Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Half-Life: On Turning 35 And Leaving RPS

By Kieron Gillen on September 30th, 2010 at 11:10 am.

Today I hit half my biblically allotted time on Earth. I’m also leaving RPS’ full-time staff. That’s my last regular commitment as a “real” games journalist. These fifteen years have been a pleasure.

For a little more of what it means for the pirate-ship that is RPS, read on.

In short: Don’t worry too much.

This hasn’t been a sudden thing. “Kieron Leaves On September 30th” has been on the RPS Calender for most of the year. As such, we’ve had plenty of time to bring Quinns in as the new regular writer. You’ll all have seen by now exactly how lightning-in-a-bottle he is and what he brings to the site. I can’t wait to see what he’ll do next.

Equally, while I’m not on the regular staff I’ll remain a Director of RPS, so be involved in shaping the site’s future. More importantly, I remain a gamer whose main response the medium is going on big rants. When I decide I want to write ten thousand words on an indie strategy game no-one else gives a toss about, there’s not a power in the world that can stop me. Unfortunately. My dilettante ass will be showing up whenever I have something worthwhile to say. In other words, I’ll basically be filling the position Quinns was before he came on full time.

Take-away message number 1: Quinns is the new me. I’m the new Quinns.

Those who follow my career may be wondering whether this actually has anything to do with me signing an exclusive contract with Marvel. Well… yes and no. Yes, it affected the timing. Not because it has anything to do with whether I can write games journalism or not, but because with the contract signed I felt it important to give my full, undivided and primary attention to the comic-writing.

However, no, it didn’t affect whether I was leaving or not. I’d be leaving around now anyway. When Jim floated the idea for RPS back in 2007, I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to offer my oar for the Viking longship. I knew it’ll be a long haul to get it to a position to actually make money. I also knew that I was kind of half out the door anyway. If I was going to do a load of work for no money, I’d be much better off doing indie comics for no cash. That would feed into where I wanted to be heading.

On the other hand: how could I say no?

It was a site which needed to exist. Number one on my list of unfulfilled games journalist desires was “I’d like to launch a mag”. It took me a while to actually realise that’s what RPS was, but a chance to build something on our own terms, embodying what the four of us believed about writing was pretty much irresistible. If I was going to leave games journalism, I’d like to leave something like RPS behind.

The point being: to leave it behind. I knew that as soon as the site was commercially valid, I’d probably be out the door.

We had Eurogamer take over our ads early this year. You’ll have noticed that we’ve started having a more commercial class of adverts. While we’re resolutely anti-pop-up and multiple-pages and all that, some of you may have been a little annoyed by it. You’ll also hopefully have noticed the greater amount of content, from multiple feature posts per day to just a general amount of news churn. Soon, you’ll see improvements to the site infrastructure – starting with the comments threads. And there’s other special things which we’ve got lined up for the near future. The ads money has made all that possible.

The ads money and the readership, because ads without anyone to read them are worthless. Pulling up the stats for the last 30 days, and we had 770,959 unique visitors and 4,871,919 page impressions. These are not small figures. We’re the largest generalist PC games site in the anglophone sphere.

Readership + Ads = Money = A sustainable site.

Thank you for reading. Assuming you aren’t running adblock, just by doing so you’re helping to pay for us to make the site better. And, as always, a special shout out to the people who are paying us directly – the RPS subscribers.

Take-away message number 2: I’m not leaving RPS because it’s failed. I’m leaving RPS because it’s successful, and so no longer needs me.

But I am, in a real way, leaving RPS.

I won’t be sitting in the chat-room, posting sexy renders of the latest guns and making terrible puns based around bad pop music – and if you want the one real change from me leaving, it’d be a downturn in references to mid-nineties zine-kid glitterpop.

Of course, I’m sentimental – sentimental enough to fire off a last round from the games-journalism-journalism gun elsewhere. I’ve been a professional games journo for the last fifteen years. I’ve been doing this for longer than some of you have been alive. However, I’m aware of how lucky I’ve been. When I left PC Gamer back in 2003 to go freelance, I assumed that I’d basically done the big body of work which I felt which would have been my highpoint. Those five, drunken years on the mag would be basically as good as my games journalist experience would get. And despite some of the stuff I got up to after I left – don’t mention the war – all of that rested on those five years. And part of me was a little sad that it was as good as it got. I never really got to have my own Amiga Power.

Which is why I’m lucky. Against all expectations, when I thought I’d seen and done everything I could do in the field, the last three years have confounded those lessons. It could be better. It could be anything. RPS broke my heart and patched it back together on a daily basis. I consider it the absolute highpoint of my career. I’m very lucky.

Time to die.

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  1. 30/09/2010 at 11:13 Choca says:

    For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.

    Good luck dude.

  3. 30/09/2010 at 11:14 Rich says:

    “These fifteen years have been a pleasure.”
    Wow. I’ve only been aware of this site for two years.
    What did you call it back then; Rock Paper Spear?

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:25 Rich says:

      Oh right, 15 years of game journalism, not RPS.

      Anyway, thanks for a damn good site. Before finding this place I was left wallowing in the filth of Gamespot.

    • 30/09/2010 at 13:26 Lobiency says:

      Whew – another soul saved from that sucking hole I was stuck in, too.

      Thanks for all your contributions Kieron, your (regular) presence will be missed.

  4. 30/09/2010 at 11:15 cliffski says:

    Kieron you will be sorely missed. You were the first games journalist I ever actually nervously spoke to, and the first games journo (along with tim) who I ever actually physically met.
    Thanks for everything you have done for gaming, pc gaming, and indie pc gaming is particular.

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:21 James says:

      Well said.

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:45 Peter Radiator Full Pig says:

      In the same vein:
      You were the first games journalist I actually took note of.

      You piece on Morrowind written for PC Gamer made me buy what turned out to be the best game i have ever played. You tale of getting Azzuras Star and throwing it away because it was too powerful was incredibly against what i thought games were, but it was an eye opener.

      Then i red your ZangbaTK piece, and from then on, would always check the magazine to read your stuff first.

      And congratulations, Quinns. We all knew youd make it.
      I hope Kieron lends you some of his iron.

    • 30/09/2010 at 19:33 Oddtwang says:

      I too hold Kieron and that Zangband articel responsible for my love of Roguelikes, with all the joy and frustration they bring. Curse you, Gillen, you talented bastard!

  5. 30/09/2010 at 11:15 CoyoteTheClever says:

    Wow. I’ll miss you a lot Kieron. I love the other guys here, but you were always my favorite writer, since you were the one they always called in to review the games I was interested in. I hope you have a long and successful career as a comic book writer though!

  6. 30/09/2010 at 11:16 Dan Lawrence says:

    You’ll be missed.

  7. 30/09/2010 at 11:17 Rinox says:

    Good luck and ‘farewell’ Kieron. Your memory won’t be lost like a tear in the rain. ;-) Thanks for the years.

  8. 30/09/2010 at 11:17 Thank you! says:

    Thanks KG for everything you did! RPS has become the greatest PC gaming blog ever. I’ll surely miss the sunday papers..

  9. 30/09/2010 at 11:18 Petethegoat says:

    Kieran, no!
    You and Quinns were always my favourite RPSers.

    Alec I have a slightly ingrained hatred for the things he said about Stalker: Clear Sky.

    Jim is okay, thinking about it. I don’t give Jim enough credit, really. Good job Jim.

    As for John, well he is usually crying in a corner.
    Poor John.

  10. 30/09/2010 at 11:19 Owen says:

    It’s been a pleasure Kieron. I’ve been reading your game-inspired writings for many, many years. I absolutely wish you all the best in all your future endeavors mate; also it was damn nice to actually meet you at the RPS Thinkosaurium,

    All the best sir
    Owen

  11. 30/09/2010 at 11:19 BooleanBob says:

    Aw, man. Bye Kieron.

  12. 30/09/2010 at 11:19 Feet says:

    Best of luck, cock. Thanks for all the words.

  13. 30/09/2010 at 11:20 James says:

    Sad to see you go (relatively speaking), but understandable. Best wishes in all that you do, and thanks for your role in this site. It is really very special and shiny.

  14. 30/09/2010 at 11:21 smokingkipper says:

    For some reason the only thing I can think of, was remembering a picture taken of Kieron back in the days when he was at E3 with Gamer, drunk as a newt with his arms around some booth ladies.

    Yes, that is how we should remember him.

    So long, comic man!

  15. 30/09/2010 at 11:21 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:

    Mr Salinger, can I have an autograph please?

  16. 30/09/2010 at 11:22 Fede says:

    Thanks, Kieron. For all you wrote and for helping RPS start. And for everything you’ll delight us with in the future! :)

    It will be a little sad to see you post less.
    Good luck, and happy marriage!

  17. 30/09/2010 at 11:22 AndrewC says:

    So what sort of music does Quinns like?

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:32 user@example.com says:

      oh no

      what will happen to the sunday papers now :( they will be silent and depressing like a tomb

      BRING BACK KIERON

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:33 Quintin Smith says:

      I like Chaos Separator.

      (Is that a serious question? I like indie, rock, electro, uh, pitchforky stuff?)

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:38 AndrewC says:

      What is your favourite flower?

