Yahtzee Croshaw#Chzo Mythos

{{Short description|British video game journalist and author (born 1983)}}

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| name = Yahtzee Croshaw

| image = Yahtzee Croshaw, Mana Bar co-owner, at its opening, Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 100320.jpg

| alt = Yahtzee Croshaw in 2010

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| birth_name = Benjamin Richard Croshaw{{cite web |url=http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/archive/Y2Oct6-11.htm |title=I Am Jack's Thoughtful Introspection |last=Croshaw |first=Yahtzee |date=2003-10-07 |website=fullyramblomatic |access-date=2024-02-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522114044/http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/archive/Y2Oct6-11.htm |archive-date=2022-05-22 |quote=I am Benjamin Richard Croshaw.}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1983|5|24}}{{cite web |url=http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/archive/20060203-0419.htm |title=Fucking Ada |last=Croshaw |first=Yahtzee |date=2006-04-08 |website=fullyramblomatic |access-date=2024-02-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118180128/http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/archive/20060203-0419.htm |archive-date=2024-01-18 |quote=I was born on May 24th 1983{{nbsp}}...}}

| birth_place = Rugby, Warwickshire, England{{cite AV media |people=Croshaw, Yahtzee |date=2017-07-22 |title=Yahtzee annoys his girlfriend with Dark Souls (episode 7) |type=Livestream |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ8HEfAKmEE&t=2357s |access-date=2024-03-02 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107130418/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ8HEfAKmEE |archive-date=2023-11-07 |time=39:17 |website=YouTube |publisher=The Escapist |quote=I'm from the town of Rugby, in the county of Warwickshire;{{nbsp}}...}}

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| occupation = Journalist, video game critic, author, video game developer, humourist

| spouse = {{marriage|Kess|2018}}{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

| children = 2{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

| website = {{URL|fullyramblomatic.com}}

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Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983) is a British journalist, video game critic and developer, author, and humourist. He is best known for his video game review series Zero Punctuation, which he produced for The Escapist from 2007 to 2023, and its spiritual successor Fully Ramblomatic, which he releases through Second Wind.

Croshaw has developed and released over two dozen indie games, including both freeware and commercial titles. He has also published six novels through Dark Horse Books. Outside of creative works, Croshaw was one of four founders of the Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge which opened in 2010, and had closed by 2015.

Game journalism

=''Zero Punctuation''=

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Zero Punctuation is a video-review series Croshaw released every Wednesday on The Escapist between 2007 and 2023. The series began with his review of the demo of The Darkness, which quickly grew in popularity. After one more review covering Fable: The Lost Chapters, Croshaw was hired to continue the series on The Escapist. Reviews were typically posted initially on The Escapist{{'}}s site, then uploaded to The Escapist{{'}}s YouTube channel a week later. The addition of the series to The Escapist led to a large growth in site traffic, and the series became the most popular feature on The Escapist, with each episode consistently receiving hundreds of thousands of views, and the most popular episodes surpassing a million views.

Throughout the series's lifetime, Croshaw became known for his rapid-fire delivery (from which the series's title is derived), along with his harsh critique of both the games he reviewed and the broader video game industry, as well as the crude humour and illustrations contained in his reviews. Additionally, Croshaw coined the term "PC Master Race" in one review, which then became common parlance among PC gamers. Reviews are roughly five minutes in length, and contained no numerical rating or score, as Croshaw called them "fucking nonsense when you're criticizing from a subjective artistic standpoint."

=''Fully Ramblomatic''=

{{Main|Second Wind (entertainment group){{!}}Second Wind (entertainment group)}}

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| text = Today, I formally resigned from The Escapist and Gamurs. I don't have the rights to Zero Punctuation, but whatever happens you'll be hearing my voice again soon, in a new place. Join this discord for updates in the coming days:

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On 6 November 2023, Croshaw announced his resignation from The Escapist alongside other colleagues following the abrupt firing of editor-in-chief Nick Calandra that same day, effectively ending Zero Punctuation as a series. Two days later, Calandra and Croshaw announced the creation of Second Wind, a new outlet on which Croshaw would continue weekly video-reviews under the title Fully Ramblomatic.

