PickVidsBest Gaming culture & analysis Videos
The 92 Gaming culture & analysis videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 9 intermediate, 80 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include Folding Ideas, People Make Games, Accursed Farms.
Cities Without People
Jacob Geller's video essay on empty cities and what they say about our relationship to places, using games, literature and aerial imagery.
The Fall of Minecraft's 2b2t
FitMC tells how the Nocom exploit let griefers track players across Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, 2b2t, and the fallout that followed.
Google's DeepMind AI vs StarCraft 2 World Champion - Game 1
ArtosisTV's commentary on Game 1 of DeepMind's AlphaStar (Protoss) against top Zerg player Serral at Blizzcon 2019.
Hareraiser (The Worst Game Ever) - Stuart Ashen - Norwich Gaming Festival 2017
Stuart Ashen presents a talk at the 2017 Norwich Gaming Festival on Hareraiser, a notoriously bad video game tied to the Masquerade treasure hunt.
I Got Bribed By Casinos, But I Exposed Them Instead
Coffeezilla recounts being offered a $20k bounty to expose a Counter-Strike skin casino, then investigates and finds a different story.
Training an unbeatable AI in Trackmania
Yosh trains a reinforcement learning agent to drive Trackmania until he can no longer beat it.
How the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was Found
SalC1 explains how the seed behind the Minecraft title screen panorama was found, using community effort and the Minecraft@Home project.
Copyright Deadlock (The Jimquisition)
A Jimquisition episode by Jim Sterling demonstrating the Copyright Deadlock, where a video includes footage owned by several companies so that competing YouTube Content ID claims cancel each other out.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks
The secret project cutscene for The Planetary Datalinks from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, featuring a quote about free information flow as the safeguard against tyranny.
The Witness - A Great Game That You Shouldn't Play
Joseph Anderson's long critique of Jonathan Blow's puzzle game The Witness, covering its gameplay, its hundreds of puzzles and its philosophical pretensions.
Does High FPS make you a better gamer? Ft. Shroud - FINAL ANSWER
Linus Tech Tips tests whether higher frame rates and refresh rates improve gaming performance, using Shroud and other players on aim and reaction tests at 60, 144 and 240Hz.
[Minecraft Computer Engineering] - Quad-Core Redstone Computer v5.0 [12k sub special!]
A showcase of the author's fifth-generation quad-core computer built entirely from Minecraft redstone, after two years of development.
VACNET Anti-cheat
3kliksphilip summarizes Valve's GDC talk on VACNet, a deep-learning system that flags CS:GO cheaters and feeds the Overwatch review queue.
Resident Evil Village PC DRM: Cracked Code Really Does Run Better - Confirmed
Digital Foundry investigates why Resident Evil Village on PC runs worse with Capcom's Denuvo DRM than a cracked version.
Armok Invaders
A short demo of a playable Space Invaders game built inside Dwarf Fortress, with a downloadable map.
TASBot plays Brain Age by micro500, xy2_ in 20:06 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - Part 154
A tool-assisted run of Brain Age by TASBot, shown at Awesome Games Done Quick 2016.
New NES Tetris Technique: Faster Than Hypertapping!
aGameScout explains rolling, the third major NES Tetris playstyle, in which players tap the back of the controller to move pieces faster than hypertapping.
The Immoral Design of Diablo Immortal
Josh Strife Hayes critiques Diablo Immortal's monetization, arguing it is a gacha game in a Diablo skin with predatory spending mechanics.
Hotline Miami Soundtrack (Full)
A full upload of the Hotline Miami game soundtrack, with tracklist timestamps, featuring synthwave and electronic artists such as Perturbator, M O O N and Jasper Byrne.
Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market
Karl Jobst investigates the retro video game bubble, examining who caused it, who profits, and how graders and auction houses like Wata Games and Heritage inflate prices.
MMO Economies - Hyperinflation, Reserve Currencies & You! - Extra Credits
An Extra Credits episode on how MMO economies get overrun by inflation when players can mint unlimited gold by killing monsters.
First NetHack bot ascension
The BotHack NetHack bot wins the game for the first time with no cheats or human intervention, in a run lasting about 3.5 hours.
Code Monkey
A fan-made music video for Jonathan Coulton's song 'Code Monkey', about the life of a programmer, using World of Warcraft footage.
Sacrifices to the Church of Nintendo
EmpLemon examines Nintendo's brand-protection strategy, its aggressive legal actions and its relationship with fans and creators.