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:46 lhzr says:

      @quintin: good to know that the sunday papers music links will be worth clicking from now on (if they won’t be too hipsterish, that is)

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:51 Alexander Norris says:

      Seriously though: what will happen to the Papers now? It always seemed like the sort of thing only KG could be bothered to do. What will I do without my handy digest of things worth reading every week? Will I have to actually pay attention and read websites other than RPS, now? This saddens me.

    • 30/09/2010 at 13:21 VelvetFistIronGlove says:

      Alexander Norris: I presume The New Kieron Gillen (i.e. the old Quinns) or someone will continue them. whether or not the Sunday Papers continues, I can recommend Critical Distance‘s weekly roundup, as well as Nukezilla‘s Sunday-Papers-equivalent.

    • 30/09/2010 at 14:13 Huggster says:

      I vote for more film and book recommendations in the new Sunday papers.

      That is what Sundays are for, after all – kicking back with a good book or film, visiting castles, urbexing into missile silos.

      There is plenty of other media that “enriches the gamers experience” but is not gaming news.

  18. 30/09/2010 at 11:23 Memphis-Ahn says:

    Fuck you, Kieron.

  19. 30/09/2010 at 11:23 Web Cole says:

    <3 you Kieron.

    All the best in your future endeavors.

  20. 30/09/2010 at 11:23 Mooglepies says:

    You will be missed.

    Are you at least showing up for drinkies tomorrow night?

  21. 30/09/2010 at 11:24 unmightysten says:

    Gutted at Kieron’s exit but really pleased that Quinns is now a full time writer.

    I’ve always seen Kieron as being the basis for the personality of RPS, and Quinns has written most, if not all of my top favourite articles on here (starting with the Pathologic one and, more recently, getting me addicted to Minecraft, the bast).

    So, as long as Kieron’s still helping steer the ship it ain’t too bad at all.

    Good luck at Marvel KG.

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:28 user@example.com says:

      Quinns wrote the Pathologic stuff? Man. I have a terrible habit of not always realising who writes the cool things I’m reading until much later.

  22. 30/09/2010 at 11:24 Groove says:

    You’ll be missed.

  23. 30/09/2010 at 11:24 Skusey says:

    Fair enough. Thanks and good luck.

  24. 30/09/2010 at 11:25 user@example.com says:

    oh god no–

    “Equally, while I’m not on the regular staff I’ll remain a Director of RPS, so be involved in shaping the site’s future. More importantly, I remain a gamer whose main response the medium is going on big rants. When I decide I want to write ten thousand words on an indie strategy game no-one else gives a toss about, there’s not a power in the world that can stop me.”

    oh thank god.

    Here’s hoping for another 35 years of your dilettante ass.

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:27 user@example.com says:

      (This should not in any way be read as implying that Quinns is anything other than a wonderful person who RPS is lucky to have around, and congratulations to him on being promoted. Does he get a pay rise?)

  25. 30/09/2010 at 11:26 Nimic says:

    Well, this sucks!

  26. 30/09/2010 at 11:26 Archonsod says:

    Good luck with the comics, you will be missed.

  27. 30/09/2010 at 11:26 Samy says:

    good luck @ marvel. I’ve been following you since… 2008 i think, and you’ve been a little part of my daily routine. I wouldn’t be against some regular info about what/how you’re doing. I don’t like to keep track of people by stalking them online and would appreciate to know about your projects/ventures

    good wind in your sails, may the horizon be full of riches beyond your wildest dreams * waxes poetic *

  28. 30/09/2010 at 11:26 HexagonalBolts says:

    I love you Kieron. Thank you so very much for all of the fascinating articles you’ve fed my mind over the past years. You’ve developed my ideas and my own eloquence, and the gift of education is a priceless one. I wish you the very best of luck in all your future endeavours.

  29. 30/09/2010 at 11:26 Kast says:

    Well damn.

    Kieron, as gushing and frankly little creepy as this sounds you are the person I think of as defining what games journalism means to me. You have raised games analysis to an entirely new level, at least in my experience. The industry and our experience of it will be poorer for your absence.

    Best of luck with your continued comics career. Who knows, one day I might just buy one.

  30. 30/09/2010 at 11:26 The Rev Owen says:

    Happy birthday, good luck and thanks.

  31. 30/09/2010 at 11:26 mrmud says:

    Kieron make sure to stock up on Iron before its to late!

  32. 30/09/2010 at 11:27 Synoptase says:

    I’ve been following RPS since the beginning and just realize how fast you guys got known. Thanks to an incredible journalistic style and a very rich content.
    You made indie gaming trendy.

    Thank you Kieron and my buddy Damien, former content manager on Empire of Sport waves you goodbye too !

  33. 30/09/2010 at 11:27 Dean says:

    Really sad to see you go – your stuff was always great to read and you were brilliant in Doctor Who.

    On a more selfish note, will The Sunday Papers continue? Either being done here by someone else, or on your own blog and little less game-centric? You always picked out some of the most fascinating stuff and if not I’m going to have to re-arrange my entire Sunday schedule. Or in other words: your stuff was great but what I’ll really miss is the thing where you didn’t do most the writing thanks.

  34. 30/09/2010 at 11:27 Garg says:

    No more The Sunday Papers? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.

    • 30/09/2010 at 12:10 sfury says:

      I hope not! Someone else will pick it up.

      It has become part of my routine, I really looked forward to Sundays and reading some thoughtful things compiled from the vast and chaotic internet-pc-gaming-land.

      Farewell and good luck, Kieron, you’ve written some brilliant stuff that was delight to read and I’ll be looking forward to finding here new thoughtful writings from you, when you have the time.

  35. 30/09/2010 at 11:28 Cooper says:

    I only come here for the mid-nineties glitter-pop references, no one else deigns to take 15 year old pop music as seriously as it deserves… Now I’ll feel all alone again, listening to “At the Club” on repeat…

  36. 30/09/2010 at 11:28 monk says:

    Sad to see you go! Good luck with everything.

    Also, happy birthday :)

  37. 30/09/2010 at 11:29 Matt says:

    Best of luck in everything you do. You’ve been an utter inspiration.

  38. 30/09/2010 at 11:29 Mr Pink says:

    I’ve been a fan since that first PCG Thief review. Sad to see you moving on, but excited to see what Quinns is going to do. Most exciting young writer since Tom Francis for my money.

  39. 30/09/2010 at 11:29 CMaster says:

    Hmm, has to be said it’s a real shame. Your work has often been a big part of the draw to the site. Also, one of the more frequent posters (although Quinns has indeed eclipsed you recently).

    Also, thankfully I’ve warmed to Quinns – didn’t like his early bit-part stuff on RPS, but now I’ve come to appreciate what he offers.

    Best of luck with all that comics malarky – I’ve got a friend who thinks you are pretty much the best writer out there at the moment.

  40. 30/09/2010 at 11:29 Jan Willem Nijman says:

    :’(

    you will be missed!

  41. 30/09/2010 at 11:30 lurker10945 says:

    what will become of the sunday papers?!? surely no one on staff can fail as exquisitely as you at not providing links to miserable pop tunes… can they?

  42. 30/09/2010 at 11:30 Okami says:

    Godspeed, Mr. Gillen! Godspeed!

  43. 30/09/2010 at 11:30 MrThingy says:

    Is 35 really considered the halfway point?? :(

    How existentially dispairingish…

    • 30/09/2010 at 12:01 Christian Otholm says:

      If I remember my Mountain Goats, the Bible claims the average age is “a full three score and ten”, or 70.

    • 30/09/2010 at 14:32 Saiko Kila says:

      Genesis 6:3 states that 120 is the limit. Of course Bible was written by many people, pushing their own (or their sponsors) agendas, with different mindsets and temperaments, some of them weren’t really careful when reading others, so there are many discrepancies. The 120 yrs guy was probably playing safe.

  44. 30/09/2010 at 11:30 dartt says:

    Are you getting Alec on weekends? How are you dividing up the CD collection?

    I’m sorry to see you go, even if you’ll popping in now and then. I’ll miss looking at my RPS feed and spotting some awful pun based on a some Supergrass or Clash lyric.

    I worry for your internal organs as I expect there will be a lot of pint buying on Friday night.

  45. 30/09/2010 at 11:30 Steelfists says:

    Well, good luck with Marvel and everything.

    Goddamit I’ll miss the Sunday Papers. Can’t you just do one more RPS Criminal Act to go out with a bang? Break into the PCG offices this time?

  46. 30/09/2010 at 11:30 Aon says:

    You will be missed. Thank you for the NGJ and good writing.

  47. 30/09/2010 at 11:30 houseinrlyeh says:

    I’ll miss you – the bad puns, the drunken grammar, the pop music links, and the great writing with the style and insight I wish more games writers outside RPS would have.

    Glad to be able to read you in the comics. And happy birthday!

  48. 30/09/2010 at 11:31 standardman says:

    Always enjoyed reading your stuff on here and PCG before that. Now I’ll enjoy reading your comics and the occasional rant.

    All the best for the future, have fun in the Marvel universe.

    So, who here hasn’t read Phonogram yet? I have a stick, I am poking you with it.

  49. 30/09/2010 at 11:31 Nova says:

    Farewell.
    But I join the cry: What happens with the Sunday Papers?

  50. 30/09/2010 at 11:31 NukeLord says:

    Happy Birthday! Good luck with your future endeavors and thanks for everything you’ve done so far.

    Does this mean Quinns is finally going to get his name underneath “Rock, Paper, Shotgun was:”?

