GiantBomb video reviews?

So, did GiantBomb stop making video reviews? I mean, I don't think I've seen one for a while, and considering GOWIII (one of the biggest games of the year) didn't get a video review, I assume they stopped making them. I only see Quick Looks now. What happened?

Quick Looks > Video Reviews

It's not like they make video reviews all that often.  It's usually just for the big games or games they feel really benefit from having their mechanics displayed.  I'm also surprised that they haven't done a GoW3 video review, but what can you do?

Video Reviews take a lot of time and resources to make, so they are generally very selective about he video's they review. The notability of the game isn't the only factor either, the amount of time they've got free at the time will also be a huge factor. In the case of GOWIII - perhaps both Drew and Vinny (the only two video guys) were busy doing other stuff, so didn't have time to edit a video review - which is very time consuming. Quick looks, on the other hand, require very little editing, and thus it is easy to get large quantities of them on the site.

Heavy Rain was the last one to get a video review and its quite recent. After that only 2 big games came out, FF13 (and we know whats going on with the written review, let alone a video one) and GOW3. Maybe a GOW3 review is still coming, those are a lot harder to edit than quicklooks as they have said many times

" Heavy Rain was the last one to get a video review and its quite recent. After that only 2 big games came out, FF13 (and we know whats going on with the written review, let alone a video one) and GOW3. Maybe a GOW3 review is still coming, those are a lot harder to edit than quicklooks as they have said many times "

" @Rhaknar said:

" Heavy Rain was the last one to get a video review and its quite recent. After that only 2 big games came out, FF13 (and we know whats going on with the written review, let alone a video one) and GOW3. Maybe a GOW3 review is still coming, those are a lot harder to edit than quicklooks as they have said many times "

Isn't Brad reviewing FF13? If you look at his achievements, it might take a long time before we see a review... "

Never bothered with them - they were just an abridged version of the text review delivered to camera.  QL + text was better.

" Quick Looks > Video Reviews "

" Never bothered with them - they were just an abridged version of the text review delivered to camera.  QL + text was better. "

" @Allprox said:

" Quick Looks > Video Reviews "

I disagree. With video reviews we get to see footage of the entire game (not just a section like in QLs) and they tell us whether the game is good or bad. "

" @alternate said:

" Never bothered with them - they were just an abridged version of the text review delivered to camera.  QL + text was better. "

Same here. A video review is only useful if it shows the reviewer playing the game, like AVGN. Oh, speaking of him, there's an example of why video reviews are so rare: they take a lot of time and effort to make. Whereas I can crap out a blog in a single night, video reviews can often take a week, by my estimate. (My estimate, of course, based on absolutely nothing.) "

Quick looks are pretty much the video reviews of the site. Also, all the editing with video reviews takes a lot of time.

WarioWare DIY just got a 43 minute video review.

You can only expect at most one video review a month, that's how it's always been on Giant Bomb. Also, you can't really compare Video Reviews and Quick Looks, that is just insulting to the Giant Bomb crew, it completely disregards their ability to professionally review video games.
 
And come on, I don't believe for a second that you honestly thought they had given up on doing video reviews just because they haven't done one since Heavy Rain.

I understand why there aren't many video reviews, but that doesn't stop me wishing that there were more of them.

I'm capable of reading, so I don't need a video of one of the Giant Bomb crew reading me the text review.  I'd rather just have text reviews and have them use all the time that would've been spent on a redundant video review on other content.

Tends to be they only do video reviews when the game really warrants that attention. 
 
And DARKSIDERS.