*promote Good luck Empire

Promoting this Sift Talk post - promote requested by eric3579.

Also video is really well done. Although im not a gamer.

Thank you eric3579 I'm trying to do a god job with it.

Some (hopefully) constructive criticism.

I'm not sure about the premise. I don't really watch videos for facts (they're almost always better conveyed by text or infographics). I watch videos for opinion or analysis or insight.

Nevertheless, it's well executed and I wish you well.

Now that's just silly.

You don't watch videos for facts? Are you sure?

You watch news for opinion? Are you sure?

Indeed Empire's channel is very well executed.
This is exactly why a person like myself will be subscribed to it.

I just want to know what's happening. No editorials please.

HAWKEN FER LIIIIFE!!!

I would say I am a gamer, although mostly on consoles these days because I can't afford a good gaming computer, and I thought it was a great, informative video. My only suggestion, I could have used a little bit of your impressions of newly released games, I prefer more of a technical analysis than opinion. It was nice to get some straight facts rather than just opinion. Reminded me of blue's news, in video form....and that's a good thing.
Good luck @EMPIRE!

Also if anyone's playing Hearthstone let me know

I don't watch news, I read it.

And while, I don't really have a problem with news presented in video form, I think the whole "objective review" idea is just retarded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMU1_-_4WKg

Well, it is constructive.

But, that would go against the entire point of the channel, so I can't really accept it

But thank you anyway

Thank you

And I hope all goes well with the rest of Hawken's development.

Thank you

Actually, I've been a Blue's News fan for many years, and it is in fact one of the sources I use for info, because of the neatly presented way the news are, in chronological order.

Haaaa... but you didn't really see any review on my channel now, did you?

Reviews are inherently biased and a mere opinion.

I must quote myself, from the "about" section of my channel:

Disclaimer:

- If the creator and producer of Factual Gamer ever decides to create an opinion-based YouTube show, he will do so in a completely separate channel, with a differentiated name, as so to maintain the editorial integrity of Factual Gamer.

- Factual Gamer can accept sponsorship and advertising, because none of the content being presented could be influenced financially. When and if, any such sponsored content or advertising is shown, it will be accompanied by text explicitly stating this fact (ex. the words "sponsored advertising" in the corner of the video).

Factual Gamer itself will never have content that can be influenced by opinion. And reviews fall under that category. At best I could do a preview of a game, simply talking about the game, who made it, what kind of game it is, showing gameplay, etc. But never, if it's good or bad, and in what amount. I will leave that to the viewer.

The only way to win this game is to not play it at all.

Yeah, that wasn't really directed at you, but more at the whole "give us an objective review" cry that's been going around.

For the record, my two favourite gaming sites are bluesnews (that's how I found the sift in the first place) and rockpapershotgun, for different reasons obviously.

The reason I like blues and the issue I have with news in video format is time. I can read a days page of news on blues in well under a minute, spawning tabs of interest as I go.

Your video is 6:25 long.
First up is the BAFTA awards: it's a fairly dry list with no commentary on it. If I want that information, a link to http://awards.bafta.org/award/2015/games is a much more succinct way of presenting it.

Then some news about Hawken: cool! Hawken is awesome and I've been hoping to hear more about it.

Elder Scrolls: don't care.
Nintendo licensing agreement: don't care
Nintendo's next console: don't care

Steam refund policy change: Interesting.
Kojima to leave Konami: interesting.

The point is not what I care about or don't care about, that's going to be different for everyone. The point is I have to fast forward to the news I'm interested in and as presented, it's an inherently bad format for that.

Maybe instead of one long video have a series of shorter videos linked via annotations? Or even timecodes in the description. That way, we can jump to the stories we're interested in.

HTH

I would second @ChaosEngine about the time code idea for my two cents. A table of contents is always appreciated.

Well, the several short videos with a single news item each is completely off the table. Sites like IGN and Gamespot do that, and I hate it and find it annoying and severely time wasteful.

The time code thing I have to think about it...

I completely understand it from a viewer's perspective, but there are other things I have to consider, like having the channel rank badly on YouTube, and not show up relevantly in searches, because people watch only a very small percentage of the video.

But I might do it at least once, and see how it goes. I could be completely wrong, what the hell do I know anyway? I've been doing this for little over a month lol

Curios to know how much time goes into each video and how that time is spent on different parts from gather info to actual creating the video or however it all works.

oh well... it actually takes quite a bit. let's start backwards:

posting links to the video on social networks, twitter, promotion and stuff like that: 20 min

adding captions, notes, etc to the video: 10 minutes

uploading the video and filling in the information: 10 minutes

rendering the video: 2 hours

(this week I made an editing mistake and had to change and re-render the video which took and additional 2 hours)

actually editing the video: about 5 hours (which could be less, if the editing preview wasn't so unresponsive and slow now. it makes the work really frustrating and inefficient)

making the animated talking logo in after effects: 15 minutes

recording the voice-over: 1 hour (I make a few mistakes, and then I also need add a few filters to make it sound better, 'cause my mic is kinda crappy)

collecting all the videos I need for backdrops: 2/3 hours

actually writing the script while reading the news I had previously chosen: 2 hours

getting all the release dates down: 1 hour

picking and choosing the news I'll be talking about: 1 hour spread throughout several days.

So on total: around 15 hours. Obviously not all on the same day. Most of it on fridays.