The WeGame Blog

As some of you may know, our next video review will be #100. Can you believe it?

We wanted to make our 100th video review special, so we decided to delay it till this week. Sit tight, you’ll see why!

Hi WeGamers!

Today we’re happy to announce a very substantial update to the WeGame Client. The vast majority of user requests we receive are for the ability to record more games. While we’ve worked hard to get WeGame up to over 140 supported games (With your help!) client programmer Coedman has broken new ground: WeGame will now record almost every modern game. The client will continue to function how it always has, simply start it up, launch your game, then press your record hotkey. The only difference is that you will now be able to capture thousands of games, rather than dozens. Media from games which aren’t officially supported will show up as “Misc gaming” when uploaded to the site, but you can change them through the edit interface. We will also add official support for popular games so they will be sorted automatically.

Please either relaunch your client now to get the update automatically, or get the latest version from the download page. Then feel free to launch whatever game you please using DirectX 8 and higher or OpenGL, and the green client square should appear.  As always, if you encounter any problems don’t hesitate to contact help@wegame.com. Look forward to more great features in the near future!

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

Hi WeGamers!

The company is hiring paid part-time help to work from home in the field of writing, editing and data entry. Applicants should have a strong work ethic, an understanding of writing, and an interest in gaming. We are looking for a commitment of between 10 and 15 hours per week. Email jeff@wegame.com with your resume, pertinent experience and availability. Please contact me as soon as possible, as we hope to start work in the next week.

Jeff Gorndt
Community Evangelist
www.wegame.com

Hey WeGamers,

I hope everyone had a great winter holiday and New Years. The team at WeGame has been busy working on some exciting things for 2010. I just wanted to update the community on some of the things we’re working on right now.

WeGame.com V3 (new site)

We’re planning on releasing a new version of our site sometime this month. I can’t go in to too much detail at the moment, but there will be some major changes done to the site. We will be focusing on a few core features and some current features may not make it into this version. The site that you will see later this month will be a major change from what you see today.

WeGame Client V2 (new client)

The client hasn’t seen much action lately, but rest assured we’ve been putting some major work into it. We will be releasing a major update to the client shortly that will be addressing many issues users have been voicing. After this release, we will begin work on the next major version of the client that will be adding some really amazing features that I feel you will all enjoy. Stay tuned :)

Improved Community Feedback / Technical Support

Based on community feedback, we’ve been looking into how we can improve our current feedback & support system. We have some ideas on the drawing board and have been experimenting with some tools that can help reach our goals. We hope to roll some changes out over the next 1-2 months.

In conclusion, we have lot’s of things coming up here at WeGame. I hope everyone in the WeGame community has a great 2010!

- Jared

Hi WeGamers,

Are you a Left 4 Dead 2 master? We want your help! Our Left 4 Dead 2 section is looking pretty empty, and there are some things we’d love to have from you!

• Characters: Fill out what you know about the special infected and Ellis, Rochelle, Coach and Nick. Tell us their backstories in the wiki and link them to screenshots and videos so we’ll know what they look like.
• Locations: Tell us about the four campaigns of Left 4 Dead 2. Where do they take place?
• Items: What does adrenaline do? What about a laser sight? Which guns are in the game? Let everyone know by making the pages and filling them out!
• Guides: Write a guide about Left 4 Dead 2 achievements! Or Special Infected strategies! Or Game Modes! Whatever you know about, get in there and write it. Don’t know anything? Look it up!

Of course, in this case, education is not it’s own reward. If our system determines that you’re the top L4D2 editor on Sunday night at midnight, you’ll get the unique Left 4 Dead Master title, which you can proudly wear around the site to let everyone know that you are the best. Also, if you guys really impress us with your knowledge and hard work, we’ll be sure to have other special weekends. It’s up to you!

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

UPDATE:

Wow! You guys really knocked our socks off! The L4D2 section looks great, from the characters to the weapons to the guides. While I wish you could all be winners, fair is fair. The top users in this weekend’s DB Weekend Challenge are:

• PenguinGeneral
• Theineffablebob
• Thanatos

PenguinGeneral will be receiving the Left 4 Dead Master title as proof of his hard work. Look forward to more fun weekends!

-Jeff

Hi WeGamers!

It’s only been twelve hours since the release of our database and we’re already thrilled with your contributions. While your enthusiasm has knocked us off our feet, your execution has left something to be desired. As such, I’ve decided to put together a series of short tutorials on how to really make your pages beautiful. Today’s lesson is images!

Adding images:

Let’s say you’ve just finished writing up everything there is to know about Master Chief. Your page is an encyclopedic codex of all information there is to know on Ol’ John… but your page still lacks something!

