Have a slice of Horace cake on us
On this day, in the year of our Horace 2007, Rock Paper Shotgun wasborn. Yes, previousbirthday postswill tell you the site’s official birthday is August 20th - the day RPS was fully unveiled to the world - but thosesame postswill also tell you the four RPS founders were mucking about with the site in secret for well over a month before that. It’s also the date that’s been etched into our Wikipedia page, which we all know is the true source of all knowledge. So here I am, demanding showers of cake and confetti, because I’m now the one to blame for all this. Happy Birthdayto us.
D’aww, look at us being all edgy with that splatter effect across the Shotgun and our red, white and black gamer colours! Weren’t we just adorable?
Graham isn’t the only big name we’ve said goodbye to since we turned ten. We’ve also bid a full-time farewell to Pip Warr, Adam Smith, Alec Meer, John Walker, Brendan Caldwell, Matt Cox, Nate Crowley, Matthew Castle, Noa Smith, Astrid Johnson, Alice Liguori, Dave Irwin, Sin Vega, James Law, Jake Green, Colm Ahern, Imogen Beckhelling, and just last week, one of our first official comments moderators, Felisha Dela Cruz. And that’s not forgetting all our amazing freelancers who have also gone on to bigger and better things as well. We love each and every one of you, and you’ve all played a critical part in making RPS what it is today.
And what RPS is today is an incredible team ofeleven of the UK’s best games writers. I may be wrong on this, but Ithinkthis is the first time we’ve ever truly been at full strength. With Alice Bee, Alice O’Connor, Rachel Watts, James Archer, Ollie Toms, Ed Thorn, CJ Wheeler, Liam Richardson, Rebecca Jones, Hayden Hefford and our ever faithful comments mod Paolo Balmes at our side, we finally have a fully-rounded roster of news, reviews, features, hardware, guides and video buds now, and I cannot tell you how lucky I feel to be the person leading them all each and every day. I’m so, so excited about what the future holds for RPS, and I hope you are, too.
As well as continuing to cover all the latest and greatest games from AAA blockbusters to the next big (and unknown) indie hits, we’ve got big plans for Year 2 of our recently relaunchedsupporter programcoming up, the second iteration ofThe RPS 100happening very soon, our ongoingTime CapsulesandGOTY Revisitedseries to look forward to (and yes, this month’s Time Capsule will indeed be 2007, in honour of our birthday), new columns, new video shows and so much more waiting in the wings - and I can’t wait to tell you more about them all in the coming months.
So here’s to you, loyal RPS reader. As we raise our Horace champagne glasses and tuck into a big slice of endless Horace cake, I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who’s read us over the last 15 years. We wouldn’t be here without you, so thank you again for helping us keep the lights on. Here’s to the next decade and a half!