  51. 30/09/2010 at 11:32 gulag says:

    There goes our Lester Bangs.

  52. 30/09/2010 at 11:32 Graeme Strachan says:

    It’s not going to be quite the same without Kieron around. I’ve been listening to his insightful rantery with more keen interest than in any Games Journalist since Roger Frames (a joke for the oldies)

    Can’t say it’s a surprise since the comic work took off properly but Marvel’s gain is certainly our loss. I’m sure Quinns will be great but this really is the end of an era.

    salut mon capitain.

  53. 30/09/2010 at 11:32 tomeoftom says:

    Nooo! Mr. Gillen: thank you so, so much for your writing. You’ve led me to enjoy music I thought I’d always hate, given epiphany after epiphany on the nature of games, opened my mind to enjoying so many new things – but most of all you’ve always made for excellent, brilliant reading. Your lively, harsh, cuttingly intelligent and open prose is a style that will be sorely missed. Happy birthday!

  54. 30/09/2010 at 11:32 James G says:

    Damnit, you will be missed. Where else will we get links to varied music in the Sunday Papers?

    But Thank You. RPS has been fantastic, and while despite the “Kieron Gillen’s blog” jokes from PCG, it has been a product of all members of the hivemind, the distinct voices of all of you means that this will be a different place with you gone. As a major part of RPS, you have been responsible for the general increase in spending on games I have made in the past couple of years, not to mention by embracing of the Indie games scene.

    But of course, it would be selfish of me to lock you up in a little cage, with a computer and high speed internet connection, forcing you to write RPS articles for me. However, I can be a selfish guy, so you might want to watch out for suspicious looking folk standing outside your door, cage in hand. If you do manage to evade journalism slavery though, I wish you all the best for the future.

    Now SURELY Quinns needs to be added to the hivemind list at the bottom.

  55. 30/09/2010 at 11:32 misterk says:

    goodbye, and good luck in your future endevaours. You had rather hinted at this in other places, so this isn’t a total surprise, although it is still a little sad. I probably wouldn’t have found this site if you hadn’t written for it, becoming aware of you because were a Kieron who lived in Bath, even if you spelt your name wrong.

    I’m trying to come up with some kind of “the king is dead” joke, but I’m not feeling it…

  56. 30/09/2010 at 11:33 brog says:

    goodbye, it’s been awesome.
    when i started reading RPS, i didn’t pay much attention to who wrote each piece. but eventually i noticed more and more the strong correlation between me really enjoying a piece and “Kieron Gillen” sitting in the writer tag. you’ve done good, and will be missed. i look forward to the continued big rants.
    quinns seems a good replacement, i think he will make an acceptable kieron gillen.

  57. 30/09/2010 at 11:33 Chris Evans says:

    Best of luck for everything in the future Kieron, I have been a keen fan of your work since I started reading PCG and your pieces. You have done the world of PC gaming and games journalism proud :)

  58. 30/09/2010 at 11:33 groovychainsaw says:

    Good luck in your comics writing Kieron, I’ve always enjoyed your games writing and it will be sadly missed, having grown up alongside your articles (I used to read amiga power myself, and stumbled across a preview of halo for the PC, written by yourself, back when it was going to be a PC RTS the other day…!). I followed you (and the other chaps, natch) here the day RPS launched where I’ve gained a rediscovered enthusiasm for PC games that had been lost through my console years.

    Without RPS, I’d be missing all the indie experiences I’ve had since your site started, too numerous to mention and I wouldn’t have spent half as much money on my PC getting it up to spec to enjoy these games. So you can be confident RPS has left PC gaming in a better state through your words and created a solid foundation here at RPS to enable that to continue.

    I’ll definitely miss your opinion pieces so I’ll bookmark your workblog just in case one turns up over there. Again, good luck with your future writings. As you say, many of the top games journos have gone on to greater (? More mainstream?) things and their quality has shone through. I’m sure you’ll be no different.

    Thanks for all the fish.

  59. 30/09/2010 at 11:34 Headache says:

    Good luck and fortune for all your future endeavours Kieron. I collected PC GAMER (and ZONE) for years and I can still remember reading as you first joined and then moved up the PCG hierarchy. Your thoughts and opinions on gaming and the industry have been a pleasure to read over the years.

    A toast – To Kieron, top chap and gentleman!

  60. 30/09/2010 at 11:34 Interstella84 says:

    Having followed Kieron’s game writing since he first joined PC Gamer, all I can say is this – thank you for 12 years of wonderful, insightful, often angry, frequently hilarious and always well-written articles. Both myself and my younger brother have spent many drunken hours debating the world of games journalism, and RPS and yourself have been excellent over the 3 years of existence (long may RPS continue!). Best of luck for the future, I’m sure you will excel in the comics-world!
    Ciao man.

  61. 30/09/2010 at 11:34 Ben Abraham says:

    What can I say that isn’t trite and stupidly saccharine? I’ll just say, I hope you know how much you’ve meant to me over the years, Kieron.

  62. 30/09/2010 at 11:35 Matt says:

    Time for a New-New Games Journalism Manifesto?

    Best of luck at Marvel.

  63. 30/09/2010 at 11:35 Will says:

    Very best of luck in your new travels sir. Although I always felt slightly guilty reading this site, coming from the nearby dirty, smelly city of Gloucester, I have loved every single word written by all 5 of you. Many congratulations on the Marvel contract, too.

    -Will

  64. 30/09/2010 at 11:36 The Colonel says:

    You’d better come along to the next Thinkposium!

  65. 30/09/2010 at 11:36 Jake says:

    So long, Kieron.

    I have a lot to thank you for – your Hostile Waters review got me reading Warren Ellis back when I was wee, which in itself was a catalyst for my expanding cultural intake as a teenager. I went from an 11 year old who bought PC Gamer because I had played Age of Empires at a friends house, to reading William Gibson based on KG’s Deus Ex review, to doing a degree focussing on new journalism.

    So thanks, Brem.

    Kenickie are still shit, though.

  66. 30/09/2010 at 11:38 Eire says:

    Good luck.

  67. 30/09/2010 at 11:38 Sardaukar says:

    Marvel comic writing? I can see it now, a new website: http://www.rockpapersnikt.com!

  68. 30/09/2010 at 11:38 Malagate says:

    If 35 is his Half Life, does that mean Kieron knows exactly how and when he will die? Is that his superpower? Little wonder he works for Marvel now…

    • 30/09/2010 at 11:40 Rich says:

      That’s an ability wizards have. Witches too.

    • 30/09/2010 at 12:27 Cooper says:

      Half lives are based on probability. i.e: During a half life, any one nucleus has a 50% chance of decaying. That chance remains at 50%, no matter how many half lives the nucleus has lived through. Which means that for every half life, half the quantity of radionucleids decay.

      Basically, this means Kieron is eternal (dividing by half will never reach zero). He will, however, decay to the point where the trace left of him is so miniscule as to be undetectable.

    • 30/09/2010 at 12:40 sfury says:

      Let’s see if when he reaches 40 he’ll declare he’s now a magician and worships the ancient Roman snake god Glycon. Then we’ll know he’s conquered comics too. ;)

  69. 30/09/2010 at 11:38 MrSafin says:

    Good luck, Kieron.

    I really loved your writing style.

  70. 30/09/2010 at 11:39 Piispa says:

    So long and thanks for all the fish!

  71. 30/09/2010 at 11:39 Schaulustiger says:

    Thanks for all your work on the site, Kieron, I enjoyed reading all the smart stuff you wrote in the last three years.

    Good luck at Marvel, sir!

  72. 30/09/2010 at 11:39 Rich says:

    …and thanks for all the fish.

  73. 30/09/2010 at 11:39 myros says:

    All the best in whatever way this crazy little thing called life takes you. Been a pleasure reading your stuff and look forward to whatever contribution you make in the future.

    And of course congrats to RPS on the continued growth and sucess, dont let it go to your head now mm k.

  74. 30/09/2010 at 11:39 Deepo says:

    Thank you for everything Kieron, you will be missed. I’ve enjoyed following your career from long haired new guy in PC Gamer to slightly-less long haired gaming oracle. Good luck with the comics!

  75. 30/09/2010 at 11:40 Ian says:

    It’s been a treat reading all your stuff here, Kieron: thanks for all the splendid words cajoled and coerced into sentences that repaid careful reading and consideration; thanks for the terrible puns; the occasional link to an unknown or forgotten piece of pop wizardry; and for reinforcing the fact that games writing could actually be good writing on its own merits.

    To borrow the closing line from your workblog, I can’t wait to see what you do next.

  76. 30/09/2010 at 11:40 Hmm-Hmm. says:

    Well, I do hope the focus on your comics works out for you. Good luck, have fun and thanks for all the posts.

    I do admit I was a bit disappointed by you comparing yourself to Quinns here. It’s only true when considering the number of RPS members. I dunno, it seems to do a disservice to the specific talents of the both of you.

  77. 30/09/2010 at 11:40 RagingLion says:

    My Spotify playlist has just ticked over onto Senior Living by Rokysopp as I write this. Poignant given the start of the post if not exactly accurate or representative.

    I’d never heard the name Kieron Gillen before starting to read RPS regularly about 2 or so years ago, but it’s clear from what I’ve read over that time that there are very few other people on this planet who have left such a great impression on the field of games journalism and related fields than yourself. It’s been great to have someone with such a wealth of experience, knowledge and writing ability to comment on the most significant game-related stories of the day and offer some unique and valuable insight that I feel I can actually trust or at least attach worth to. Have really enjoyed the numerous features you’ve contributed to that offer commentary on wider themes within the game-making world – has always been interesting.