Game development

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File:GameLayers with Mr. Zero Punctuation.jpg 2008, alongside (left to right) Justin Hall, Merci Hammon, and Duncan Gough]]

Croshaw's first publicly released game was the Arthur Yahtzee trilogy created in Visual Basic 3 and released in 1998.{{cite web|url=https://www.gamesradar.com/ben-yahtzee-croshaw-announces-metroidvania-game-poacher/|title=Ben Yahtzee Croshaw announces Metroidvania game Poacher|website=GamesRadar+|first=Matt|last=Bradford|date=2012-01-09|access-date=2024-03-03}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gamegrin.com/reviews/the-consuming-shadow-review/|date=2015-08-23|first=Ben|last=McCurry|title=The Consuming Shadow Review|website=GameGrin|access-date=2024-03-03}} He also wrote a selection of interactive fiction games through Z-Code, including Offensive Probing, Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake, The Sorceror's Appraisal, and the Countdown trilogy tied to his Chzo Mythos.{{cite web|url=https://www.joltcountry.com/trottingkrips/ccake.html|title=Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake / Ben Crowshaw (2000)|website=Jolt Country|first=Jonathan|last=Blask|access-date=2024-03-04}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wurb.com/if/game/360|title=Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake|website=Baf's Guide to the IF Archive|first=Duncan|last=Stevens|date=2000-07-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415111151/http://www.wurb.com/if/game/360 |access-date=2024-03-04|archive-date=15 April 2012 }}

Croshaw then developed many freeware games in Adventure Game Studio from 2000 to 2007, including the Rob Blanc trilogy, Lunchtime of the Damned (the inaugural episode of Reality-On-The-Norm),{{cite web|url=https://www.tigsource.com/2009/06/01/classic-reality-on-the-norm/|title=Classic: Reality-on-the-Norm|author-link=Derek Yu|first=Derek|last=Yu|date=2009-06-01|access-date=2024-03-03|website=TIGSource}}{{cite magazine |date=February 2009 |title=Reality-On-The-Norm: The town adventure gamers built |url=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxnLGVvZTYeUnQp8-AvNtUEn-iHCU3QM7cqYRf7p3kX8vEfsfTcat8N1oq3tlOn-g16oiQFKvNXFNG9CyUVZwSEQdOQvNs_09eZesYuaIYDIS1xkOcFcqyvqupbq7KpU6sWolID11INU/s1600-h/PCGAMERFEB2009P1.jpg |magazine=PC Gamer |publisher=Future plc |access-date=2024-04-25}} The Trials of Odysseus Kent,{{Verify source|date=February 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/17627|title=Review for 5 Days a Stranger|website=Adventure Gamers|first=Dave|last=Gilbert|date=2003-10-13|access-date=2024-03-03}} the four part Chzo Mythos,{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/127887-reconsidering-5-days-a-stranger-after-bioshock-2496171081.html|title=

