By RPS on December 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pm.
You know what we’ve earned? A holiday! So after our 12th Game of Christmas goes up today (what will it be? what’s the game of the year?!), the four titans of RPS will be spinning a cocoon around their weary caterpillar bodies and resting for a week. Once our pupae state is over we will emerge like hairy moths into a new year. A year we are going to call “2009″. We hope it will catch on. That said, bits and pieces will be appearing throughout the week – keep checking. It’s not like it’s possible to stop Kieron writing Sunday Papers.
Thank you to every single reader who has clicked on our site this year. It’s been a goodun, which has seen Rock, Paper, Shotgun grow and develop into something we’re damned proud of. We’re only going to get better, so you should probably wear protective clothing, or at least a firm hat. Raise a glass to Horace The Endless Bear at this festive time of year, or to whichever minority religious deity you are prescribed, and make merry. Happy Christmas everyone. We’re back proper on the very 2nd of January.
Merry Christmas to one and all at RPS… See you in the new year…
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Merry XmAS!
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1 week?! i’ll miss your words guys. well, happy holidays and best regards. see you in “2009″. from brazil – maicon (read it like michael, hehe)
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, RPS!
The holiday is surely a well deserved one ;)
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Excellent timing, that’s one less distraction from my BA project which is due on January 5. Thanks RPS!
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I can say without a doubt that RPS is one of the finest PC gaming info sites I have in my bookmarks. You gentlemen run a class act shop.
happy holidays guys.
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It’s going to be a long week.
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I got the week off work. Now what the hell am I supposed to do? Oh well, off to the pub I suppose…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS RPS! See you in… THE FUTURE!
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Merry Christmas chaps! Enjoy your well-earned break. Have a good’un!
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Thanks for the word-thinks RPS. Have a good one.
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Happy Christmas, guys.
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Thank you, RPS, for breathing new life into games journalism. I enjoyed reading your blog very much. Have a great Christmas and a fantastic start into 09.
Gurrah
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Merry Christmas to all.
Thank you RPS for all of your stories this year – I love this site!
PS – If you’ve got a copy of Darwinia or Multiwinia – fire it up today to get a nice surprise!
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Merry Christmas to the lot of yers.
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Merry christmas chaps. You’ve earned a good ol’ rest.
Hope everyone on RPS has a good’un!
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Have a merry christmas and a great holiday. You all have delivered Grade A entertainment and info the whole year round. Looking forward to the next one!
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Merry Christmas ! Thank you for a great year of PC gaming coverage.
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Merry Christmas, and thanks for an excellent year in PC games journalism. A truly excellent blog, and the first website I accessed on my Wind once I had run windows update and replaced IE with Opera.
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Merry Christmas one and all.
Enjoy yer well-earned break RPS, and see you in 2009…
Right, I’m off to play Dead Space and GTA4.
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Happy Xmas RPS!
Thx you for being. Peace and prosper.
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Happy holiday of your particular flavor around now, and here’s to another great year of RPS ahead!
*toasts morning coffee*
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Merry Christmas all! ect
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Thanks RPS. Tharpee’es.
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A whole week!? What the heck am I supposed to do? Relate to people?
Good on you guys for creating and maintaining an awesome site with a great community. This is someplace I always enjoy coming to. Hopefully I’ll get to play some multiplayer games with people soon.
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Enjoy your holidays guys, you’ve definitely deserved it!
Looking forward to another year of RPS.
Merry Christmas!
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Thanks for a fantastic 2008 in games. I don’t want to believe the hype in case I get disappointed, but next year could be the best 2009 ever. Equally, it could be the worst, so here’s hoping the developers know what they’re doing.
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With RPS’s help, I reckon we can make the forthcoming 2009 the best 2009 EVER!
Happy new 2009.
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All hail Horace The Endless Bear!
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Happy RPS !
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No more RPS? Worst christmas present ever!
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Happy (Insert Holiday Name)
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Happy holidays!
You guys have reason to be proud, keep up the good work!
(Horace looks a bit like a wiener dog, btw.)
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Merry Christmas and a happy new year (soon). I’m so happy I finally found a PC oriented website with lots of tips to games and good articles and interviews. Hope next year will continue to rock.
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Heil to our RPS overlords! I welcome thy words in the new year!
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Endless bear is endless!
Let’s hope RPS will be the same. Thanks for a lovely time, you guys.
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Now really. How much are they paying you, RPS, to relax your vigilance while they install DRM on all our computers?
