help better understand development and coding. Then pray you'll find a job amongst 10,000 other applicants thinking testing and other video game careers are the same glamourous "paid to play games" jobs that they aren't.
Being a game tester is a quick and easy way to get a foot into the gaming business. However, it's not fun and games. It's an actual job with tons of responsibility



Say you get a job with Electronic Arts testing for the new Sims5 game( Hypothetical Situation!!).



You will be tasked with testing the game as its being made. So you may start off with a basic portion of the game with no textures...making sure it does certain things that the developers want. This stage could last months. Think about it. You'll be playing the same section over and over and over and over again. Plus you will need to write reports on any bugs, glitches or other information...so you'll need to be very organized and very literate.



Repeat this process at every stage of the game until it's done. Then do it again once the game gets to Alpha, which is the second stage...then again during Beta, and then again during playable demos for shows like E3, because you don't want to send a game out with glitches during a major show.



I'm not a game tester, just an IT tech, and sitting in the Pit area where a gameis being made and listening to a song fragment from a particular section of the game over and over for 8 hours a day for 7 days a week for maybe months on end SUCKS!



Plus, game testers are like Tellers or cashiers in retail....You get paid minimum wage.





The other way to test games is really not done any more. There used to be Market Research centers where you could sign up to provide feedback on products ranging from cell phones to video games to vacuums to coffee makers, etc. You might get paid anywhere from $25 to $200 or more plus a pizza or other lunch...Like I said though, places like this are rare..How to make money testing Video Games?
Not much at all, and it isn't going to be as fun as you think it is. You won't actually be playing the games much, just trying to find bugs and glitches. Probably doing the same things over and over a little different each time trying to see if it messes up. Also, testing is usually done as step to a job in game development, and you'd prob need some sort of experience first, something more than a 14 year old has.
Testing video game isn't simply just playing it and saying what you thought about it, that's what critics are for, i.e game informer. Video game testing actually involves hours of finding glitches and bugs and writing it down. Also takes note about if there's any imbalance in the game or things they need to add or take out.



Not trying to sound negative but it's the truth. No company is gonna pay money for some person to have fun with their latest game, anyone can do that.



If you're serious about being a game tester however, I would recommend that you continue playing video game and start learning how to write properly. Possibly even going into game development.How to make money testing Video Games?
There is no magical game studio that let's you walk in and just start testing games. If you want to test games you'd best go to college, get a degree, and work in quality control running debugging programs in the background as you "play" the game, logging bugs and typos ect...You will be looking at lines of code more than the actual game even then. But unless you are really lucky or know someone, don't count on walking into a job where you sit at home in the nude playing xbox all day and getting a fat check every week..Doesn't happen.
You pretty much have three routes to take...



1. You can go to school and specifically major in computer science, apply to a video game company like Electronic Arts and work your way into the testing department.



2. You can cold call companies to find out from their human resources department if they have a program allowing third-party outsiders to test their video games. This takes a lot of work and fees are negligible.



3. There are online sites out there that give you access to databases containing companies and contact info to apply for online game testing positions. Most of these jobs can be worked from home. It does, however, take some digging to find the higher paying ones.
if you live in America you can make money testing video games and I think you are old enough. You basically play a game for a few hours then write a review about it and give it a rating out of 5. The good thing about it is that you can earn money and play games before they come out!
Yeah, this is true and every 14yr old boy wants that job but you ll find when you get older so do many many other people and it's very hard to get and the job description goes more into it than playing a game and saying how fun it is, In reality you will probably never be one so look to doing more realistic things toward your future.
That was along time ago now they just send out demos and get feedback on them thats how they test!
no offence but be a gold farmer-you play a mmo then u sell fully levelled accounts of that game on ebay