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Nintendo Forcing Ads On Some YouTube “Let’s Play” Videos

Nintendo of America has muscled in on the world of “let’s play” videos on YouTube, inserting commercials into user-made clips that are of “a certain length”.


One Of The World’s Biggest Gaming Shows Taken Down By YouTube

Criticisms of YouTube’s automated “takedown” process are nothing new. The way Google handles complaints against clips, whether by rights holders or concerned parties, is basically to shoot first and ask questions later.


‘Francis’ Usually Makes You Laugh. He Might Make You Cry This Time.

You probably know Francis. The big guy’s best known as a highly combustible enthusiast who rants breathlessly on YouTube. Whatever the latest video game controversy or glory is — an always-on next-gen Xbox, the new SimCity or the latest WoW expansion — you can count on Francis to have an opinion.


Hilarious Dramatic Reading Of Bioshock Infinite’s YouTube Comments

The next title from Ken Levine and Irrational Games finally comes out next week. But the hype cycle for the next BioShock game has been spinning for a long while and people have been spouting out opinions every since the very first glimpse of BioShock Infinite. This video animates a bunch of vulgar, misinformed and straight-up weird YouTube comments about the game, with hilarious, dead-on voice acting bringing the trollery to life.


Don’t You Forget About This Fan-Made Remember Me Trailer

A video game about memory manipulation. Simple Minds’ hit 1985 single. A pairing of Capcom’s Remember Me and “Don’t You Forget About Me” seems so stunningly obvious that a tweet from writer Jordan Garland must have come from the collective unconscious of us all.


YouTube Shuts Down Popular Angry Video Game Nerd Channel

As of this morning, it appears that all of the videos on the well-liked Angry Video Game Nerd webseries have been removed from YouTube. Text on the landing page cites sever violations of YouTube terms of service, which seems to indicate that this wasn’t a voluntary move on Rolfe’s part. Update: It’s back!


Layoffs Reported At Machinima

The YouTube network Machinima seems to have laid off at least some of their staff. Details are still pouring in, and we’ll update this post as we hear more, but we’ve seen reports on Twitter about layoffs at the large video network.


Banned From Making Money, These YouTubers Share Their Stories

Last week, after I reported on Nick Reineke’s ban from YouTube’s AdSense service because of an over-zealous fan, two strange things happened. The first: just a few minutes after the story ran, Reineke sent me an email to say that YouTube had reinstated his AdSense account. They didn’t say a word; he just found that his account suddenly worked again.


YouTuber Banned From Making Money Because Of Overzealous Fan

Like a lot of people on YouTube, Nick Reineke makes videos about games. And like a lot of people on YouTube, he wants to make money off those videos. But he can’t. Last month, YouTube banned him from AdSense, the advertising service that most YouTubers use to make money.


Not Sure What’s Happening With Super Mario World And Chronic Gamer Girl, But It’s Damn Funny

The title of this video — which I got tipped to from the Twitter feed of Gawker colleague Adrian Chen — led me to believe it’d be focused on the pot-smoking antics of someone playing video games. There’s no marijuana in evidence but the proceedings are still pretty loopy.


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