Of course! Images! It’s impossible to truly understand Master Chief until you see a big green metal man. Let’s see what we can do about that… First, let’s go to the upper right and search for Master Chief and see what turns up:

Great! There are plenty of pictures of Master Chief. Now let’s pick one and go to the image. There’s something new there on the right! It’s an “Add related page” box. You can click it and add an image (Or video!) to any existing page in the database.

We just type in Master Chief, and select him from the auto-complete! Great! But what if there weren’t any pictures of MC on the site? Or what if you already have a great picture of Master Chief you want to use? That’s easy too! Under the Master Chief screenshots page, click the “Upload screenshots” button. We’re greeted with this:

That looks familiar! Whatever screenshots you upload will automatically be associated with Master Chief. Now let’s go back to the page and put the finishing touches on it. Click the “Screenshots” tab, find the best screenshot you can, then hover the box in the lower right. Click the option that’s appropriate for the image, generally “Set as default image” and there you go!

Great! You’re done!

A picture is worth a thousand words,

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

Hey WeGamers,

Today we are very excited to bring you a major addition to WeGame. We call it the WeGame Database. Very original name, huh? :)

Overview

The WeGame Database is exactly what you think it is: a database/encyclopedia about anything and everything related to video games. We’ve broken the Database into 8 categories:

Games
Video games from all kinds of platforms & systems.

Guides
FAQs, Walkthroughs, Cheats, or pretty much any form of longer text content.

Characters
Your favorite (or most hated) characters in video games.

Items
All the neat items, loot, weapons, etc, that you find in your gaming adventures.

Locations
Cities, dungeons, zones, areas, etc…

Platforms
PC, Xbox 360, Sega Saturn, etc…

Franchises
Star Wars, Disney, Mario, etc…

Companies
Nintendo, Valve Software, Infinity Ward, etc…

Structured Content

With the WeGame, every piece of content in the Database is related to another piece. For example, here are some things you will be able to look up:

• Who are the Left 4 Dead characters?
• Who are Zoey’s Enemies in Left 4 Dead?
• Which games does the Crowbar appear in?
• What are the cheat codes for The Sims?
• I want to know everything about Halo 3.

Powered By You

The coolest thing is all of this content can be created or edited by anyone in the WeGame community, much like Wikipedia. When you browse around the Database, you will find numerous ‘Edit’ and ‘Suggest’ buttons scattered around the page. Simply click Edit/Suggest and you’re on your way to making WeGame the best video game site out there! We will make a follow-up post in a few days to go into more detail on how the Database editing system works, but for now, have fun with it! In order to maintain a high standard of quality, Edits or Suggestions made by users will be reviewed before being published. Which brings us to our next topic! If you were wondering, editing the Database does give you WeGame gold and experience :)

WeGame Editors

In the coming days, we will be announcing our first batch of WeGame Editors. Editors have special abilities like:

• Create & edit all Database content without going through the approval process. Changes are instant!
• See all the Edits & Suggestions coming from the community and approve/deny them.

If you are interested in becoming a WeGame Editor, please post a comment on this post with your WeGame username and why you think you would be a good editor. Editors are expected to be very active contributors of the site!

Conclusion

Eventually, we want the Database to be your destination for finding anything you would want to know about video games. I’m confident with the power of the WeGame community, we’ll reach that goal in a very short period of time. We hope you enjoy the Database. Please contribute content if you happen to see something we’re missing, which at the start, is a lot! If you find any bugs, please e-mail us at help@wegame.com.

“WeGame licks you now.”

Hey WeGamers,

We released Playlists on WeGame a while back so you can organize your favorite content. Until now there wasn’t a way to easily discover other users’ playlists. That’s why we just released the Playlists page. On the Playlists page, you can browse some of the best playlists on WeGame and filter them by popularity or creation date. Have fun discovering the best playlists on WeGame. Below are some of my favorites:

• Champions Online Lookalikes
• Games Wallpapers
• StarCraft 2 Lego

Update: Video uploading has been restored.

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Hi WeGamers,

We’re experiencing some issues with video uploading at this time. We will look into it and update this post when it has been resolved.

Thanks,
Jared

Hi WeGamers!

WeGame developer Coedman has been hard at work at the WeGame anvil forging out a new WeGame client! This version of the client has a new sound recording system that should allow Vista and Windows 7 users to more reliably capture sound, even on computers that don’t have Stereo Mix devices.

In addition, the client now supports Borderlands.

To get the latest version of the client you can either launch your current version, or download it here. If you encounter any problems at all, please contact help@wegame.com.

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com