Possession As a Metaphor for the Player-Character Relationship|first=G. Christopher|last=Williams|date=2010-07-07|website=PopMatters|access-date=2024-03-03}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/play-these-the-best-of-adventure-game-studio|title=Play These: The Best of Adventure Game Studio|website=Rock Paper Shotgun|first=Lewis|last=Denby|date=2022-04-04}}{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507130025/http://www.ripten.com/2012/11/03/under-the-radar-chzos-mythos/|url=http://www.ripten.com/2012/11/03/under-the-radar-chzos-mythos/|title=Under The Radar: Chzos Mythos|date=2012-11-03|access-date=2024-03-04|archive-date=2013-05-07|first=Erandi|last=Huip|url-status=usurped|website=RipTen}}{{cite magazine |date=June 2007 |title=6 Days a Sacrifice |url=https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/wiki/File:Ags_in_the_media_Sacrifice_review_PC_Format_UK_Jul_2007.jpg |magazine=PC Format |publisher=Future plc |access-date=2024-04-24}} Adventures In The Galaxy Of Fantabulous Wonderment,{{cite web|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-rpg-scrollbars-adventures-in-spaaaaaaace|title=The RPG Scrollbars: Adventures In Spaaaaaaace!|first=Richard|last=Cobbett|date=2016-08-15|access-date=2024-03-03|website=Rock Paper Shotgun}} the 1213 series,{{cite web|url=https://adventuregamers.com/news/view/20230|title=AGS Award winners|website=Adventure Gamers|first=Andrew|last=MacCormack|date=2007-02-12|access-date=2024-03-04}} and Trilby: The Art of Theft.{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2007-11-13-zero-punctuation-guy-makes-games-too.html|title=Zero Punctuation guy makes games too|website=Engadget|date=2007-11-13|access-date=2024-03-03|first=Scott|last=Jon Siegel}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2007/11/you-love-yahtze/|title=You Love Yahtzee's Reviews, Now Try His Game|magazine=Wired|first=Susan|last=Arendt|date=2007-11-12|access-date=2024-03-03}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/trilby-the-art-of-theft|website=Rock Paper Shotgun|title=Trilby: The Art of Theft|first=Kieron|last=Gillen|date=2007-11-13|access-date=2024-03-03}}{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/trilby-the-art-of-theft-2496192588.html|title=Trilby: The Art of Theft|first=L.B.|last=Jeffries|date=2007-12-20|website=PopMatters|access-date=2024-03-03}}{{cite magazine | url=http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Elimpingfish/AGScene/Thrifty.jpg |date=November 2007 |title=The Thrifty Fifty - Trilby: The Art of Theft |magazine=PC Zone |publisher=Future plc }}

The latter two games were noted for pushing the engine beyond what it was designed for.{{cite journal |first=Mikhail |last=Fiadotau |date=August 2016 |title=Game Engine Conventions and Games that Challenge them: Subverting Conventions as Metacommentary |journal=Replay the Polish Journal of Game Studies |volume=3 |pages=50 |doi=10.18778/2391-8551.03.03|hdl=11089/22427 |hdl-access=free }} He had previously charged to access the special editions for several of these games, but released everything for free in 2009.{{cite web|url=https://www.pcinvasion.com/yahtzee-makes-adventure-special-editions-free/|title=Yahtzee Makes Adventure Special Editions Free|first=Paul|last=Younger|date=2009-07-28|access-date=2024-03-03|website=PC Invasion}} Builds of the Chzo Mythos and other games were released in 2010 for Linux on icculus.org,{{cite web|url=https://linuxgamingnews.org/2010/08/11/the-chzo-mythos-for-gnulinux-released/|website=Linux Gaming News|title=The Chzo Mythos For GNU/Linux Released!|date=2010-08-11|first=Maxim|last=Bardin|access-date=2024-03-06}} later updated in 2015 to the now open source AGS runtime.{{cite web|url=https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2015/01/the-chzo-mythos-and-other-ben-yahtzee-croshaw-games-updated-for-linux/|website=GamingOnLinux|title=The Chzo Mythos And Other Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Games Updated For Linux|first=Hamish|last=Wilson|date=2015-01-20}}

In April 2012, Croshaw released the Cave Story inspired Poacher, developed in GameMaker Studio, which he would use to make all his subsequent games.{{cite AV media |people=Croshaw, Yahtzee |date=2019-05-21 |title=Yahtzee's Dev Diary 2: Belts, Backrests and Bubbles |type=Video |url=https://www.escapistmagazine.com/yahtzees-dev-diary-2-belts-backrests-and-bubbles/ |access-date=2024-02-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922205429/https://www.escapistmagazine.com/yahtzees-dev-diary-2-belts-backrests-and-bubbles/ |archive-date=2021-09-22 |time=4:49 |website=The Escapist |publisher=Enthusiast Gaming |quote=I'm using GameMaker Studio 2 by YoYo Games for this (and probably all my projects), the same thing I used for Hatfall and Consuming Shadow{{nbsp}}...}}