    Good luck with your future endeavours, but it’s nice to know you’ll still show your face here from time to time.

  78. 30/09/2010 at 11:41 mandrill says:

    o7. Happy trails cowboy.

    You do realise that you’re living my dream and I’m incredibly jealous right?

  79. 30/09/2010 at 11:41 Spacewalk says:

    Oh it’s not so bad, he’ll still be out there riding on the old mine road whenever Quinns needs direction. Or locating a hover device.

  80. 30/09/2010 at 11:41 teo says:

    Sad panda =( you will be missed
    I grew up reading your stuff in PCG. When I was 12 years old, reading the H&D review, I barely understood half the words! I learned English reading the Deus Ex review 50 times :) You’ve always been my favourite games writer.

    Now the only thing that remains is an admission of the IW review being off! It wasn’t fair to take it outside the conext of the first one.

  81. 30/09/2010 at 11:41 Optimaximal says:

    How much does everyone want to be this is simply a hoax ‘leaving’ post, drawn up to get around a restricted budget? All it’s going to do is deprive us of Kieron Gillen for 3-4 days before RPS all appear in a grindhouse-style YouTube video, dressed as components of Horace the Endless Bear, proclaiming we all just ‘didn’t get it’ before revealing a new, refreshed and rejigged Kieron Gillen* for us all to enjoy.

    * – the rejigged Gillen may or may not just be Quintin in a skullcap & comedy glasses.

    Good luck Kieron with your comic books for grown ups. I’ve always liked your work, even though you wrote for that stinking Gamer rag and didn’t put your lot in with the Zone crew.

  82. 30/09/2010 at 11:41 Brumisator says:

    *stands at attention*

    Sir, it’s been an honour reading your prose.
    You will be missed.

  83. 30/09/2010 at 11:41 Jarmo says:

    Thanks for all the journalism! I’ll buy you a round or three should we ever meet.

  84. 30/09/2010 at 11:41 mcw says:

    Best of luck and thanks for creating RPS !!

  85. 30/09/2010 at 11:42 Matthew says:

    Good luck with the exclusivity deal at Marvel, Kieron. You were the first games journo I ever interacted with directly (via email), along with being one of the writers whose work I’ve followed from the 16-bit days.

    I’m glad to hear you’ll still be casting your metaphorical shadow over RPS and look forward to reading more diatribes.

    I know you’ve really made quite a splash in the comics world with Phonogram’s critical success and with the excellent reception to your Thor run, so I have no doubt that you will prod buttock on Uncanny X-Men with Matt Fraction. Who knows, you might even get me back into reading floppies!

    So long, and thanks for all the Los Campesinos.

  86. 30/09/2010 at 11:42 The Tupper says:

    Thanks for the site and all. The best of British to ye.

  87. 30/09/2010 at 11:42 Tusque d'Ivoire says:

    sadface.

    But i like Quinns, and Kieron Gillen’s Workblog is now in my RSS-reader obviously.

  88. 30/09/2010 at 11:44 ClownBaby says:

    Thanks and goodbye then.

    I still remember reading your Deus Ex review in PCG and realising just how much better you were than the reviewers in other mags (and Jim and John and the others too). You always seemed to keep one eye on the big picture of gaming and I always hoped developers were reading your reviews before anyone else’s.

    Good luck

  89. 30/09/2010 at 11:44 Norskov says:

    Best of luck, Kieron. This site has been a part of my daily routine for about 2½ years now, and it will continue to be. I’ve never been very active in the comments, but I’ve enjoyed it nonetheless. You guys have really made something splendid.

    Oh and a welcome to Quinns since it’s official now.

    Here’s hoping you’ll make enough money at Marvel to do a new series of Phonogram

  90. 30/09/2010 at 11:45 Nero says:

    So long Kieron. I have always enjoyed your writing here and having noticed quite a few game from it. Good luck with whatever you do and thanks for your time at RPS. I’m not sure I would even be interested in gaming anymore but from the day I discovered that there was a PC only blog my interest returned. Thank you!

  91. 30/09/2010 at 11:45 Auspex says:

    Cheers KG.

    You were good at this lark.

  92. 30/09/2010 at 11:46 meeper says:

    Thank you, Kieron.

  93. 30/09/2010 at 11:46 Ben says:

    Onwards and upwards, Kieron! Best of luck with Marvel.

  94. 30/09/2010 at 11:48 deejayem says:

    So long, Mr G! I’ve been reading and enjoying your reviews, theorising and bad jokes since your early pony-tailed appearances in PCG, and will be very sorry not to see any more.

    On the other hand – exclusive contract with Marvel? Sheee-it! :) Congratulations, happy birthday, and good luck!

  95. 30/09/2010 at 11:48 SeanybabeS says:

    As Edward R Murrow would say.

    Good night, and good luck.

  96. 30/09/2010 at 11:48 Tony M says:

    Sorry to see you go. You’re the reason I came to RPS.

    Yay to Quinns joining fulltime. For me, the excellent Minecraft series was the moment when Quinns was promoted from “RPS sometimes-contributor” up to full “Optimus thumbs-up hive minder”.

  97. 30/09/2010 at 11:48 Crescend says:

    Really enjoyed reading all of your posts, I’ll be checking your blog every now and then. Best of luck out there!

  98. 30/09/2010 at 11:49 Danny says:

    Enjoy, and thanks for all the Amiga references.

    For what it’s worth, you’re the only games journalist that I can remember by name. I suppose that’s a good thing.

  99. 30/09/2010 at 11:50 ran93r says:

    Bugger, I was 35 fifteen days ago, I should have done something profound instead of going to work.
    All the best fella and if you are not musing on here make sure you carry on twufting.

  100. 30/09/2010 at 11:50 The Sombrero Kid says:

    i think this will work out quite nicely tbh, kierons brilliant but i think he wants/needs to focus more on his comic books & Quinns is on a roll lately!

  101. 30/09/2010 at 11:51 Pobblepop says:

    Thanks for inventing the font ‘Cyrillic Mega-Biff’ many years ago, it still makes me lol when I think about it.

  102. 30/09/2010 at 11:52 Alexander Norris says:

    Happy oldening and good luck on future endeavours, Kieron.

  103. 30/09/2010 at 11:52 Gunnar says:

    Happy birthday and the best of luck for the future, both for you and RPS!

  104. 30/09/2010 at 11:53 Gothnak says:

    Ha… 35? a youngling… i’m 36.. And i’ve been making games for 15 years… I’m thinking of moving into the antiques trade at some point, are you going to become an auctioneer so that we can continue in parallel careers on opposite sides of the divide? :)

  105. 30/09/2010 at 11:54 Reverend Speed says:

    Your articles were thoughtful and articulate, you brought an awareness of broader culture to what is often a very niche corner of a niche hobby – fucking VITAL.

    Haven’t always agreed with you, but have always enjoyed reading your articles. Since Amiga Power. Holy cow.

    All the best, Kieron. RPS is a wonderful magazine indeed – and it will be the same without you. Cheers.

  106. 30/09/2010 at 11:54 mechtroid says:

    Just like you, Kieron, to leave with a Valve reference.

  107. 30/09/2010 at 11:55 markcocjin says:

    Thank you Kieron for all your work. Also for reminding me that I too am at my half-life.

    I saw the article and thought it was something Valve related.

  108. 30/09/2010 at 11:56 m_s0 says:

    Good luck with any kind of future plans.

  109. 30/09/2010 at 11:57 PaulMode7 says:

    Rewind.

    You find yourself in a pub chatting with a games journalist whose writing you’ve loved since you were a teenager. He’s playing a game you made with your best friend from school. He likes it!

    Thanks Kieron – I look forward to all your future cameos.

  110. 30/09/2010 at 11:58 Christian Otholm says:

    I started with your comics and then got into PC gaming again – Thanks for everything. Be Seeing You.

  111. 30/09/2010 at 11:58 MonkeyMonster says:

    Good luck and all the best – been a real pleasure to read your work all these years.

  112. 30/09/2010 at 11:59 Meat Circus says:

    Don’t mention the war.

    Will you and Quinns be filming a regeneration scene?

  113. 30/09/2010 at 11:59 Spliter says:

    Good luck in your future endeavours!
    We’ll miss you (well, not really, since we have Quinns, and you’ll write here from time to time, but the point still stands)!

  114. 30/09/2010 at 12:00 Ian says:

    Cheers Kieron.

    You gave me Blood Bowl. :)

  115. 30/09/2010 at 12:01 Colej_uk says:

    Good luck Kieran, been following your words since your time at PCG.

  116. 30/09/2010 at 12:01 harvb says:

    Laters Kieron, it was fun. All the best.

    H

  117. 30/09/2010 at 12:01 Jonas says:

    Congratulations Quinns! Somebody my age is now on RPS full-time! This shouldn’t matter, but somehow it kind of does! Anyway, fair trade, I’d say, pretty much 1-1 in awesomeness value. May both of you continue to be brilliant.

  119. 30/09/2010 at 12:03 Dataflashsabot says:

    Bye Kieron!

  120. 30/09/2010 at 12:05 tims says:

    Bring back the old Qui-ron! :P

    Damn.
    all the best.

