452
Yahtzee Croshaw: 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. (twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
88 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 83 points 1 year ago

Holy shit so no more Zero Punctuation? He was like half of that channel. Wow this came from nowhere.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 year ago

Theyre practically nothing without him.

[-] FMT99@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

No one would have heard of them if it weren't for ZP

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

By the sounds of it their entire video team left. So not half of the channel gone, but all of it...

[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 2 points 1 year ago

Woah. I wonder what happened 😬

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Going to go out on a limb and say unrestrained corporate greed

[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 2 points 1 year ago

Considering everything else that has gone to shit recently for the same reason, you're probably right.

[-] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

They apparently fired the EIC for dumb reasons, and everybody else left in solidarity.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

In my mind Escapist as a brand itself is basically only ZP, do they even do anything else?

[-] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They used to, before Extra Credits, Critical Role, and MovieBob went independent.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

And The Jimquisition if you reach back far enough.

[-] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Sterling and Yahtzee did a few literal road trips together even.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Zero punctuation and 3-minute reviews are the only reason to be there. Guess i'm out now.

[-] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I struggle to think what that channel even did besides ZP and EP. Is Cold Take them as well?

this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
452 points (98.7% liked)

Games

16657 readers
562 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works