In a 2014 Vice interview, Croshaw disclosed that he had been asked to pitch a script for the then-in-development Duke Nukem Forever by a producer. He did so, however the script was rejected due to not fitting the producer's vision of Duke Nukem as a character. Croshaw had earlier in 2003 made a horror-themed total conversion mod for the original Duke Nukem 3D called Age of Evil.{{cite web|url=https://msdn.duke4.net/revaoe.php|title=MSDN review: Age of Evil TC|website=Duke4|first=Mikko|last=Sandt|access-date=2024-03-05}}{{cite web|url=https://taw.duke4.net/2006/06/duke3d/age-of-evil/|title=the abandoned workshops - Age Of Evil|first=Ryan|last=Rouse|website=Duke4|access-date=2024-03-05|date=2006-06-22}}

In 2015, Croshaw released the mobile game Hatfall in collaboration with Addicting Games and Defy Media. PC Magazine{{'}}s Will Greenwald scored the game 3.5/5, describing the game as "a funny little take on casual mobile games that doesn't offer any depth or complexity," while adding that the game "does a good job of taking the piss out of games (and you as the player) with the sharp-tongued Britishness of Yahtzee's writing and the minimalism of his animations."

In November 2013, Croshaw released the beta version of the Lovecraftian horror roguelike The Consuming Shadow, On 30 July 2015, the full game was released. Destructoid{{'}}s Stephen Turner scored the game 4/10, describing the game as "more Frankenstein's Monster than Eldritch Abomination, shambling along [...] with once fresh parts, dug up from here and there." On 20 November, a new version of the game was released on Steam, which included new features.

In May 2019, Croshaw began a new video series called Dev Diary, wherein he would develop 12 freeware games over the course of a year.

His latest game, Starstruck Vagabond, was announced for a 2024 release,{{cite web|url=https://prospect.org/labor/2023-11-20-yahtzee-croshaw-zero-punctuation-second-wind/|title=Nefarious Corporate Overlord Accidentally Kick-Starts Media Company|first=Ryan|last=Cooper|date=2023-11-20|access-date=2024-04-24|website=The American Prospect|quote=Croshaw is also releasing a game of his own design called Starstruck Vagabond next year; Calandra said that depending on the money situation they hope to set up their own indie game label.}} and ultimately came out on Steam on May 24, 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/starstruck-vagabond/space-sandbox-life-sim|title=Stardew Valley meets Elite Dangerous in interstellar life sim, out now|first=Ken|last=Allsop|date=2024-05-25|access-date=2024-05-29|website=PCGamesN}} It received a positive review from Screen Rant,{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/starstruck-vagabond-review/|title=Starstruck Vagabond Is A Perfect Crossover Between Stardew Valley & Elite: Dangerous: A Review|first=Christopher|last=Teuton|website=Screen Rant |date=2024-05-22|access-date=2024-05-29}} and a mixed review from Hardcore Gamer.{{cite web|url=https://hardcoregamer.com/review-starstruck-vagabond/|title=Review: Starstruck Vagabond|website=Hardcore Gamer|first=Callum|last=Marshall|date=2024-05-24|access-date=2024-05-29}}

