He is one of videogame media’s most recognized voices, a quick-witted, fast talking Englishman with a bitter world view and a need to be pleased. He was named one of Destructoid’s icons of 2007, and his weekly posts ignite message boards up and down the Internet. The man behind The Escapist’s weekly Zero Punctuation review, this is one game critic who doesn’t care how vulgar he has to be to get down to the grim truth at hand. If your game is bad, this man is going to let you to know about it.
His name, of course, is Ben Croshaw, better known as Yahtzee, a British born resident of Australia whose career as a games writer took a turn for the explosive when his video reviews, in which he spends several relentless minutes ripping a videogame limb from bloody limb, became an Internet phenomenon in just a matter of weeks. […]
Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
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