Hi everyone. So today we're taking a look at a social network for gamers.
and it's called Player.Me and it's starting to really tear up the web
a lot of interest buzzing around about this particular social network.
Now essentially what does is it kind of combines
the best elements of Facebook, Twitter Google+, but really focused in on gaming
and part of that is to connect all of your social profiles
where you might be posting about the gaming that you're doing and kind of bring all that together in
one place
with one feed and then you can follow gamers
people playing games, people talking about games and you can get involved in their communities. And
because this is much more highly focused than, you know, any of those other boring old
social networks
there's actually a community going on here of people communicating, talking about games
sharing their loves
and you know, saying I'm broadcasting now for instance but it's all done in nice
automated
fashion because these elements are tied directly into Player.Me,
and your account. So for instance you can hook up Twitter,
YouTube, your Twitch account as well as obviously your Player.Me filter as well
and from the main screen you can kind of filter out all of this various types of information so if I just
want to see those people broadcasting on Twitch this morning
those are all the people right now broadcasting. So it very very easily
allows you to tie together all of these different elements
of your, you know, gaming across the web and bring it together in one place.
Now this particular service is currently in
early Alpha I believe so getting an invite
is a little bit more tricky. You'll have to join the beta list and wait and they are
releasing new invites every single day
or, if you leave a comment on this video
I've got 10 invites to give away. All you need to do
leave a comment. I'll be picking 10 winners at random on Monday
the 3rd of March I believe and you
can then get involved in Player.Me. So let's just quickly take a look around
shall we? So
this is my feed and so this is where all of my
current followers will appear and, like I say, you can use these filters up at
the top to
just pull up information and gaming related stuff coming just from
you know, the various networks like YouTube,
Twitter and so on. But also you can go through and you can kind of mark-up
the games that you yourself really enjoy, so again helping people to understand
what games you like playing and so whether they should follow you.
And so you can go through, as I've done, just pick
all of the games that you've really enjoyed, you know?
I didn't enjoy Battlefield 3, I did enjoy Assassins Creed Black Flag.
So you can go through and there are literally thousands of games in here.
If a game isn't available you can actually suggest it to the
Player.Me guys and they'll add the game in for you, which is really cool.
You can also go through and take a look at all of the various players who are currently
registered on Player.Me as well. So for instance there's Sean, he's actually the
creator of Player.Me
Pugh Guy Pie, Syndica Project, Blue Xenos,
and the the guys at PlayStation and you know, you can go through and you can
follow anyone who interests you.
You know, maybe you already know the particular game series they like playing
maybe you already follow them out on the web on things like Twitch or perhaps you're just
looking at discovering whole new
people to enjoy their gameplaying with. It's all here and it's all available.
There you can see us there as well. So the great thing with this network really is that it's
built for gamers by gamers, you know. These guys really understand gaming and
what we're kind of looking for, which ultimately is about consuming each other's
great gaming moments, you know? Engaging around those memories of great games
getting involved in live streams etcetera but more importantly having a network
that was built
for us. Not where gaming is kind of having to
fight against the other masses going on out there. This
is purely for the gamers and for that I applaud.
OK, so let's have a look at my actual profile
so if we come up to the top here we can go into my profile and what you get is a
really slick looking profile. So you've got a
nice cover image that you can place behind your
kind of avatar as well as being able to change your image. A lot of this is very similar to
social networks that you may know and love. Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etcetera.
But you can also then see all
of the types of accounts that this particular gamer
uses so you've got your Google+, your Steam account can be hooked up on to there as well,
links to your website or YouTube channel, all of that's available.
If you hook up your YouTube channel it will pull all your latest videos directly in
and sits them really nicely in this kind of breakout box.
It just looks so slick. You can then pop in your bio
as well as displaying your favourite games so people can get a flavour for kind of
the things you like playing.
I'm fairly diverse as you can see. Everything from shooters to strategy
games
to RPG's. So that's Player.Me
and like I say, if you want an invite to Player.Me, if you want access to the Alpha
now
do leave a comment and we'll be handing out 10 invites
on Monday March 3rd. Best
of luck there is no restriction on anywhere in the world
so do please everyone get involved, leave me those comments
and we'll pick 10 winners at random. Thanks for watching. We hope you enjoyed this video
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