The Zero
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| Originally published | August 2006 |
| Authors | Jess Walter |
| Genres | Novel |
| Adventure Fiction | |
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| ID | 2370354 |
About The Zero
From its opening pages—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. . . .
Zero Punctuation star Yahtzee Croshaw quits after 16 years
... He said he wouldn t be taking The Zero Punctuation name with him, but fans would hear his voice again " soon, in a new place"...
Warning petrol ban delay could stop people buying electric cars
... Jaguar Land Rover said its net zero plans were " on track" and said it would " welcome certainty around legislation for the end of sale of petrol and diesel powered cars" Separately, Mr Hawes said he was " assured" that The Zero emission vehicles mandate, a requirement that 22% of cars sold by each manufacturer are zero emission from 2024, would still be introduced...
Ukraine war: The front line where Russian eyes are always watching
... The Zero line - the final trench - lies ahead...
China Covid: Hospitals under strain in wave of infections
... Why didn t the government prepare for this earlier, with an expansion of hospital ICU capacity? Why has it taken so long to make this switch when countries around the world had already done it? Why did Xi Jinping s administration allow The Zero Covid approach to cause so much damage to the economy more broadly and people s livelihoods more specifically? A renewed vaccination push has started but it too should have come before China reached this stage...
China's Communist Party Congress: A really simple guide
... Some observers say the party may use the Congress to declare victory over the pandemic and end The Zero Covid policy...
Zero Covid holds danger for China's Xi
... Last week, when state media quoted Beijing s party secretary having said The Zero Covid approach would remain in place for at least another five years, it prompted an instant outcry on social media...
Priya Aggarwal: The Indian bride on horseback who smashed taboos
... Families wanting sons were using pre-natal diagnosis to abort female foetuses and as the 2001 Census showed, in The Zero to six age group, Ambala had only 781 girls for every 1,000 boys...
Hong Kong's tough Covid laws threatened by virus surge
... Our correspondent adds that the city s government was quick to assert that " general discussion" over the effectiveness of The Zero covid policy was not illegal...
Zero Punctuation star Yahtzee Croshaw quits after 16 years
The Star of long-running videogame review series Zero Punctuation has quit after 16 years.
Ben Croshaw, known as Yahtzee, was famous for his very fast, very rude, quickfire opinions on the latest games.
His five-minute videos featuring crude cartoon characters were a weekly feature on gaming site The Escapist .
But Yahtzee with several colleagues after their editor-in-chief Nick Calandra was fired.
He Said he wouldn't be taking the Zero Punctuation name with him, but fans would hear his voice again " soon, in a new place".
Zero Punctuation , launched in 2007, is The Escapist 's most popular feature, with videos from the series comfortably outranking others on its YouTube channel.
It became popular thanks to Yahtzee's Politically Incorrect scripting and his swipes at games that were praised by other gaming sites.
Some People accused The British journalist of airing controversial opinions to be edgy, but many were fans of his no-holds-barred approach.
He received backlash for his views on certain titles, most notably The Last of Us: Part 2 and Super Smash Bros Brawl.
Yahtzee's departure followed Calandra's, who for " not achieving goals that were never properly set out for us".
The pair were followed out of The Door by A Number of colleagues, most of them from The Site 's video team.
After Yahtzee's announcement, many fans praised his contribution to The Escapist , with one saying: " You were the only part of The Site i cared about. "
Another added: " You've been carrying that whole brand for the better part of a decade. "
Calandra later thanked followers for shown since he announced his firing, and said The Team would announce a new project soon.
BBC Newsbeat's contacted Gamurs for comment.
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Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
