Given the Chance to Play with a Celebrity, Call “Yahtzee”
Have you ever found yourself knee-deep in some sorry excuse for a game (that you undoubtedly spent at least $39.99 on) and made a snide remark that was utterly awesome, but was made with no one around to hear? Imagine playing with someone who cannot only agree with that remark, but make it way more hilarious than you could ever articulate. That’s what it would be like to play with the Escapist’s video review artist, Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw.
Pop idols have Simon Cowell. Chefs have Gordon Ramsay. Parents have the old crones from Nanny 911. The hottest trend in entertainment is watching British know-it-alls verbally assault poor saps whose only crime is to dare to live out their dreams, if not just get by. For the video game industry, Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation fills that void. The series has grown to such popularity that many online publications simply embed the videos into their news posts in order to boost traffic by riding its coat tails, and making up for their own lack of original content. This article may not be much different.