We’re twelve months old. Of course you’ll find some “July 2007″ in the archives, but that was us just messing about. Our official, royal birthday is the 20th of August. That means the Rock, Paper, Shotgun project is a year old today.
The reason it has lived this long is because we have readers. We seem to have readers because we have words. We’ve compiled the exhaustive list of the best words from Year One beyond the jump. But before you go there, we want to ask for our birthday present. We want you to read that list and find a link that you can send to a gaming chum who does not read RPS. Share the links, spread the words of RPS, and all shall be merry. Thanks, you. Here’s to another year.
There’s bound to be loads we’ve missed (You try reading through a year of daily blogging!) But this should get you started.
INTERVIEWS: We like talking to developers.
Eve Online’s Reynir Harðarson.
Popcap talk Peggle.
Vic Davis, Armageddon Empires designer.
Vince D Weller. He’s indie, and angry!
Warren Spector.
Al Lowe. Yes, the original Leisure Suit Larry guy.
Valve’s Chet Faliszek.
Positech’s Cliff Harris.
CD Projekt on The Witcher.
CCPs Torfi Olafsson on the future of Eve Online.
Massive on World In Conflict and Ground Control.
Hermann Netdevil on Jumpgate and Auto Assault.
Jeffrey Steefel, exec prod on LOTRO.
Stardock’s Brad Wardell.
Rob Humble on The Sims 3.
Memories of Lucasarts and a vision of the future of adventure games with Mike Stemmle.
Eskil Steenberg. The cleverest game designer in Stockholm.
Mr Sims: Rob Humble Interview.
Stalin vs Martians Interview.
Depths Of Peril: Steven Peeler interview.
Paul Barnett on Games Journalism.
Paul Barnett on GDC.
Liquid Entertainment’s Charley Price on Rise Of The Argonauts.
Celso Riva interview.
Thomas Simon on HAWX.
Jack Emmert talks Champions Online
Penumbra-dude Tom Jubert talks Penumbra and stuff
Ragnar Tørnquist On… Storytelling. Sexy Ragnar.
Some bloke from Gearbox on Borderlands.
Raph “Theory Of Fun” Koster talks MMOs and Metaplace.
Ron “Monkey Island 2″ Gilbert talks Deathspank.
Soren “Civ4″ Johnson talks about PC gaming.
Eric Wolpaw on writing for Valve, and writing Portal
.David Speyrer on making Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Kim Swift and Jeep Barrett on making Portal.
Ken Levine on the Making of Bioshock.
The Splash Damage story: Paul Wedgwood on how they got to make Quake Wars: Enemy Territory.
Robin Walker and Charlie Brown on Team Fortress 2. Part 1. Part 2.
Professor Henry Jenkins on games and academia.
Nathan ‘Oveur’ Richardsson on Eve Online.
Adam ‘Cargo Cult’ Foster on Half-Life 2 super-mod MINERVA: Metastasis.
Chris Kramer on Men Of War.
MAKING OF: Interviews with Developers on the origins of classic games
Collect them all by clicking the Making Of tag.
Hostile Waters
Freedom Force
Harvey Smith
Rise of Nations
Laser Squad Nemesis
Arx Fatalis
City Of Heroes
The Longest Journey
Settlers II
Operation: Flashpoint
Cannon Fodder 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows
A Tale In The Desert
Dungeon Siege
Sacrifice
Shogun Total War
Outcast
Trackmania.
RETROSPECTIVES: Recollections of games past. Some good, some great, some not so great.
Simcity 2000.
Sid Meier’s Colonisation.
Space Hulk.
Overlord.
Hitman: Blood Money.
Kingpin: Life Of Crime.
The Chronicles Of Riddick.
The Bard’s Tale.
Syndicate.
Tron 2.0.
Alien Versus Predator.
Cannon Fodder.
Dungeon Keeper.
Kohan II.
Planescape: Torment.
Republic Commando.
The Longest Journey.
Writing to Reach you: Two months with Travian.
Vampire – The Masquerade: Bloodlines.
Quinns does Alien Swarm.
Stalker. Jim pontificates.
GENERAL MESSING AROUND: Funny stuff, reports from events, etc.
Tim flies across the Atlantic in real-time in MS Flight Simulator.
John Walker: Coward.
GDC 2008. Special blathering.
Kieron goes to gamecamp.
Exploring exploring games. Jim gets lost in his own words.
Limbo Of The Lost aka GOTY.
NSFW: Sporn.
Gillen does Hide & Seek festival in London.
Alec does Blizzard World Wide Invitational.
RPS Verdict: Spore Creature Creator.
Tokyo PC: Quinns reports from the depths of Japanese PC gaming.
Rebel Without A Pause Key: Kieron’s adventures with Liberal Crime Squad.
The Worst Ninja Series: Alec tries to play Ultima Online with only the in-game instructions. Madness.
Quest For Glory: John Walker dresses up as a wizard, stands in Bath city centre and tries to give people quests.
RPS Countdown: Perchance to Dream: A top 11 of recent dreams the RPS peeps have had. Psychologists, notepads ready.
Project FreezerCube: Walker decorates his fridge as a Weighted Companion Cube. Yes. Yes, he does.
CRITICAL ESSAYS: Yeah, just as poncy as they sound.
Co-op gaming: The Joy.
ErotiSim: Sex and The Sims.
No Jokes Aren’t Funny Anymore – The Orange Box moving comedy to the core of PC gaming.
World of Evecraft
ULTROMEGAFEATURES: This was Kieron’s name for them. What he means is that they’re giant, multipart features that are full of mega.
