Extra Credits
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| Presented by | Matt Krol | ||||||
| Years active | 2011 - present | ||||||
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| Subscribers | 120 thousand | ||||||
| Total views | 272 million | ||||||
| Contents are in | English | ||||||
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| Updated 4th October 2025 | |||||||
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| Presented by | Matt Krol | |||||||||
| Years active | 2014 - present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 4.4 million | |||||||||
| Total views | 1,528 million | |||||||||
| Contents are in | English | |||||||||
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Extra Credits and Extra History are educational YouTube channels run by Matthew Krol and Geoffrey Zatkin.
Extra Credits covers topics pertinent to video game development and game studies, addressing the legitimacy of video games as art, and creating intellectual discourse on issues in gaming culture.[1]
Extra History covers general historical topics.
Both channels are narrated by Matthew Krol and illustrated by Scott DeWitt, Nick DeWitt, David "D" Hueso, and Ali R. Thome and Jordan Martin. The principal writers Robert Rath and R. Kevin Doyle.
History
Pre-YouTube
The series was developed directly from a series of lecture videos by animator Daniel Floyd, informally known as Video Games And..., which ran sporadically from February 17, 2008, to April 16, 2010, with certain episodes written by James Portnow.
The series originally aired on The Escapist from July 28, 2010, to August 10, 2011, before being split off over a financial dispute. Between September 7, 2011, and December 31, 2013, the show aired on PATV, a distribution channel hosted by Penny Arcade, whose downsizing of partner services after the latter date was cited as the reason for the show's subsequent "move" to YouTube, where the show is currently aired. In addition, the episodes have been syndicated on many websites, including ScrewAttack.
YouTube
Around the end of July 2011, The Escapist privately contacted Portnow with a disputing claim for the funds.[2] As a result, Extra Credits broke ties with The Escapist.[3]
Formats
Since partnering with PATV, all official episodes have been re-categorized into seasons of 26 each for technical constraints on their site. The only videos to not follow this format are the pre-Escapist videos, which are exclusively held by Floyd but have each been eventually replaced by updated official episodes.
Extra History
Extra History is a spin-off on the main channel focused on topics in history. It started as a mini-series requested by Creative Assembly to cover the Punic Wars, in which their video game Total War: Rome II was set. Later expanding to cover a range of historical topics without any connection to video games. It has since eclipsed the popularity of Extra Credits.
On August 23, 2014, the crew announced a campaign through Patreon to fund the continuation of Extra History full-time. This campaign gained over $2,500 within a 24-hour period, and as of June 2018[update] lists over $15,000 in monthly pledges. Topics are chosen by a monthly poll seeded with suggestions made by Patreon supporters. The show has its own dedicated staff, including art by David Hueso, Lilienne Chan, Heather McNabb and Nick DeWitt, and music by Deana and Sean Kiner.
In December 2022, in order to accommodate the increased interest in Extra History and support both it and Extra Credits, a second channel was started, bearing the original Extra Credits name, to house the gaming content. The original channel was renamed to Extra History, and contains the videos for Extra History, So You Haven't Read, Extra Mythology, and Extra Sci-Fi, as well as the Extra Credits episodes from before the split.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Force, Sebastian. "Extra Credits: The Web Show That Changed How I Think About Games". Bits 'n Bytes Gaming. BnBGaming. Archived from the original on 2012-04-06.
- ↑ Bevier, Alexander (2011-08-10). "Extra Credits Leaves the Escapist". Joystick Division. Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2011-12-11. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Greene, Gavin (2011-08-10). "Extra Credits Team Leaves Escapist Over Alleged Back Payment". Elder Geek. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
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