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Happy New Year, Internet

By RPS on December 31st, 2008 at 11:59 pm.


Like all good Northern Europeans we’re off setting things on fire and drinking hot booze, but we nevertheless wanted to wish you all a pleasant year end, and thank you all for making the past many months so entertaining. 2009, we’ve been informed, will be even better, at least if you like reading about PC games. Which we do.

Thanks, Internet. Here’s to the future.

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  1. 01/01/2009 at 00:06 Larington says:

    Happy new year everyone.

    (Or as one of our next door neighbours just said, on the fact that it seems no one goes out into the street to celebrate the new year anymore, “Happy New Year you miserable gits”… Heard it through the window, which really ought to have some more sealant put around the windowframe.)

  2. 01/01/2009 at 00:09 Helm says:

    Happy new year from Greekland, where it has been 2009 for the whole of the two hours past already. It seems like a worthwhile year!

  3. 01/01/2009 at 00:11 LQB says:

    It isn’t 2009 in America yet, so it doesn’t count.

  5. 01/01/2009 at 00:16 KindredPhantom says:

    Happy New Year RPS! Here’s to more bizarre and pointless articles and more aim mass brawls discussions in the comments thread about DRM!! :P

  6. 01/01/2009 at 00:25 The Hammer says:

    Happy New Year, RPS! Love you!

  7. 01/01/2009 at 00:25 Naurgul says:

    Happy new year from yet another Greekland person, RPS. You do so much want to set the world on fire, sometimes!

  8. 01/01/2009 at 00:26 MeestaNob! says:

    Well, I’m out in Australia and about 11 and a half hours into Real Life 2K9 and I have to say I’m disappointed. Other than a few graphical tweaks and general usability fixes, 2009 is remarkably similar to 2008 – you really have to wonder what the developers were doing for 12 months.

    And the bugs. I mean, honestly, when all you’re doing is making a few alterations here and there, how do you manage to introduce more bugs than there were previously? The economy is shot resulting in mysteriously cheap fuel for the masses, and the weather is entirely buggered – it’s an Australian summer that hasn’t managed over 40 degrees celsius yet.

    If companies think I’m gonna keep forking out for crap like this then they’re sadly mistaken. And they can stick their DRM up their arse, why cant I be in two places at once? To the ships lads!

  9. 01/01/2009 at 00:38 Stupoider says:

    Haaappy New Year, folks!

  10. 01/01/2009 at 00:39 mpk says:

    WHERE ARE MY FUCKING HOVERCARS

  11. 01/01/2009 at 00:54 Larington says:

    @mpk: They floated away.

    Sorry, couldn’t resist.

  12. 01/01/2009 at 00:58 qrter says:

    Happy new year, all.

  13. 01/01/2009 at 01:00 gulag says:

    Best of the old and best of the new to you all.
    Keep up the good work chaps.

  14. 01/01/2009 at 01:02 A-Scale says:

    Blah blah guns blah blah europeans blah blah america blah blah bah

    Just kidding, happy near new year!

  15. 01/01/2009 at 01:08 Jonas says:

    Happy new year guys, and may you all have many, many articles and reviews commissioned in 2009.

  16. 01/01/2009 at 01:17 Hybrid says:

    Happy New Year!

  17. 01/01/2009 at 01:31 The_B says:

    Thinternet.

    Happy 2009 period, and a Merry Auxillary Genrosity Period to all.

  18. 01/01/2009 at 01:47 RichP says:

    Happy New Period of Revolution Around Sol everyone!

  19. 01/01/2009 at 02:02 Kua says:

    happeenooyurr!!!

  20. 01/01/2009 at 02:04 RhysP says:

    It’s 1:05 PM in Australia :)

  22. 01/01/2009 at 02:23 Katsumoto says:

    I spent midnight on new years eve playing saints row 2 and Call of Duty. WHAT DID YOU DO? I bet it wasn’t half as amazing as that.

    Happy new year!

  23. 01/01/2009 at 02:23 James G says:

    Happy new year! May 2009 bring us lots of PC Gaming excitement.

    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    And never brought to mind ?
    Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    And days o’ lang syne ?

  24. 01/01/2009 at 02:27 Scandalon says:

    It’s not even 7pm here in California. Not fair that Europe is in THE FUTURE!

    We don’t celebrate in the streets because
    1 – The streets are outside, and as Noth Americans, most of us fear The Outside.

