Online Journalism Final – Ancillary Entry 2

Zero Punctuation is easily the highlight of any gamer’s week. Each Wednesday, The online magazine The Escapist publishes a new Zero Punctuation video, courtesy of vulgar, fast-talking Englishman Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw. Each week Croshaw chooses a new game to rip apart in a five minute video review. Instead of assigning a game an arbitrary numerical score, Croshaw simply talks about the game, more often than not openly mocking it.

However, the nature of Croshaw’s reviews started a discussion at Ars Technica about the nature of exclusive video on the web. Thanks to the technology now made ubiquitous by YouTube, anyone can embed video into their Web site and claim it as their own. In an act of supreme irony, I’ve embedded Croshaw’s review of Super Mario Galaxy into my post. Caution: There be strong language within.

~ by supernovajesus on April 22, 2008.