35 Facts About Ben Croshaw

Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw was born on 24 May 1983 and is a British comedic writer, author, video game journalist, humorist, podcaster, and video game developer.

Ben Croshaw is best known for his video game review series Zero Punctuation, which he produces for The Escapist.

Ben Croshaw is involved in multiple other video series and podcasts for The Escapist.

Ben Croshaw contributed a short story to the Machine of Death compilation.

Ben Croshaw has been developing video games since 1998, his two commercial releases, Hatfall and The Consuming Shadow, are published across Steam and Humble Bundle.

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Outside of writing, Ben Croshaw was one of the four founders of the Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge which opened in 2010.

The series started when Ben Croshaw uploaded two reviews for Fable: The Lost Chapters and The Darkness demo to YouTube, after which The Escapist contacted him to offer a contract.

Ben Croshaw is best known in this series for his generally scathing reviews of mainstream games, as well as often explicitly vulgar comparisons and rapid-fire speech.

Ben Croshaw joins Jack Packard weekly in Slightly Something Else, formerly Slightly Civil War, a live podcast show based on video game related topics.

Ben Croshaw join other Escapist members in a monthly video series called Ask the Creators where they answer audience submitted questions.

Ben Croshaw became known in the Adventure Game Studio community for the Rob Blanc trilogy.

Ben Croshaw then created another AGS game, The Trials of Odysseus Kent, which was released on 30 September 2002.

Ben Croshaw helped found the collaborative Reality-on-the-Norm series by creating the first game, Lunchtime of the Damned.

In 2003, Ben Croshaw created a total conversion mod for Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition called Age of Evil.

Ben Croshaw allowed people to get these each time they donated over five US dollars to his site, but as of July 2009 they were given out for free on his site, as he said he no longer relied on the donations as a means of support.

Ben Croshaw writes his own games and their graphics and animation using Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint, though he does not compose his own music.

Ben Croshaw reveals himself to be the one responsible for all Arthur's troubles in the previous games and is determined to gain the power to control travel between dimensions.

Ben Croshaw is told that he is to become the "Defender of the Universe" to provide a counterbalance to all the evil being done in the galaxy.

In 2002 Ben Croshaw wrote and released The Trials of Odysseus Kent, inspired by the Monkey Island series.

In February 2015, Ben Croshaw announced a new game titled Hatfall, based on his Zero Punctuation series, that he would design.

Ben Croshaw stated that the novel would be released on 19 August 2010 while the Mogworld profile on the Dark Horse Books website claims it was released on 8September.

Ben Croshaw has stated that Jam is tangentially related to Mogworld but is not a sequel.

On 25 August 2016 Ben Croshaw announced on his blog that a third novel would be released on 1February 2017.

Ben Croshaw had previously mentioned that he was working on a third novel, a science fiction comedy, on his Let's Drown Out video series.

On 7 March 2018 Ben Croshaw announced on his blog he'd released a fourth novel called Differently Morphous.

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On 21 September 2019, Ben Croshaw announced on his blog that a direct sequel to Will Save the Galaxy for Food was slated for release on Audible.

Ben Croshaw specifically stated that he was leery of sequels and serials, because he remembered as a kid only finding books 2 and 4 of certain series, but he mentioned that this lack of availability was a non-issue in the age of digital media.

On 10 December 2021, Ben Croshaw announced on his blog that a sequel to Differently Morpheus was available.

On 5 July 2011, Ben Croshaw admitted in his Extra Punctuation column that at one point during its long development, he was given an offer by 3D Realms developer Brian Hook to write the script for Duke Nukem Forever.

Ben Croshaw added that he never talked about the offer up to that point due to possible "unspoken" non-disclosure action and because he didn't think the whole story was worth mentioning to the public.

Ben Croshaw elaborated further when he and Gabriel Morton played Duke Nukem Forever on Let's Drown Out, calling Duke Nukem a "dinosaur" and pointing out that the character was "part of a culture that no longer existed".

Ben Croshaw explained that he was hired early in development to "punch up the dialogue for the AI support character [Bagley]".

Ben Croshaw was one of the four founders of The Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge.

In July 2015, Ben Croshaw started another video series for The Escapist called Judging by the Cover, where Ben Croshaw sarcastically reviews video games and movies simply by looking at their box art or cover.

The Gameumentary team used their time with Ben Croshaw to create a mini-documentary about Zero Punctuation.