    2 – The Outside is also a potential for interaction with our Neighbors. We don’t like other people, unless they have something to do with Us. Plus, Other People are scary.

    3 – The types of people that DO celebrate in the streets are Not Like Us, and are likely to shoot gun in the air.*

    *Actually, that last part is true, and is the 2nd biggest argument as to why the majority of us SHOULD be allowed to possess/carry/wield firearms.

    Anyway, happy new (Gregorian Calendar) year!

  25. 01/01/2009 at 02:30 Scandalon says:

    P.S. I think I will start a new tradition of dumping tea into the nearest body of water on New Year’s. :P

  26. 01/01/2009 at 02:34 Gap Gen says:

    Ah que c’est bon bon de prendre un verre de bière
    Avec la cuisinière dans un petit coin noir
    Pis si c’est bon bon, faites-le en riant
    Y a pas de mal là-dedans dans le temps du jour de l’an

  27. 01/01/2009 at 03:21 Mr Wonderstuff says:

    Happy new year my fellow gamers. In it for the last 23 years and in it for the next 100.

  28. 01/01/2009 at 03:23 Fede says:

    Happy new year everyone!

  29. 01/01/2009 at 04:17 Hoernchen says:

    Helloooooo. Yeah, ok, I’m drunk.

  30. 01/01/2009 at 06:11 Pags says:

    Happy new year RPS’ers. I am drunk and bitter, and on the internet. This is known as a bad mix.

  31. 01/01/2009 at 06:25 Shnyker says:

    Happy New Year from America’s Midwest! Gonna be a good year, I can feel it.

  32. 01/01/2009 at 06:33 Meat Circus says:

    Happy new WHAT.

    2009 is going to be shit. Let’s be honest here. At least I’ll have Pags to help me through the hard times.

  33. 01/01/2009 at 06:37 Pags says:

    I’M HERE FOR YOU MEAT.

    Let’s play Little Big Planet together and forget the real world.

  34. 01/01/2009 at 07:45 Heliocentric says:

    We rotated the whole way around the sun again! Heres to not either falling into the sun or falling away into the frozen wastes of deep space.

  35. 01/01/2009 at 07:56 Him says:

    I quite liked that year. Anyone fancy another one?

  36. 01/01/2009 at 09:21 Heliocentric says:

    I shouldn’t. Years make me get tired, ill. And ultimately die.

  37. 01/01/2009 at 10:29 Hmm-hmm. says:

    Whoo! Happy new year!

  38. 01/01/2009 at 11:28 Man Raised By Puffins says:

    Merry New Year internet people!

    @ mpk: They keep them on the Isle of Wight, this one is trying to escape but it won’t get far. It’s better for everyone this way.

  39. 01/01/2009 at 11:38 jalf says:

    I blame DRM! I’m sure we’d still be able to play 2008 if it wasn’t for the DRM fascists! ;)

  40. 01/01/2009 at 11:45 BigRedRock says:

    Happy new year!

  41. 01/01/2009 at 12:25 Bones says:

    Happy new (lot of games) year 2009 !

  42. 01/01/2009 at 12:33 Rei Onryou says:

    Happy New Year! Although, if I’m honest, today is just the same as yesterday, but the calendar date changed. Which just describes everyday. Sorry for spoiling it for everyone.

  43. 01/01/2009 at 12:47 Arnulf says:

    I see, you’re all up to your usual antics, eh?

    Happy New Year everyone (oder Frohes Neues as we say it around here.)

  44. 01/01/2009 at 12:49 qrter says:

    Although, if I’m honest, today is just the same as yesterday, but the calendar date changed. Which just describes everyday. Sorry for spoiling it for everyone.

    *whispers* You’ve discovered one of lifes big secrets! .. we’re actually just celebrating a changed date – in fact, most celebrations are really the celebrations of changed dates.. keep it to yourself, though..!

  45. 01/01/2009 at 13:11 Ecko says:

    Ola comrades, have a happy new year!

  46. 01/01/2009 at 13:12 bitkari says:

    Happpy New Year!

    May all of your hangovers ease quickly!

  47. 01/01/2009 at 13:19 Markoff Chaney says:

    Happy New Year! Here’s to another 135+ years of fine journalistic pieces! Huzzah!

  48. 01/01/2009 at 13:23 Chaz says:

    Well here’s to another year wasted away playing computer games and watching TV.