Yahtzee does all the artwork for his games himself in MS Paint, lending his games what Wonder How Two described as "a delightfully old-school Sierra look, like in King's Quest 3."{{cite web|url=https://indie-games-ichiban.wonderhowto.com/news/not-your-ordinary-gamer-yahtzee-croshaw-does-all-0127789/|title=Yahtzee Croshaw Does It All|first=Nicholas H|last=Battjes|date=2011-06-01|access-date=2024-03-05|website=Wonder How To}} The music in a number of his games was composed by Mark Lovegrove.{{cite web|website=Cliqist|url=http://cliqist.com/2018/01/23/free-indie-games-trilby-art-theft-high-class-theft/|title=Free Indie Games – Trilby: The Art of Theft is High Class Theft|first=Josh|last=Griffiths|date=2018-01-23|access-date=2024-03-03}}{{cite web|url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18004|title=Review for Trilby's Notes|website=Adventure Gamers|first=Gunnar|last=Harboe|date=2006-12-12|access-date=2024-03-03}}

Writing

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In the 2000s Croshaw created a number of webcomics, namely Chris and Trilby, Cowboy Comics!, The Adventures of Angular Mike, and Yahtzee Takes On The World!, which ran from December 20, 2000, to September 22, 2002. He also uploaded two unpublished novels to his website, Fog Juice and Articulate Jim: A Search for Something.{{cite web|url=https://www.naijanews.com/buzz/people/who-is-yahtzee-croshaw-his-girlfriend-wife-and-other-facts/|title=Who Is Yahtzee Croshaw?|website=Naja News|date=9 April 2022 |access-date=2024-03-06}}

Croshaw was previously a staff writer for the Adventure Gamers website.{{cite web|url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18648|title=AdventureX 2011|first=Rob|last=Murrant|website=Adventure Gamers|date=2012-01-16|access-date=2024-03-06}}

In 2010, Croshaw's first published novel Mogworld, was released by Dark Horse Books. Tor.com{{'}}s Chris Greenland stated that the book "isn't going to bowl anyone over," while adding that "Croshaw undoubtedly has a strong, unique voice and I would hate to see that limited to only critiques."

Later that same year, the short story collection Machine of Death was published, featuring a story by Croshaw titled "Exhaustion From Having Sex With a Minor". The Times Herald-Record{{'}}s Jim Higgins described the story as "a talky tale of political intrigue that could be straight out of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, with a snappy twist at the end that O. Henry might appreciate."

In 2012, an ebook version of Mogworld was released, which included an excerpt of Croshaw's second novel, Jam. The novel was published later that year on October 10.{{cite web |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/18-937/JAM-novel |title=JAM novel |author= |date= |website=darkhorse.com |access-date=2024-02-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213075550/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/18-937/JAM-novel |archive-date=2024-02-13 |quote=Publication Date: October 10, 2012}} The Quad{{'}}s Kelly Baker described the book as "very funny, but [...] also surprisingly disturbing to boot."

In 2017, Croshaw's third novel, the sci-fi comedy Will Save the Galaxy for Food was published.{{cite web|url=https://sciencefiction.com/2017/01/27/book-review-will-save-the-galaxy-for-food-by-yahtzee-croshaw/|title=Book Review: 'Will Save The Galaxy For Food' by Yahtzee Croshaw|date=2017-01-27|access-date=2024-04-24|first=Stuart|last=Conover|website=Science Fiction.com}} In 2019, its sequel Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash was published as an audiobook on Audible; a print version followed in 2020. In April 2024, the final book in the series Will Leave the Galaxy for Good was published on Audible, with print and ebook versions to follow.{{cite web |url=http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/2024/04/will-leave-this-trilogy-where-it-is.html |title=Will Leave This Trilogy Where It Is |last=Croshaw |first=Yahtzee |date=2024-04-05 |website=fullyramblomatic |access-date=2024-04-14 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414013937/http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/2024/04/will-leave-this-trilogy-where-it-is.html |archive-date=2024-04-14}}

