Binerexis was telling me we needed to leverage social media more, so I figured what better way to do so than continuous streams of bribes? In addition to our ongoing Twitter-based free games giveaway, I’d like to also announce some other fun promotions. And since I’ve already taken the liberty of doing so on my [...]

I watch too much YouTube. While on the one hand that’s probably why I’m here, on the other it allows me to learn a little about the mindset of people in the gaming video community. I’ve noticed something recently, a trend in how FPS YT communities evolve. I thought I’d share it here with you so that if you decide to create a channel of your own, you’ll have a little more luck picking the right way to go about it.

The first consideration is what game you want to post. For my purposes here, I’m going with the three top YT games: Call of Duty, Battlefield and Team Fortress 2. Coincidentally, that’s also their order of popularity. Not quite as coincidentally, that is the order of innovation you need to put forward to get your foot in the door. It’s interesting that the TF2 community is as old as the CoD one, but there’s much less effort (comparatively) to become a popular TF2 commentator than it is for CoD. No disrespect to our Omniscient Overlord WiNGSPANTT, whose videos always have high production values, but if you want to impress the sixteen year old masses watching CoD, you better really stretch yourself beyond the limits you thought you had.

In this Top Tier Tips, WiNGSPANTT answers questions about Brotherhood, love, and TROLOLOLOLOL.

What I propose is a monthly or weekly* take on the state of the YouTube community from an outsider’s perspective. I’m not a part of it, else I’d not have time for this or any real writing, but I watch a fair bit of it. If this is something all of you want, I’ll undertake it and cast my net wide, searching for the biggest names I’m not yet aware of, comb them for the overall feelings in the community as I see them, and report them here to you with my commentary on the commentary community (and I’m done with that word now).

Due to completely foreseen circumstances, I’ll be posting the Polycount Madness Day 5 update tomorrow.

As a token of my regret and good will, I offer you this video. Consider it a better version of Meet the Spy.

While I’ve certainly learned from experience, experience requires time, effort, and thought. Not particularly willing to dedicate all three of those resources to Starcraft, I discovered two YouTube channels with incredible educational and (dare I say it?) entertainment value.

This isn’t anything major, but I’ve updated the Spy Lesson video pages to fall into a much more organized list, allowing you to view every video directly from this site. Additionally, each video is ordered by the map on which it was recorded, so you can compare my abject failure from multiple angles at once.