  49. 01/01/2009 at 13:36 TooNu says:

    Happy New Year :) have a glorious 2009

  50. 01/01/2009 at 14:00 Tom Camfield says:

    Happy merriness!

  51. 01/01/2009 at 15:36 Oddtwang says:

    Thanks, internet.

    Thinternet.

  52. 01/01/2009 at 15:49 SlappyBag says:

    Happy Zombie Jesus day!!!

    Wait, wrong one…

  53. 01/01/2009 at 16:08 MetalCircus says:

    I celebrated NYE on my own like a cunt.

    And yes, 2009 will be horrible. Enjoy your poverty everyone.

  54. 01/01/2009 at 16:55 Eamo says:

    Funny, I was just about to mention the worst gaming experience of my new year being seeing all the people yelling “HNY” instead of “Happy New Year” in world of warcraft and just above me is MetalCircus calling New Years Eve.

    Am I the only one who feels the greeting is diluted if it wasn’t even worth typing out in full?

  55. 01/01/2009 at 17:33 Larington says:

    @Eamo: Don’t worry, you’re not the only who thought that.

  56. 01/01/2009 at 17:41 Heliocentric says:

    For anyone who is interested a cracked version of 2009 just showed up on pirates bay. 0 day piracy even in the face of gregorian drm. Now you are free you enjoy this year as long as you like. The only issue is you have to stop your calender passing 31/12/2009

  57. 01/01/2009 at 18:08 tikey says:

    Happy Birthday everybody!

  58. 01/01/2009 at 18:08 Frankie says:

    Relax.

  59. 01/01/2009 at 18:18 Ishindri says:

    I spent midnight playing MINERVA: Metastasis. Finished it this morning. Harpy Neu Yah.

  60. 01/01/2009 at 18:20 DigitalSignalX says:

    Midnight found me playing Tabula Rasa and staring out the window. A neighbor had hired one of those fireworks contractor to light up the sky and make sure everyone was awake for miles around. And possibly to remind people he was irritating and filthy rich.

    Still, nice show, which is a subtle reminder that like much of 2008, in the new year we’ll probably be spending too much time behind a monitor playing games that both entertain and mildly irritate at the same time.

  61. 01/01/2009 at 19:53 Erlam says:

    “The only issue is you have to stop your calender passing 31/12/2009″

    I’m going to assume you’re either from the UK/Ireland, or Canadian, because I didn’t have to mentally convert that date into day/month/year, from month/day/year (which always confused me. Why would month be first?)

    Oh yeah, and happy new years to all. Hopefully this year will be much better than last year. Although, to be honest, as a gaming year it was rather good.

  62. 01/01/2009 at 20:07 Larington says:

    Was told last year that apparently everyones got it wrong and the date is actually supposed to be described as year/month/day, but being that I’ve grown up with it being day/month/year, I like it just the way it is in the UK.

  63. 01/01/2009 at 20:12 Jochen Scheisse says:

    @Erlam: Or Europe. I think most of us also have d/m/y stamps.

  64. 01/01/2009 at 20:45 Dioptase says:

    Happy New RPS !

  65. 01/01/2009 at 21:35 SuperNashwan says:

    Peter Molyneux says nothing exciting is coming out in 2009 and when has he ever been wrong, eh?

  66. 01/01/2009 at 22:03 Dave says:

    (which always confused me. Why would month be first?)

    Because Americans are perverse like that.

  67. 01/01/2009 at 22:24 Matt says:

    Merry Newt Year all. Horray for Salamandridae!

  68. 01/01/2009 at 23:48 Nick says:

    Happy New Year RPS.

  69. 02/01/2009 at 01:07 Eli Just says:

    Happy New year! Day late, but whatever, still the 1st. Here’s to more Russian games!

  70. 02/01/2009 at 12:26 jalf says:

    (which always confused me. Why would month be first?)

    Well, for us programmers, it’s terribly convenient if you also put the year first (so YYYYMMDD), because then you can treat it as a simple integer when sorting (most significant digits are first).
    Apart from that, I don’t have strong feelings either way, but I wish people could settle on one format. When I see a date like 05/07/08, I always have to scan the page for other dates until I find one where one of the numbers is above 12 to work out what format they’re using.

  71. 02/01/2009 at 12:55 hydra9 says:

    Just heard about this new year thing. Happy new year!

    Frankie has the best comment, btw.

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