WeGame Launches As YouTube For Gamers

A new website called WeGame provides both the place and the tools for gamers to share screencasts of their favorite in-game moments. As the founder puts it, the launch of WeGame is like launching YouTube and giving everyone video cameras, because WeGame not only provides a place to upload and share videos, it provides the tools necessary to create the video content itself. Capturing screencasts of gameplay is currently difficult because recording programs hog system resources, thereby slowing down the games themselves. They also don’t tend to output video files that are compressed well enough for upload. And if you’ve ever tried to convert and resize video clips, you know how much of a pain that is. 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. To record a screencast, just hit a special key while in-game to start and then stop recording. Once you’ve exited the game, you can click the “Upload to WeGame” button, choose a title and description, and the client will convert the AVI file to Flash and publish to the WeGame site directly. The WeGame site itself is much like YouTube, except with a strict focus on game screencasts. You can browse, search, and comment on videos just like you’d expect from a video sharing site.
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