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Merry Crimbo
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Eating too much Christmas lunch is a bad idea. Happy Xmas and here’s to a great 2009!
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Aww, Horace looks sad above. Not Horace the Friendless Bear, I hope?
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I may be a lowly peasant emigree from Gloucester, but I hope that you will still deign to listen to my Christmas Wishes! Merry Christmas, to the best gaming blog IN DA WORLD.
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Thanks for all the great posts guys. Best things I’ve read all year, the present I want the most would be another similar but better.
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Oh, and on another note, my wife (the foremost expert on cute bears nation, and possibly world, -wide) believes Horace not to be sad. No! But merely puzzled by the hat.
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Slackers ;)
And @ Gnarl. Yes there is puzzlement, but I think there is a definite hint of sadness. Probably because he hadn’t realised where his anus was and inadvertently pooped in his own cave.
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Recognising the expression on Horace’s face is the highest form of blasphemy.
Also, his anus exists within a quantum reality.
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In that case I think he just pooped a Higg’s boson.
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Longbear is Ho! Ho! Hoooooooooooooooooooorace.
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My anus exists within a quantum reality too.
I have a special cream for it.
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Merry Christmas to you all, even though where you are it’s to-morrow already. I hope everyone got to be with all their family and friends today.
See you next year!
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It’s not tomorrow where I am. I’m pretty sure I would have noticed.
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Horace is sponsored by the Large Hadron Collider: soft, strong and very, very long.
(May cause black holes, batteries not included)
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun is pure, columbian WIN.
Merry Christmas guys!
Also, you are all amazing.
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Thanks for helping an aging junkie support his addiction. You blokes are the best.
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Long time Lurker, First time poster. I wanted my first post to contain nothing short of unabashed, elated gratitude at you fine gentlemen for the best PC gaming news/blog/whateverthehellyouwant website out there on these Tubes I surf through daily. May you continue to offer fine morsels and delectable tasty treats for those of us who know the pinnacle of gaming isn’t relegated to twiddling our thumbs but, instead, to vaguely moving your right arm while mashing keys with our left hand.
Above all, I give my gratitude. Thank You, Good Sirs. Keep up the good Work. Thank You.
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Surely if Horace is Endless, he has no end of any kind, rear-end or not?
I’ll leave it up to the official Horaceologians to determine the truth of the matter, though.
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There are those who saw his backside first and insist he has no front.
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If an endless bear poops in the wood, does it make a sound? Does the sound ever end.
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Horace never poops. The maximum speed that the food he eats can travel is the speed of light, so if he is endless, the food he eats never reaches his quantum posterior.
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Heads up to all you RPS’ians: The Steam sale’s just hit.
There’s actually some really good deals in there, but everything’s at least 10% off.
Shame the guys went on hiatus before being able to get this one last story out.
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Thanks Hivemind. Thivemind.
May 2009 be the best 2008 evar!
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The question started “if” it was a philosophical question not metaphysical. Short form: that was not an answer. What if it poops?
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Those suffering from RPS withdrawal symptoms might want to check here. Quite entertaining Super Smash Bros. bashing lies within.
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Merry Christmas, fine fellows of RPS. Keep the port out of grandmother’s grasping, pallsied hands this festive season eh what?
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Heliocentric: Apologies, although I note that sometimes you don’t use full stops (e.g. from ‘ “if” ‘ to ‘it’), so I claim shenanigans on any grammatical quibbles.
If it poops: again, I defer to the Horaceologians, but my understanding is that the universe ends.
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Happy Xmas or what-have-you! Best blog on the whole wide wide world of web.
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Slightly belated Merry Christmas, RPS! Here’s hoping Space Year 2009 will be as enlightening and hilarious as 2008 was.
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Maybe PC gaming will finally die in the year 2009. ;)
Thanks for the words and podcasts and beards, RPS.
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So what is a follower of Horace the Endless Bear called, anyway? I’m thinking of converting from Pastafarianism.
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Thanks, guys!
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And special thanks to those of us who give RPS some shiny pennies every month in good faith that they will eventually reward us with some splendid subscriber content. ;)
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Well, the occasional email offers are nice, as is the warm happy feeling.
And not feeling guilty about blocking the adds.
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Wait, what?
E-mail offers you say?
I haven’t blocked anything RPS related and there’s been nothing going into my junk-o-folder without me telling it to do so that I’ve noticed.
What have I been missing? :(
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