Pathologic: the ultimate retrospective. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
Champions Online: Interviews, Critical Analysis, loads of it.
The Go Team! Team Fortress 2, class by class.
The RPS 2007 Game-O-Calendar: Looking back at the best games of 2007.
Games For 2008: The year preview in full.
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Happy Birthday to my favorite site on the internets.
You’re one year older, one year wiser
Rock and roll star, king, czar, and a kaiser
A room full of friends, a mouth full of cake
Every present is for you and it feels pretty great
You’re the man of the hour, the V-I-P
You get the first slice of the P-I-E
But first blow out the candles, and make a wish
Put a smile on, it’s your birthday bitch
Congratulations guys!
This is without a doubt my favorite gaming site. Please keep providing me free entertainment. ;D
Happy 1st Birthday RPS
As a present to you on this wonderous day I have finally committed to a subscription which I have been contemplating to do for some time.
It seems only fitting that today I offer my support, but to be honest the subscription rate is considerably less than a crazy smelly aunt would give you on your birthday, sorry, next year I’ll send a card as well.
Keep up the excellent work
But now, we’re left to ask – does the birthday win over the shotgun?
Happy B-day guys. Congrats on having one of the ONLY gaming sites worth reading.
Happy birthday, great site.
What was all that 1871 bull about, then? I feel used.
Happy birthday! Keep doing what you do, but better. If possible.
Happy Birthday RPS!
Happy Birth Day to RPS and I guess everyone here, as one of the best parts of RPS is all the lively discussions we have!
Happy birthday, RPS! I salute you fine gentlemen who have consistently provided the best games writing on the internet for a whole year. Congratulations.
I can’t remember how I stumbled across this site, but it was right about this time last year as well… and boy am I glad I found it.
RPS, don’t ever change.
Happy Birfday!
happy birthday!!! ^__^
Why do I get this as “an older story” ? :p
It’s really only been one year? I have come so accustomed to it, I thought it has been around way longer. I can’t even remember how I stumbled over the site, I think I will have a look through the archives now to find the first post I am familiar with.
Happy birthday RPS!
Happy birthday!
You guys very quickly become my 1st visited page during the daily web trawl. Quality as standard.
Here’s to another year.
Happy Birthday, Rock Paper Shotgun!
I can still remember my first time here, absolutely enthralled with the idea of a website dedicated to gaming on my favourite platform.
Oh, and most of you arent ‘Yanks,’ so I enjoy that too ;)
Happy birthday, you jerks! Now I’m craving cake! :)
Happy B-Day RPS!! You keep the words coming, and we’ll keep reading them, and try to turn other people on too..
oh, and I have a huge cake to eat which i’m not waiting any longer.
GRAAAAAATZ!
You guys are the best journalists in gaming, and according to my skewed logic, this turns Rock, Paper, Shotgun in the best site about gaming. Keep it up for many, many years. :D
Happy Birthday!
I came for the Wolpaw interview & have read just about every day since. Great writing.
Happy Birthday, RPS! Falls on the same day as my girlfriends birthday, so i’m not likely to forget it in a hurry ;)
I’ll sink a drink or few in honour of your tireless crusade to make PC gaming journalism just that little bit more interesting, and a hell of a lot funnier. Congratulations!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Keep up the good work etc. :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RPS! Best PC Gaming site ever! Keep ‘em coming!
Here’s to many more years of awesome.
…Must have cake.
Tillykke..
Happy Birthday RPS.
Those who are about to game salute you.
Don’t comment here very often (I’m a lurking subscriber), but I wanted to chime in to offer my congrats. You guys have carved out a great niche for yourselves; RPS has become my favorite blog, bar-none. Happy birthday. :)
Congrats, RPS! May you enjoy your continued existence as much as your readers do.
Happy Birthday RPS! In only a year, you guys have become the best PC gaming blog out there. Keep up the good work. :)
Happy Birthday guys. I didn’t realise just how young you were when I first happened across you. Or I wouldn’t have bothered, obviously.
You are, and for me will always remain, Nothing Compared to StarCraft 2.
Happy Birthday RPS!
You are the bestest site on the interwub.
Yay, the best gaming web site ever just turned one year! Happy Birthday, RPS!
Not many sites get added to my bookmarks toolbar, but RPS was one of them. Happy Day of Birth Anniversary.
Best PC-gaming news site on the net. Keep up the good work, guys.
Mmm, cake.
Happy Birthday! And a great opportunity to look back at these games – I just enjoyed re-reading ‘No Jokes Aren’t Funny Anymore’.
Doesn’t time fly? Thanks for one year of terrific reading. (*confession*) I’m not even that much of a PC gamer but what keeps me around is the terrific, insightful writing. Keep up the great work!
Your birthday is also my birthday. The honour is all mine.
Happy birthday, RPS.
Happy (late?) birthday! It’s been fun a ride so far; holding out for at least another year of goodness!
Happy Belated Birthday, RPS!
Sorry for being late and all, but I live in the US and don’t read here until late at night (it’s still the 20th here right now, actually).
HBD, RPS!
(Sorry, no presents. Just my virtual presence.)
Thanks to you and your contributors for the hundreds of tasteful reads I’ve eagerly devoured over the last 10 months. (Om, nom, nom, nom…)
I love RPS, best blog ever!!
Is it 1874 already?
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday guys
Congrats guys. You’ve kept me reading and thinking even without owning a PC to PC game on.
One year?? I’ve only recently started reading RPS, but I’ve been under the impression that RPS has been active for a few years.
Happy birthday!
All hail Horace The Endless Bear!