Reason for Lack of Videos

You may have noticed a lack of videos lately on my gaming channel. I do have some videos I'm working on but I don't have an ETA on when they will be available. Right now I'm focused on editing another GTA V video. It's a continuation of the last one I released but I wanted to take some extra time on it. The reason being that in this particular segment we were playing a race mode and, sorry for spoiling it, but I get destroyed at the beginning. Because I'm currently the only one of our group with a capture device, I missed all the action, but the commentary from the other players was still kind of entertaining and detailed so I want to take some creative freedom to work with that and make the video more entertaining to watch. Unfortunately this comes at the worst time possible as there's stuff going on in my personal life that affects my editing time and it's just not possible for me to get this done in the amount of time it normally takes me. So you may have to wait a little longer. Hopefully it will all be worth it.

A few other small things I should update you all on. First of all, the "Til Talks" series, as you may have notice, has been put on hold. Again, for personal reasons, it was becoming increasingly impossible for me to do it on a weekly basis. The original concept was more of a test anyway and I've learned a few things about it. First of all, the editing and scripting involved was not ideal for me. I also recognize that this is a secondary channel I run for gaming and while the VLOGs were about gaming, it wasn't really something people seemed to want to watch, even if they may want to hear the discussion. To add to that point, I found that I didn't want to be in front of the camera for that channel. There's another channel I run where the VLOGs I make there it makes sense for me to be in front of the camera and connect to my subscribers, but it didn't really work for my gaming channel. 

So, as much as I like talking about news in the gaming industry and I will likely bring back the series, it is going to have a major format change. First of all, it won't be called "Til Talks". I might be reserving that title for something else on another potential channel. Secondly, I want to aim for something of a podcast-like format. It will likely involve another host I can discuss things with and the visual side of things will be some sort of game capture. It will just make things a lot easier for me and it will be faster to push out the content on a regular basis, especially since I'm not dealing with a camera and the setup it involves. There likely won't be a script either. I don't know when I'm going to do this but it will likely happen sometime later this year. For now, the outlet I'm using to talk about news in the gaming industry is my Facebook page.

Finally, the FAQ on this site has been slightly updated. Some people have asked how I make my videos so hopefully that will help. If your question has not been answered, leave a comment below or let me know on Facebook and Twitter and I'll try my best to answer.

Steam Machines and PlayStation Now at CES - Til Talks

I was having some issues with my editing software and uploading this to YouTube, otherwise this video would be up earlier. But Til Talks is back and there was some big news from CES this year. A lot of Steam Machines have been announced as well as Sony's PlayStation Now online game streaming service for older games.

Til Talks: YouTube Content ID Matching, Spike VGX Awards

YouTube enables content ID matching for Let's Players in a multi-channel network, and the Spike VGX Awards are in this episode.

Also, this will be the last VLOG for the year. Happy holidays, everyone!

Welcome to the New Site!

Let this be my official welcome to the beginning of this subsection of my main website dedicated to gaming content I make for the web! It's still a bit a work in progress so you may see some changes now and then to improve it. I know I should have been posting this stuff earlier, I've just been busy with things. I've also been slow on videos lately partly due to the same reason, but also because videos that I've already had planned are on hold because of an issue I'm having with YouTube which I'm not going to into much detail into this post.

Let's start off with some positive news. My YouTube channel for my game commentary has reached over 2,000 views! And while that may seem small, I still consider this channel to be fairly new and still growing so to me this is sort of an achievement. In case you missed it last weekend, here's the latest episode of Til Talks which covers Xbox One disc drive issues and Twitch streaming on consoles.

I've also started a new playlist if you're new to the channel that highlights select moments from previous videos so you get the best moments without having to watch long videos. More clips will be added to this playlist over time. Click here to watch the Quick Highlights playlist!

So far, it's looking like there likely won't be an episode of Til Talks this week which is in part due to a lack of major news I've found (unless something comes up), and scheduling issues for me. I do have the second episode of the Killing Floor Let's Play ready but, to be honest, I'm waiting for YouTube to approve the video for AdSense. If you don't know what that is, it basically allows me to put ads on my videos so I can monetize them for videos I get rights from the developer or publisher to use. Sometimes videos get stuck in review and YouTube support doesn't want to be any help so I have to wait it out. I might go into it more in a future post if anyone is interested in how it works. I might also set up a page specifically for my experience in getting approval from certain game companies regarding monetization on YouTube in case anyone finds it helpful.

Right now I'm editing some Grand Theft Auto V Let's Plays and solo videos that might show up soon on the channel so make sure you subscribe and follow me on Facebook and Twitter for more updates!