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RPS is 15 years old today!Have a slice of Horace cake on us
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.
Thanks Wayback Machine!
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?
It’s not just the look of the site that’s changed in the last five years either. Indeed, aside from Alice0 and myself, the rest of the entire current RPS team is all brand-spanking new, as even our esteemed deputy editor Alice Bee only joined the site in June 2018. Graham (RPS in peace) is also still knocking around in our news cupboard, of course, helping us to cover some of our evening shifts, but his proper job now lies in our great big corporate mothership in the sky.
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!
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