WeGame has just launched, says TechCrunch, and it looks like it could be really useful, specifically to PC gamers. I'm guessing the founder, one 19 year old Jared Kim, is a Warcrafter or similar: WeGame is not only a repository for gaming clips and vids, but also offers capture software that won't slow down your machine while playing. S'free, too.
WeGame steps in by providing a free desktop client that works tightly with DirectX to capture screencasts from within games without slowing them down significantly. It also outputs those screencasts to AVI files that are small enough for quick uploading to the web, a process that occurs from within the client itself.
... says TC.
There are limits to the client at the moment: it's Windows-only, and it only works with 16 games so far. More coming, of course, as well as a recorder for casual, browser-based games, which is pretty curious. They're not exactly known for their high action, but still, you never know how creative folks can be.
Course, any sorts of game video can be uploaded, so on writing this, there's stuff ranging from Guitar Hero to Call of Duty and (obviously) World of Warcraft. Here's one of a WoW shadow Priest going up against 3 rogues at once.. and winning. Also.. no keypresses, all mouseclicks! Bizarre.
Cool Quake-related endnote: one of the company's advisors is Dennis Fong ... a.k.a Thresh. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while.
Neato stuff, though sadly they're still using a smallish Flash window. Better than YouTube, but Stage6.com is still my personal choice for sharp high res WoW vids, there are already plenty there. :)
Posted by: Pete | January 11, 2008 at 15:42
Either those three are the Worst Rogues Evah or that's a set up. I'm betting the latter, given their ability to run like head chickens even when NOT feared :)
Posted by: Ian Betteridge | January 14, 2008 at 09:51