  121. 30/09/2010 at 12:06 jRides says:

    Good luck KG!

  122. 30/09/2010 at 12:06 Stijn says:

    Thank you, Kieron.

  123. 30/09/2010 at 12:07 Severian says:

    Thank you and good luck, Kieron – you’ve helped establish a fantastic site on the interwebs: informative, authentic, and entertaining. Cheers.

  124. 30/09/2010 at 12:09 Dubbill says:

    Good luck, Kieron. I’ll put on some Heavenly for you.

  125. 30/09/2010 at 12:10 BigJonno says:

    Kieron was the first games journalist that made me sit up and think “I really like reading what this guy writes.” He’s certainly responsible for my interest in quality games writing and he helped me get music. I feel somewhat privileged to have enjoyed an informative email conversation with him and I’m really hoping that I can make it along tomorrow night to buy him a rum and coke.

  126. 30/09/2010 at 12:11 sonofsanta says:

    Kieron gone: booooo
    Quinns finally getting that credit line after months of obviousness: yaaaay

    But seeing as Quinns was writing shedloads on here anyway, this still feels like a loss day, so boooo. You were the first games journalist whose voice stood out to me – i.e., I could pick your article out from any others, even without the Kenickie references – and your torch-bearing for the AP spirit has been superb. And the Digitiser spirit, for that matter, god bless Mr Biffo.

    All the best, it really was superb, and I even enjoyed the wanky moments (but don’t read more into that than necessary). Looking forward to seeing more comics after Phonogram, which gets better with every reading.

    (Also, yes, we do still need The Sunday Papers goddammit, otherwise I will have to work on a Monday morning)

  127. 30/09/2010 at 12:14 Centy says:

    On the plus side Quinns is funnier and talks about games :D

  128. 30/09/2010 at 12:14 Unimural says:

    RPS is one of my favourite sites, and I’ve enjoyed your writing style and pieces. Thanks and good luck!

    Loved the Blade Runner references :-)

  129. 30/09/2010 at 12:14 BaronWR says:

    Wow! You must have been doing something right . Pleased to hear that RPS is doing well, but sorry to hear you are defecting to comics. Someone really should bring a cake to the pub tomorrow. And congrats to Quinns.

  130. 30/09/2010 at 12:14 innokenti says:

    Thanks for all the stuff! Jolly good show! Good luck that man.

  131. 30/09/2010 at 12:15 pakoito says:

    Best videogame journalism out there ;)

  132. 30/09/2010 at 12:15 Giant, fussy whingebag says:

    Fare thee well, good sir.

    If your comics continue to be as good as Phonogram (haven’t read your others, yet), I look forward to them. Your writing about games will be missed, but I would rather have more good comics than words about games.

  133. 30/09/2010 at 12:16 Kieron Gillen says:

    The Sunday Papers will continue, under new management.

    KG

  134. 30/09/2010 at 12:16 WarFalci says:

    The hive mind weakens… A sad day indeed!

    May the New Gods bestow upon you the grace of GREAT SUCCESSES or… well, useful failures if anything. ;)

    Oh, wait! The New Gods are DC characters… FAILED.

  135. 30/09/2010 at 12:16 GGX_Justice says:

    :(

    (Although, I am absolutely in love with Quinns, so I suppose it isn’t all bad…)

  136. 30/09/2010 at 12:17 Tangy says:

    Happy birthday Kieron! Thanks for your entertaining, insightful, thought-provoking and just *good* articles over the years. I’m going to have to find another reason to look forward to Sundays now.

  137. 30/09/2010 at 12:17 Easydog says:

    Good Luck and Happy Birthday.

  138. 30/09/2010 at 12:17 Gap Gen says:

    Good luck, and thanks for everything. I learned a lot from your work, about what games writing could be and about what games could be. I probably learned more about writing and interpreting art from PCG and RPS than I did from English lessons, and that’s largely thanks to you. Good luck with your endeavours in improbable-bicep-men-land!

    And yes, if Sunday Papers folds I will be unhappy.

  139. 30/09/2010 at 12:17 Tinus says:

    Thanks for everything Kieron! I’ve been reading your work ever since I could stumble through my first couple of English words, it’s kind of sad to see it come to an end. Best of luck on your new ventures. :)

  140. 30/09/2010 at 12:18 ShaunCG says:

    Kieron is dead. Long live Kieron!

    Quinns is dead. Long live Quinns!

  141. 30/09/2010 at 12:19 MacBeth says:

    I’d venture to say that KG will be irreplaceable despite the assimiliation of the Mighty Quinn(s) into the Hivemind… your unique take on games and the thought-provoking articles on the wider ways of interpreting them will be greatly missed.

    Plus I never liked comics anyway, so I don’t see the plus side there :-(

    Despite that, I wish you luck, and give them hell when Hollywood try to buy up your (comic) stories for a cash-in movie. The tie-in game ought to be good though.

  142. 30/09/2010 at 12:20 Harbour Master says:

    Rutger Hauer still has all that hair, as far as I’m aware. But, you know, he’s filled out a bit.

    Anywho, to Kieron & Quinns: The King is dead, long live the King!

  143. 30/09/2010 at 12:20 Demon Beaver says:

    I will miss your writing here, Kieron! But thank you for all you’ve done, you have given me hours upon hours of good reading!
    Best of luck with your future endeavours! I think I’ll start following Marvel comics soon…

  144. 30/09/2010 at 12:20 Poet says:

    The King is dead. Long live the King!

  145. 30/09/2010 at 12:22 Bobzer says:

    …..OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…….

  146. 30/09/2010 at 12:23 Bozzley says:

    Happy birthday, Kieron, and all the best for all the futures.

  147. 30/09/2010 at 12:23 Grape Flavor says:

    Thanks for everything, Kieron, and best of luck in the future. I haven’t always agreed with some of your analyses but they were all worth reading and made me think. The amount of great journalism you’ve contributed to this site will not soon be forgotten.

    -Grape

  148. 30/09/2010 at 12:23 Tweakd says:

    All the best mate! Followed you from PC Gamer all those years ago when I has a subscription. Sad to see you go but I’m happy to read you will still be gracing the site with your puns every now and then.

    Gl & hf

  149. 30/09/2010 at 12:24 oceanclub says:

    I feel like someone whose parents are getting divorced: mummy, daddy, don’t break up! You can make it work!

    Best of luck to Kieron; I do hope he ends up gracing us occasionally with his now amateur opinions.

    P.

  150. 30/09/2010 at 12:24 Jerricho says:

    Thanks Kieron, for all your great writing and efforts in making something great like RPS. All the best of luck with your new captors at Marvel. May they inspire the most fulfilling dose of stockholm syndrome for you.

  151. 30/09/2010 at 12:27 The Magic says:

    Oh my God, how many comments? It just never ends!… I wish your time here wouldn’t end though.

    Make sure you have clean underwear.

  152. 30/09/2010 at 12:27 Rob says:

    So, when do we get dick pics?

  153. 30/09/2010 at 12:27 Dexton says:

    Love you miss you!

  154. 30/09/2010 at 12:27 Poet says:

    Um, I hate to tell you this Harbour Master but I win because of the 29 minute non Monarch American handicap posting rule.

  155. 30/09/2010 at 12:27 Diabolical Machine says:

    Wow… congrats on the Marvel gig! That’s fucking awesome!

    I admit, I’m one of those people who have been running AdBlocker… and dammit, I love my Internet experience being ad free. You made a good argument… I don’t want to be one of those douchebags who are not supporting RPS cause I am running AdBlocker. Well actually I love this site and it’s in my list of top 10 sites I visit the most. So RPS is now 1 of 3 sites I have whitelisted. Now in return I expect more Minecraft coverage. :P

    • 30/09/2010 at 12:34 MacBeth says:

      @DiabolicalMachine [in case of reply fail]

      …or alternatively subscribe to the site? Or you could subscribe *and* whitelist RPS, but I suspect subscription revenue >>> ads revenue per person, so it seems fair to just subscribe and continue enjoying RPS without ads…

  156. 30/09/2010 at 12:28 Will says:

    I’m always surprised and pleased when people I respect are the same age as me :) Good luck in the new endeavour!

  157. 30/09/2010 at 12:30 RobH says:

    It’s you who caused me to come and join the RPS party in the first place – though I was lamentably late in finding it because I only did so earlier this year. However, while you will definitely and most certainly be missed, I’m very glad that the site is becoming successful, and wish you all the very best with the comic writing.

    Look forward to when you do stop by with a rant. They’re always worth reading. (Goes off to read Planescape: Torment retrospective.)

  158. 30/09/2010 at 12:30 Quirk says:

    You built something special, and you brought a lot of interesting things to my attention, too many to list here. You will be missed, Mr. Gillen.

    I really highly rate Quinns. Journey of Saga is something I consider a high point in games writing. He introduced me to The Void, and his recent Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress diaries have been fantastic. Quality is being maintained, but we’ve had this brief spoiled period of having you both around, and it’s sad to say goodbye to that.

    I’m hoping you’re going to find it hard to quit. If you find yourself playing a game that you feel needs shared with the world, for heaven’s sake don’t resist the urge. Come tell us about it.

  159. 30/09/2010 at 12:31 Muzman says:

    Awww. That’s all I can really say. Hope it all goes well (and hopefully founding member status gets gratuitous pimpage of external works for life. Otherwise it’d probably sail by me). In a year or something you must write a thing about gaming as a not-games-journalist.

