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You may not have heard of WeGame, but when 19-year-old Jared Kim starts using the $3 million in financing he's raised for his newest venture, I'm sure you'll hear more soon.

His new site, a "YouTube for gamers," already has over 7,000 video uploads. This marks the UC Berkeley dropout's third startup. This nice sum of cash is actually the second round of financing, following $500,000 they raised previously. TechCrunch says that this round was led by True Ventures, with participation from HitForge, SoftTechVC and a number of individuals. Not bad, kid!

He says that right now, 13% of his users are uploading videos, while the rest are there to watch them all

On top of being a shining example for dropouts, Kim is also is also the founder of Yaqqer, a mobile location-based social network for college students, and Xinjun Software, an online gaming company in Shenzhen, China. Oh, and he speaks three languages. What a dick!

I kid. More power to him. He's done a pretty cool thing with WeGame. Gamers love to share video, and his free desktop capture client makes things easy. Of course, this does nothing for the console gamer, but they have other means to share videos with.

Do you see yourself using something like WeGame? 

[I <3 Tiff] 


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harrmonica's Avatar
harrmonica at 03/13/2008 14:36
everytime i see some ridiculously simple idea like this, i wonder why i didn't think of it...no wonder i'm not a millionaire.
Tiff's Avatar
Tiff at 03/13/2008 14:40
I HART DALE

also. I wish I had money.
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KamikazeTutor at 03/13/2008 14:45
It's like gaming webcomics, that's where the money is at, but what we saw nowadays are just lame copycats.

I'm ambiguous to this website, as I often visit http://speeddemosarchive.com/.
If he offers better quality than youtube... Well, why not? This is how stuff evolves, making the same crap as the others, but better.
Rockvillian's Avatar
Rockvillian at 03/13/2008 14:47
@harrmonica

You're either a person who has an idea and thinks, "I can make money off this" or a person who thinks, "I am thinking something."

Sorry, that didn't help at all :P
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Holyetheline at 03/13/2008 16:17
Wow that's pretty impressive. So young. Makes me wonder what the hell I've been doing with my life...
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harvey kartell at 03/13/2008 16:22
Half-assed resolution? Check.
Awful video scaling? Check.
Compression artefacts galore? Check.
4:3 or GTFO? Check.

It's hard to be a picture quality whore.
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mykie at 03/13/2008 17:10
So, how is this any different from Gametrailers?
Eschatos's Avatar
Eschatos at 03/13/2008 17:32
Or you could just go to Youtube...
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Boolean at 03/13/2008 19:00
I find it funny that there were a ton of these sites around BEFORE YouTube crushed them all, and now the brilliant idea is to have "YouTube...but limited to games". Nice idea, 10 years too late.
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Nigel at 03/13/2008 22:25
Hmmm... I do find it very interesting that he was able to raise that kind of capital when sites like YouTube & Gametrailers already allow gamers to upload their own vids. His capture software was probably the real prize... More power to him though!
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Dexter345 at 03/14/2008 00:09
Big ups for adding the SunsetRiders video up there.
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Gundampilotspaz at 03/14/2008 11:03
I tried the software WeGame provides in an attempt to capture and upload video. I decided to try it was the lowest system heavy game that I have on my computer, CS 1.6, to see how it affected the game. Framerate dropped to garbage. I didn't bother trying it with Team Fortress or, god help us, Call of Duty 4. There are issues like that to work out, and much more game support required, before WeGame becomes a contender.
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atheistium at 03/22/2008 22:50
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