Its Time to Bang the Game Ownership Drum Again - Extra Punctuation Yahtzee Croshaw

It’s Time to Bang the Game Ownership Drum Again – Extra Punctuation

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This week on Extra Punctuation, Yahtzee talks about the significance of actually owning your video games. Thank you to Robot Cache for sponsoring this video. Download Wasteland 3 for free courtesy of Robot Cache using this link: https://bit.ly/extrapunctuation

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With recent news stories on upcoming games like Starfield and Alan Wake 2 not having physical releases – although I think Starfield backpedaled on that one, that’s the 24-hour news cycle for you – perhaps it’s a good time to bang the old game ownership drum again. Churlish as it may seem to keep complaining considering that the vast majority of game purchases are digital only these days. Publishers do keep creeping up the price of new games and riddling them with illicit moneymaking schemes ostensibly to match the rising cost of game development so I suppose no longer having to print and ship fifty million plastic cases around the world has got to knock a chunk off the publishing budget.


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Yahtzee Croshaw
Yahtzee is the Escapist’s longest standing talent, having been writing and producing its award winning flagship series, Zero Punctuation, since 2007. Before that he had a smattering of writing credits on various sites and print magazines, and has almost two decades of experience in game journalism as well as a lifelong interest in video games as an artistic medium, especially narrative-focused. He also has a foot in solo game development - he was a big figure in the indie adventure game scene in the early 2000s - and writes novels. He has six novels published at time of writing with a seventh on the way, all in the genres of comedic sci-fi and urban fantasy. He was born in the UK, emigrated to Australia in 2003, and emigrated again to California in 2016, where he lives with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include walking the dog and emigrating to places.