  160. 30/09/2010 at 12:31 Poet says:

    I re-read 3 pages of comments just to make sure no one else had said that! I was so damn proud I had beat all the Brits to it to.

  161. 30/09/2010 at 12:32 Heliocentric says:

    Failed Succeeded!

    Don’t be a stranger.

  162. 30/09/2010 at 12:34 Burningpet says:

    Ahhhhhh, noooooo!

    Good luck with marvel, although, i really hoped to see your name on the credits list of a strategy game…

  163. 30/09/2010 at 12:37 J says:

    Sad panda :(((((((((((((((((((((((((

  164. 30/09/2010 at 12:37 Nihilileth says:

    I was at my parents house the other week and decided to read one of my old copies of swedish PCG. In that issue (can’t remember which one, think it was from around 2001-2002) I think Kieron Gillen had 6 previews and 5 reviews translated into the issue. That’s 11 articles for a single issue. To say that KG hasn’t coloured my purchases for well over a decade would be the understatement of the century.

    Good luck in your future endeavours. And happy birthday.

  165. 30/09/2010 at 12:38 Oozo says:

    Oh, gosh, why did comic writing have to become an actual job that pays rents?!

    It’s weird how attached you can get to somebody you’ve never met, on the power of his writing alone.

    Even though I certainly can’t say anything that wasn’t said yet, I happily add my voice to the choir, in order just to let you give an impression of how many people will miss you (and maybe a tiny idea of how MUCH you’ll be missed, too).

    I was late to the party, only discovered this site about 2 years ago – but the impact it had on my thinking about games and writing in general is tremendous (your pieces on journalism taught me a lot for sure). RPS, and specifically the high stakes you set here, also made me think of how far a way to go a lot of people in this field still have – and how good it eventually could get.

    I’ve been following your work-blog and your comic career for a while, so you won’t be completely gone – still, thanks for all. You enriched my life, and I’m not ashamed to admit so.

  166. 30/09/2010 at 12:38 nabeel says:

    Sad news, you will be sorely missed. I wish you the best of luck in your other endeavours, but it will always be your games writing that I will keep an eye out for and will eagerly read. You have informed, entertained and inspired me and for that I thank you.

    All the best to Quinns, you’re a great addition to the RPS team.

  167. 30/09/2010 at 12:40 Urael says:

    This is one of those special occassions when, despite every conceivable sentiment having been expressed in the thread already, it’s how YOU say the words that really matters. This is fitting, as that’s the very definition of your work, too, isn’t it?

    I’ve been an enormous fan of yours ever since your seminal Thief articles; “the gynaphobic descent into the Maw” is a line that will stay with me until my deathbed, I’m sure. You’ve been worth following ever since then and continue to impress, inform, entertain or provoke critical thinking in just about every sentence that flows from your very talented non-hive-mind. Your recent-ish issue of New Universal, where you got to coldly murder the man who would become Iron Man, was an absolutely blistering read, seemingly outdoing the mighty Ellis at his own game, in his own rebooted universe! (PS: An Issue of PCG claimed you wanted to kiss Ellis, your idol, on the lips. Did this ever happen??) Your later work on S.W.O.R.D was equally fabulous, where you not only got to play with some of Whedon’s best creations (and Beast!) but were lucky enough to resurrect the mighty Death’s Head, a character very dear to my heart from the old UK Transformers comics.

    I’m 35 too, by the way. Welcome to the club.

    In short, you’ve been an inspiration. To gaming/games journalism generally AND to me personally. I can’t follow your passion for music but try and read every word you put down. Good luck with Marvel. Happy Birthday, and all the best for the future.

  168. 30/09/2010 at 12:41 Vadermath says:

    Awwww! You’ll be sorely missed, of course. It’s been an awesome two years, and good luck in your future endeavors.

    I guess we’ll have to bother Quinns about writing the Papers now, eh?

  169. 30/09/2010 at 12:41 Sarble says:

    Happy Birthday!

  170. 30/09/2010 at 12:44 mrpier says:

    Best of luck to you.

  171. 30/09/2010 at 12:44 tigershuffle says:

    Damn it to hell KG………was hoping to read your thoughts on Duke Nuke ‘em Forever

    thanks for all ramblings n stuff over the years

    *cough* as an older gamer …..who bought his Speccie48k with my paperround money and read Crash….and then moved to a C64 and then Amiga before settling on PC gaming when Half Life was first released :) (ill deny ever owning a Megadrive unless you have the negatives) Id like to say thanks for giving me somethin to read back in the day and now on RPS since weve been allowed access to the interweb at work

  172. 30/09/2010 at 12:44 Man Raised By Puffins says:

    Bon voyage Kierian!

    Welcome aboard Quentinn!

    • 30/09/2010 at 12:55 Man Raised By Puffins says:

      As an aside, it’s highly pleasing to see this comment thread exploding faster than a DRM/piracy drama fest.

      Also, this (suprisingly, suitable Kieron Gillen action montages are a rare sight on youtube).

  173. 30/09/2010 at 12:44 Legionary says:

    Thus passes the greatest games journalist of all time. Thanks for everything Kieron, your writing has been inspirational to me. Best of luck with your new fangled Marvel deal.

    Thanks.

  174. 30/09/2010 at 12:46 Kitt says:

    Kieron, just wanted to say thank you for all the work you’ve put in at RPS over the years.

    You’ve often been a source of inspiration for my own musings and I’ve just had my first major editorial piece green-lighted for a print magazine.

    I feel like I’m on the precipice of being able to do something I’ve always wanted to, although I know it’s going to be a tough road.

    The fact is, without people like yourself and the luminaries of gaming journalism that I grew up reading, this drive would never have been so strong within me. So, I guess, one last time: Thanks man.

    Have a great birthday and success in all your future endeavours,
    - Matt

  175. 30/09/2010 at 12:47 Don says:

    @kieron: Assuming you aren’t running adblock, just by doing so you’re helping to pay for us to make the site better.

    Actually I was running adblock+ on this machine yet the Eurogamer ads still appeared. Perhaps they are deemed to be sufficiently well behaved that they stay off the block list. If so, good, I don’t mind ads that aren’t a pain or websites making a penny that way, it’s the ones that decide to play animations over the story I’m trying to read that I consign to the bottomless pit.

    Anyway have fun in your future doings and thanks for all the good stuff you’ve done here.

  176. 30/09/2010 at 12:47 JB says:

    Kieron,

    To echo the many (many, many, many) posters before me, I’ll certainly miss you. I used to enjoy your stuff when I was reading one of those old-stle paper publications – whatd’yacallem? Magazines?. And I’ve certainly enjoyed your stuff on RPS in the….2 years or so(?) I’ve been reading it. That said, I’m very glad you’ll still be hovering in the background and posting stuff occasionally still. Wish I could be there to help obliterate your liver tomorrow night, have a great time!

    Take away point 1: We’ll miss you Kieron, and good luck with your future endeavours!

    Take away point 2: Welcome to RPS full-timeosity Quinns. Fuck, yeah!!!

  177. 30/09/2010 at 12:48 BigglesB says:

    Games 0 – Comics 100

  178. 30/09/2010 at 12:48 Wilson says:

    Thanks and good luck with the future!

  179. 30/09/2010 at 12:49 Kommissar Nicko says:

    Your excellent writing is what brought me to the site a few years ago (one year, two, maybe three? I can’t remember), and it’ll be a shame to see you go. But at the same time, Quinns is pretty hot, so he’ll make us feel better.

    Good luck Kieron!

  180. 30/09/2010 at 12:49 Carolina says:

    So long, Mr. Gillen. Your input will be sorely missed for me, as I’m quite cynical about the current state of gaming journalism. In fact, RPS is the only PC gaming website I still care about, even if I disagree with you guys sometimes —not yet with Quinns, though—.

    I’m looking forward to read whatever you will have to say at some point in the future. Without the pressure of actually having to write it, I’m sure it will be even more meaningful and interesting than your already high-quality articles.

    And good luck in the comics world! I hope you get the opportunity to publish your own creations someday, as I found Phonogram infinitely more interesting than Uncanny X-Men.

  181. 30/09/2010 at 12:49 Tiktaalik says:

    :( Good luck with the comics!

  182. 30/09/2010 at 12:51 Clockwork Peanut says:

    Will miss you kieron, been reading your games stuff for what seems like ages (ten years wtf?), also gotten into comics thanks to phonogram, which like every other word you write, is AWESOME.

    best of luck

  183. 30/09/2010 at 12:51 joe balls says:

    Well done old bean. Jolly well done. I’ve read your words since there were floppy disks on the cover of PCG and always been entertained. DO YOU NOT ENTERTAIN US? Yes, I think you do. Much love for now and the future.

  184. 30/09/2010 at 12:51 fiezi says:

    I started reading RPS in early 2008 and ever since put this website on the “required reading” list for my students at university. I never commented once. This and a general lack of sleep pushed me over the edge, so here we go:
    Thank you Kieron, for your wonderful insights, broad perspective, the sunday papers and articles that I can point to whenever my wife talks about how I waste my time with this “computer games stuff”!

  185. 30/09/2010 at 12:52 sirdorius says:

    You will be missed Kieron. Good luck at your new job!

