Yahtzee: Yeah, fanboys, I'm putting it in at 4! What are you going to do about it? You going to cry? 'Ooh, mummy, call the police! He only moderately lavished it with praise! Bring me my coat that looks good from the back, 'cause I'm going to do some serious shunning!' Since 2019, he has teamed up with Jack Packard of RedLetterMedia fame for Let's Play videos and debates. Since the beginning of 2017, Yahtzee has started streaming games after each ZP episode (usually the game he reviewed that day), and the Escapist YouTube channel also has several streams of him and his girlfriend playing games. Previews of the next video were shown on X-Play for a brief period in 2008. In 2015, The Escapist released an official casual game based on the series, Hatfall, which combines quick-fire gameplay with Yahtzee's usual brand of humor. However, in April 2013, Yahtzee and Jim started up again with the segment Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular where they recite slam poetry about the game topic at hand. The column sadly petered out by early September, but its entire run can still be found here. In February 2011, he also started a column called 'Extra Consideration' with Bob ' Moviebob' Chipman and James Portnow of Extra Credits (though Portnow was replaced by Jim Sterling of The Jimquisition and Destructoid fame after he left the Escapist). The column was dormant for while, with the written version having been discontinued since 2017, but was it eventually resurrected in October 2021 in the form of a video series. The combination of caustic humour (admittedly with occasional dashes of compassion), rapid-fire delivery, and visual gags made the show an instant success. Less than a month later, he was hired by The Escapist, an online magazine with a big boat made of money (see the page quote), to release one of these video reviews a week.

He then turned to Fable: The Lost Chapters. He was faced with a demo of The Darkness he wished to review for his website and wanted to try something new, so he took Photoshop, Windows Movie Maker, a headset mic, and his sense of humour, and turned them into a YouTube video. Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, critic and amateur game developer, decided one day to conduct an experiment.

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