Zero Punctuation 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 Escapists site, then uploaded to
The Escapists 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 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==