youtube-dl: [gamespot] Add support for video embeds in article pages(was: RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract data video)

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GameSpot.com extraction broken, due to site change I assume.

Example URL: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-2-receives-new-ps4-trailer/1100-6454469/


PS D:\> youtube-dl --verbose --ignore-config "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-2-receives-new-ps4-trailer/1100-6454469/"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '--ignore-config', 'https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-last-of-us-2-receives-new-ps4-trailer/1100-6454469/']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.29
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.16299
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4, ffprobe 3.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[GameSpot] 6454469: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract data video; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpk63cqkyt\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpk63cqkyt\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 434, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpk63cqkyt\build\youtube_dl\extractor\gamespot.py", line 44, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpk63cqkyt\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 797, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract data video; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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in the next release, article pages will be supported and formats that has ads will be skipped.