Yesterday, the Vimeo staff blog announced that they will no longer allow “game videos” to be uploaded to the site. A direct quote from the blog explains this; “The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of player vs player battles, raids, fraps, or any other video gaming videos that simply depict individuals playing a video game. Videos falling into this category will be subject to deletion as of September 1st; new videos of this type will be removed.”

However, Vimeo did say that machinima will be allowed on the site; “We currently do not feel that Machinima films fall under the category of gaming videos described above and, therefore, assuming compliance with our site’s general terms & conditions, we will continue to accept such videos on Vimeo. We are not, at this time, banning films that fall into the Machinima genre.”

If you’re one of our audience members or, a TGM Affiliate who uses Vimeo there are options to look at. Many of you make machinima only so, this should not be an issue. The Geek Media always has heavily supported We Game and, encourage any of you Vimeo users who do post these types of videos to head over to We Game.