  186. 30/09/2010 at 12:52 coldwave says:

    Happy birthday and good luck.

  187. 30/09/2010 at 12:53 AbyssUK says:

    “you want to quit?
    then, thou hast lost an eighth!”

  188. 30/09/2010 at 12:54 Alexej says:

    awww. Hope to still see from time to time one of your posts. Good luck and best wishes.

  189. 30/09/2010 at 12:55 Chris says:

    And to that:
    ………………………………………….ooooooooooooooooooooo

  190. 30/09/2010 at 12:56 FP says:

    Been a fan of your writing since PCG, good luck with your comics work.

  191. 30/09/2010 at 12:56 Tei says:

    :-o

    I have always seen Kieron as somewhat like a King, … the type of king that generate majesty, and wen talk. He don’t need to be loud, is not how loud is his voice, is what he say. He emite this majesty.

    He will be missed.

    o7

  192. 30/09/2010 at 12:57 Malcolm says:

    So long, and thanks for all the words.

    (Yes, entirely unoriginal I’m sure – but I know my limits)

  193. 30/09/2010 at 12:57 Lobotomist says:

    Good luck Kieron. You surely helped make this site the best gaming blog on the interwebz

  194. 30/09/2010 at 12:58 the_fanciest_of_pants says:

    Been a pleasure reading your work here and elsewhere Kieron. Looking forward to reading whatever you contribute in the future too, do hope the Sunday Papers sticks around, it’s one of the highlights of my week.

    Good luck with all you do bro.

    ………..
    ……………….__
    …………./´¯/‘…’/´¯¯`·¸
    ………./‘/…/…./……./¨¯\
    ……..(’(…´…´…. ¯~/‘…’)
    ………\……………..‘…../
    ……….’’…\………. _.·´
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    BRO FIST

  195. 30/09/2010 at 13:02 DMcCool says:

    Fuck, wow, bye Kieron. I don’t know what to say. You’ve been a hero.

    Guess we are getting drunk tomorrow then?

  197. 30/09/2010 at 13:04 SpinalJack says:

    Noooo you were my favourite writer on PC Gamer

  198. 30/09/2010 at 13:05 Navagon says:

    I wish you luck at Marvel and I hope your presence here isn’t too drastically reduced (although it probably will be for the next few months at least). I look forward to the occasional obscure indie game article in future.

  199. 30/09/2010 at 13:05 Dan(WR) says:

    I would eulogise on what an enormous fan I am of your writing, but you’re not dead yet and I fully intend to be buying your comics and stalking your work for years to come. I just wish there were more games journos who would use the phrase ‘weaponized bukkake’ in a review. ;)

    Happy Birthday!

  200. 30/09/2010 at 13:05 golden_worm says:

    Bye Bye Kieron, I will *abstractly* miss you.

  201. 30/09/2010 at 13:06 Land says:

    I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

    Take care.

  202. 30/09/2010 at 13:07 Ricc says:

    Thank you for making RPS into what it is today. You will be sorely missed. The Sunday Papers are infinitely valuable.

    Time to shine, Quinns.

  203. 30/09/2010 at 13:08 Alex Bakke says:

    I remember seeing you in the PS1 mag’s journo gallery, and feeling all proud when I graduated to PC Gamer and noticed you. I was at home.

    <3

  204. 30/09/2010 at 13:08 Vanderdecken says:

    Hmm, Rutger Hauer.

    Oh, and nooooooooooo! Thanks for all the fish Kieron.

  205. 30/09/2010 at 13:08 Hazza says:

    Bon voyage! And, best of luck in your future endeavours.

  206. 30/09/2010 at 13:09 Diziet says:

    You’ll be missed. On the plus side if you post occasionally they’ll be special treats and no doubt quite epic screeds about gaming. Having just bought Phonogram on comixology I’m really looking forward to more of your output in that medium. I’ll be keeping my eye out for it. Good luck!

  207. 30/09/2010 at 13:10 chokoladenudlen says:

    Losing KG is a formidable loss, but gaining Quinns for full-time is an awesome way to console us! Best of luck to the both of you with your new endeavour and positions. All you RPS guys are bat-shit crazy awesome and the reason I started being interested in who wrote the various gaming-related articles, seeing as how the quality of your work usually eclipses that of other sites.

    Long live Rock,Paper, Shotgun! :)

  208. 30/09/2010 at 13:11 The Hammer says:

    Stay vigilant, Kieron, you curious son of a gun.

  209. 30/09/2010 at 13:13 KingCathcart says:

    Back in 2001 I started university in Bath and started reading PC Gamer (use to be a Zone man but until Future bought Zone it was rarer than pickled marmosets in Bath). From the off Kieron’s writing stood out. There was clearly something special about his words and when I would occasionally spot him lording it about Moles nightclub there was an unmistakable air around him that you sometimes sense in the truly gifted.

    Fast forward 8 years and I finally stumbled onto RPS. John, Jim and Alec are all writers I know and love but I guess Kieron has always been the charismatic front man of the team. Since that day RPS has become my favourite gaming blog and not only gives me great pleasure but also finally gave me the kick up the bum to try a bit of games writing myself.

    I’ll miss you Kieron. Comics gain is games Journalisms loss.

    That said, glad to finally have Quinns officially onboard – the hole Kieron leaves is big but I’m confidant Quinns can fill it with his own unique style.

    John, Jim and Alec – look forward to the continuation of you excellent work and hopefully will see all of you tomorrow.

  210. 30/09/2010 at 13:16 randomnine says:

    Damn it, Kieron. You’ve been my favourite games journalist these past seven or eight years and it’s a shame to see you go.

    I understand wanting to move on and having to leave behind people who care. Good luck with the comics, and here’s to an unlikely future where everyone doing anything games-related professionally can be proud and well compensated.

  211. 30/09/2010 at 13:19 Fomorian says:

    For two years, I had the unspoken pleasure of reading one of Internet’s best game journalists (the others being John, Jim, Alec and, more recently in comparison, Quinns) on the greatest PC gaming’s site, which made me more a gamer I am, got me into indie gaming and taught of better game journalism than I had experienced before. Thanks for the memory, Kieron. Thanks for the great articles.

    And looking forward to more Quinns.

  212. 30/09/2010 at 13:22 Eamo says:

    Thank you Mr. Gillen. You write about being a gamer as opposed to so many who are just there to describe games. You let me know that playing games is every bit as important as I always felt – nay hoped – it was. It is odd but as a man of almost your own age I was always secretly ashamed of my love for games. It felt like a dirty shameful thing. Through your writings here and those others on this site I now feel proud of my gaming. Instead of making some lame excuse over why I am busy of an evening I can now proclaim loudly “I am raiding, sorry” and oddly people respect me all the more for it.

    I wish you all the best in your new endeavours, I am sure with the same passion and spirit as you have brought to this site your success is assured. Good luck and thank you.

  213. 30/09/2010 at 13:22 tapanister says:

    Kieron, while I’ll never forgive you for telling us that John Romero was not a rockstar game developer back in Animex 2004 (or 2005, who can remember), I’ve always enjoyed RPS and it has almost redeemed you for that indiscretion.

    You’re alright. Good luck with the comics thing!

  214. 30/09/2010 at 13:23 Frozenbyte says:

    Godspeed, you magnificent bastard.

  215. 30/09/2010 at 13:24 VelvetFistIronGlove says:

    Vale, Kieron! You must be proud of the monster that your hivemind-lovechild has become.

  216. 30/09/2010 at 13:24 David says:

    Maybe some of his ieron?

  217. 30/09/2010 at 13:25 Mattress says:

    Kieron,
    I was an avid PC Gamer reader between 2000-2005ish, when you were a staff writer/deputy editor/frequent freelancer. Back in 2007, it was great to see the group of writers who I had so enjoyed reading from that period of the magazine, set up a website like RockPaperShotgun. It’s been an absolute joy to read your intelligent and insightful commentary on this slowly maturing medium for the last ten years.
    Hope you have every success with Marvel, but that you also find the spare time to indulge the pursuit of a hobbyist videogames writer, as you will be sorely missed.

  218. 30/09/2010 at 13:25 Haplo says:

    I knew the moment that new Doctor Who series came up he’d leave us for showbiz ._.

    But no, really, goodbye, Kieron.

    Goodbye my dear~
    Although you are far away you’ll always be near~
    For here in RPS there’s always a little bit~
    of that witty git~
    For us to hear~
    We’ll remember you~
    For the writing you do~
    Unlike this poem~
    Which is pretty awful really~

    Good luck in the future! I hope it goes well.

  219. 30/09/2010 at 13:26 Unaco says:

    I’ll probably miss some of your puns, and the occasional musical allusion in your headlines. I bid you a fond adieu.

  220. 30/09/2010 at 13:27 jaheira says:

    Goodbye Kieron. Come back often.
    :(

  221. 30/09/2010 at 13:27 Nallen says:

    Hey! other RPSers, obviously you all know Kieron personally and have known his opinions on this subject for some time, but how do you feel about him calling games journalism ‘pissing away talent’ and ‘wasting years of your life’?

  222. 30/09/2010 at 13:27 David says:

    Oh. Of course my first comment here would be a reply fail. 4 pages from where I intended it.

  223. 30/09/2010 at 13:28 Ben says:

    Reading your games coverage has really helped me think more deeply about games and helped me think how to be better at writing about them. It is a terrible thing that we wait to say stuff like this until a person leaves but I guess it sometimes takes that to elicit it. Well, this is going in a depressing direction.

