Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
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| Born |
Benjamin Richard Croshaw 24 May 1983 Rugby, Warwickshire, England |
| Residence | San Francisco, CA, United States |
| Occupation | Video game critic, Humorist, Novelist |
| Employer | The Escapist, Hyper, PC Gamer |
| Known for | Zero Punctuation |
| Website | Fully Ramblomatic |
Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983) is a British comedic writer, video game journalist, humorist, author, and video game developer. He is best known for his acerbic video game review series, Zero Punctuation, for The Escapist. Before this, Croshaw gained attention in the Adventure Game Studio community for his video games.
Croshaw also writes a weekly supplementary column for The Escapist, Extra Punctuation, as well as the video series Judging by the Cover. In addition, he worked on two web series for The Escapist prior to them being discontinued: Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular and Uncivil War.
To date, Croshaw has published three novels through Dark Horse Comics. The first was Mogworld, published in August 2010. The second, Jam, was released in October 2012. The third, Will Save the Galaxy for Food, was released in February 2017.
Outside of writing, Croshaw was one of the four founders of the Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge which opened in 2010. The Mana Bar closed its doors on 24 May 2015. He also co-hosted a weekly podcast/Let's Play hybrid series named Let's Drown Out along with co-host Gabriel Morton until his move to the United States in August 2016 thus ending the series.
Croshaw became known in the Adventure Game Studio community for the Rob Blanc trilogy. He then created another AGS game, The Trials of Odysseus Kent, which was released on 30 September 2002. The Trials of Odysseus Kent was mentioned by PC Plus magazine as "AGS Showcase" in the November 2003 issue. He also helped found the collaborative Reality-on-the-Norm series by creating the first game, Lunchtime of the Damned. The series has gone on to have over 50 episodes since. In 2003, Croshaw created a total conversion mod for Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition called Age of Evil. Some of his recent works have experimented with the AGS engine to produce games in other genres than the point-and-click adventure games that AGS was designed for, such as Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment, and the 1213 series.
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