In 2018, Croshaw's fourth novel Differently Morphous was published as an audiobook,{{cite web|url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/yahtzee-croshaw-differently-morphous/|title=Harry Potter Finally Gets on Twitter in Yahtzee Croshaw's Differently Morphous, From Dark Horse in 2019|date=2018-09-12|website=Bleeding Cool|first=Jude|last=Terror|access-date=2024-04-24}} with a print version following on 10 April 2019. A sequel followed in 2021, titled Existentially Challenged.{{cite web |url=http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/2021/12/existentially-challenged-is-now-out.html |title=Existentially Challenged is now out! |last=Croshaw |first=Yahtzee |date=2021-12-10 |website=fullyramblomatic |access-date=2024-02-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118121057/http://fullyramblomatic-yahtzee.blogspot.com/2021/12/existentially-challenged-is-now-out.html |archive-date=2023-11-18}}

=Bibliography=

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  • {{cite book |date=2010 |title=Mogworld |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/16-577/Mogworld |publisher=Dark Horse Books |isbn=978-1-59582-529-2 |oclc=589017680}}
  • North, Ryan; Bennardo, Matthew; Malki, David, eds. (2010) [https://archive.org/details/MachineofDeath/page/n239/mode/2up "Exhaustion From Having Sex With a Minor"]. Illustrated by Cameron Stewart. Machine of Death. Bearstache Books. pp. 227–38. {{ISBN|978-0-9821671-2-0}}. {{OCLC|678476546}}
  • {{cite book |date=2012 |title=Jam |url=https://archive.org/details/jam0000cros |url-access=registration |publisher=Dark Horse Books |isbn=978-1-59582-957-3 |oclc=794973812}}
  • {{cite book |date=2017 |title=Will Save the Galaxy for Food |url=https://archive.org/details/willsavegalaxyfo0000cros |url-access=registration |publisher=Dark Horse Books |isbn=978-1-5067-0165-3 |oclc=950635680}}
  • {{cite book |date=2018 |title=Differently Morphous |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3003-029/Differently-Morphous-TPB |publisher=Dark Horse Books |isbn=978-1-5067-1164-5 |oclc=1053611265}}
  • {{cite book |date=2020 |title=Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3005-685/Will-Destroy-the-Galaxy-for-Cash-TPB |publisher=Dark Horse Books |isbn=978-1-5067-1511-7 |oclc=1154255211}}
  • {{cite book |date=2021 |title=Existentially Challenged |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3009-201/Existentially-Challenged-TPB |publisher=Dark Horse Books |isbn=978-1-5067-3359-3 |oclc=1322812492}}
  • {{cite book |date=2024 |title=Will Leave the Galaxy for Good |url=https://www.audible.com/pd/Will-Leave-the-Galaxy-for-Good-Audiobook/B0CY5YWK21 |publisher=Audible |isbn= |oclc=}}

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Other works

=''Game Damage''=

Game Damage was a planned video game-centred TV show co-starring Croshaw. A pilot was released on YouTube in December 2008. In October 2009, a trailer for the first season was released. In November 2009, CNET reported that the show was "looking for international funding". The show was ultimately never picked up. In a 2014 interview with Vice, Croshaw stated that he believed the show never saw success because "TV networks tend to be antsy about gaming content because video gaming is one of TV's main competitors".

=Mana Bar=

{{Main|Mana Bar}}

Croshaw was one of four founders of the Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge. The bar initially opened in Brisbane in 2010, with a second venue opening in Melbourne in 2011. By May 2015, both venues had closed.

References

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  • {{cite web |url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pressspotting-ramblin-with-ben-yahtzee-croshaw/1100-6235040/ |title=PressSpotting: Ramblin' with Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw |last=Orland |first=Kyle |date=2008-03-21 |website=GameSpot |access-date=2024-05-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516000451/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pressspotting-ramblin-with-ben-yahtzee-croshaw/1100-6235040/ |archive-date=2023-05-16}}
  • {{cite book |editor-last1=Colby |editor-first1=Richard |editor-last2=Johnson |editor-first2=Matthew S. S. |editor-last3=Shultz Colby |editor-first3=Rebekah |date=2013 |title=Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games: Reshaping Theory and Practice of Writing |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781137307668 |url-access=registration |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=66, 73–4 |isbn=978-1-137-30766-8 |oclc=818732780}}

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