    You werk gud. Thank you. That’s better.

    And it is wonderful that Quinns will be full time on RPS. The Journey of Saga stories have been my favorite pieces of games writing this year. Hopefully this won’t change the release of those, though.

  224. 30/09/2010 at 13:28 mickiscoole says:

    5 pages of comments and not a single “what a shame” comment.

    What a shame.

    Also, sad to see Kieron go. His Deus Ex review alone made me buy the game.

  225. 30/09/2010 at 13:29 Drexer says:

    God damnit Kieron. God damnit.

    This now made it all so much more symbolic that I still haven’t gone through to reading last week’s Sunday Papers.

    What’s gonna happen to the Sunday Paper now?

    Happy to know you’re still gonna rant though. We need you Kieron.

  226. 30/09/2010 at 13:30 skinlo says:

    Take care!

  227. 30/09/2010 at 13:32 Vitamin Powered says:

    I already said so on twitter, but I’ll say it again. Happy birthday dude, and you’ll be missed.

    Catch you around, man. Your stay here has been amazing and inspirational.

  228. 30/09/2010 at 13:32 EaterOfCheese says:

    boycott

  229. 30/09/2010 at 13:34 espy says:

    All the best, Kieron, and thanks for some great reads!

  230. 30/09/2010 at 13:38 Atrocious says:

    Godspeed!

  231. 30/09/2010 at 13:43 mihor_fego says:

    Happy birthday and have a bright future in Marvel, Kieron! As many have said you’ll be missed and remembered.

    I didn’t have the chance to follow your writing from the beginning, since I discovered rps 2 years ago. I never really felt like it was anything but a hivemind behind this site, as I found most articles ranging from interesting to brilliant no matter the writer.
    What made the difference, though, was Sunday Papers and the music references!

    As for Quinns, it was about time to be acknowledged as a full member of the hivemind. I don’t think anyone views him as a replacement anyway; he’s been writing some of the best stuff here over the last month.

  232. 30/09/2010 at 13:44 Debaser says:

    Sucks you’re leaving, but the best of luck to you, mate.

  233. 30/09/2010 at 13:45 Himself says:

    Best of luck!

  234. 30/09/2010 at 13:46 Chris D says:

    Later we will learn
    Change is needed, even good
    But today is “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

  235. 30/09/2010 at 13:46 Andrew Farrell says:

    Can I be the first to say – you bastard, you’re younger than me?

    Also happy birthday, also see you in the funny pages.

  236. 30/09/2010 at 13:47 T says:

    when io saw the picture thought a Bladerruner game was coming!

    Time to die

    one of the greatest “The End” of all times… and a perfect match for K. words. nice piece

  237. 30/09/2010 at 13:47 Haywire says:

    Although I didn’t always agree with what you said Kieron, I always appreciated that it was well thought out, challenged my gravelly preconceptions and was masterfully communicated. I always especially appreciated the journalistic ripples you created on other sites, all the way to my third favourite site at the moment – escapist magazine (For the record giantbomb.com is the first for their humour, variety and truly special commentary, then yours (or should i say theirs) for the intelligent and honest pc content).

    Forced nested brackets

  238. 30/09/2010 at 13:47 Diogo Ribeiro says:

    First of all, happy b-day, Kieron.

    Second… In a way, I could see this coming. In another way, I couldn’t.

    Whatever the case, one of the main reasons that got me interested in games journalism was Kieron. That and the games, but on my way to the second year in the field, the games are almost a minor part. They’re important even when the pay is lousy, they’re important even when you feel no one else sees the medium as you do, they’re important even when the larger parts of the industry, of gaming communities and journos don’t even get games atl, happy to say they’re good because they’re movie-like. Fuck those tools.

    Thinking more about it, it was probably british gaming journalism that kick started my desire, with the likes of Kieron, Campbell and J. Nash. It was totally far out. You don’t get that kind of gaming journalism in Portugal, on mostly anywhere else, where it’s just a bunch of typing robots and reading robots. It’s largely boring, dry, unwilling to engage the audience who is also unwilling to think outside marketing and bullet point features in the back of a box. For some reason, the more I got to know their work, the more I found myself thinking about doing the same. Of course, it was never a question of being at their level – I’m sure some fleeting arrogance might have tried to convince me of that, but it didn’t work. It wasn’t about being a copycat, it was about carrying the same spirit.

    Kieron leaving RPS and gaming journalism in general is a blow, but it’s also not a doomsday device. His body of work still remains a reference (probably much like Amiga Power still remains a reference to him), and his influence is also seen on this generation of writers. For that undeniable reach, for the way he influenced many (including me), he’ll always have my gratitude (a trivial thing to him, perhaps, but important to me). For what it’s worth, I won’t let the influence die on me.

    Farewell Kieron, it feels like even after everything you gave us I hardly knew you.

    (The only thing that’s bugging me is, well, I stopped reading comics a long time ago and don’t see myself returning to them to catch up on his work, but I’m hoping he’ll pop up every now and then and talk shop about games).

  239. 30/09/2010 at 13:48 Durkonkell says:

    Ack! Nooooooo!

    I’m really pleased to hear about your exclusive contract to put words and pictures in sequential order, it sounds like a magnificent opportunity for you. I am equally-and-oppositely (uh…) disappointed that we’ll no longer get to read your games-thinks here at RPS.

    I shall now go and purchase Planescape: Torment in your honour.

    Good luck and fair weather!

  240. 30/09/2010 at 13:49 Ben says:

    Thanks Kieron. Happy birthday and good luck.

  241. 30/09/2010 at 13:50 DMJ says:

    Farewell KG.

    I lit a candle for you. I put it in the window. The curtains caught fire and my house burnt down.

    KG, you owe me a new house.

  242. 30/09/2010 at 13:51 Hippo says:

    Sad to hear this. You’ve been important not only for the games press, but for the industry itself. The games industry is full of shitty people, shitty companies and shitty games, and you’ve been good at finding & highlighting the exceptions. It’ll be tougher to be an indie when you’re not around. There are others like you, of course, but they’re not exactly plentiful. Except perhaps on RPS.

  243. 30/09/2010 at 13:52 Derek Smart says:

    Wait! Wot! He’s leaving…but yet he’s still the Director?

    Don’t fall for this ploy folks!! I think they’re trying to pull a GoG!!

  244. 30/09/2010 at 13:53 Hedge says:

    Wear sunscreen.

  245. 30/09/2010 at 13:53 zak canard says:

    All the best for the future Kieron, and if that new fangled “offline webcomics” thing doesn’t take off we will welcome you back with open arms. There’s also the option of doing TV and getting hitched to a Blue Peter presenter. I hear that’s been a pretty successful move for some.

  246. 30/09/2010 at 13:55 tomwaitsfornoman says:

    Sandman, anyone?

    Anyone?

  247. 30/09/2010 at 13:57 Wulf says:

    Ahahhahahaha… hahaha… wait, it’s not April 1st.

    …

    Shit.

    Be excellent out there, Kieron. I expect to hear of your vast success in the field of comics (specifically Marvel), or I will be most disappointed.

  248. 30/09/2010 at 13:58 GHudston says:

    Well, that’s a bit of a blow. I’m never any good with this sort of thing, but I’ll greatly miss reading your articles here. Best of luck in whatever you do and don’t be a stranger!

    Also, long live Iron Quinns!

  249. 30/09/2010 at 13:59 airtekh says:

    Well fuck it anyway. Totally didn’t see this coming.

    Good luck man.

    I still have my copy of PCG with the Deus Ex review in it, buried in dust in the recesses of the attic.

    It was the first review where I actually bothered to check the name of the person who wrote it; because it was brilliant.

    Games journalism’s loss will be comic books’ gain.

    o7

  250. 30/09/2010 at 13:59 Berzee says:

    I thought this was going to be about Half-Life, but this is okay too. =P

    Glad you are not 100%-leaving-leaving-never-see-Kieron-again. Keep your chin up and your eyes trim!

  251. 30/09/2010 at 14:02 Pijama says:

    Kieron, you magnificent bastard, thank you for some of the best writing I have ever seen in this beloved medium and good luck in whatever endeavours you might take. =D

    BUT THIS NEEDS MORE EPIC:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDoT1TXV3k

    Tennyson’s “Ulysses” performed by John Gielgud. With your soul now empowered by epic Victorian poetry, I say: GO FORTH AND GODSPEED!

  252. 30/09/2010 at 14:03 icupnimpn2 says:

    The succession is not yet complete. The time to strike is now, my brothers. Quinns is weak – drunk with his new powers and status, not realizing that our loyalty is to his station and not to his name. We must rise up, tear him from the fourth throne, and place our own man there. Gillen thinks he can abdicate and still hold sway, but he now worships the paper gods. His attention is elsewhere.

    • 30/09/2010 at 14:53 Man Raised By Puffins says:

      and at last the rightful Lord shall sit on the dread throne, whose blood chilling name will resound from the high black mesas to the deepest fortress of the dwarven folk, and they shall call him… Tim.

  253. 30/09/2010 at 14:03 SheffieldSteel says:

    Best of luck KG.
    I will miss     (the opportunity to make jokes about Karen Gillan and)
    you .

    You listening, pig?

  254. 30/09/2010 at 14:04 Robert says:

    Thanks Kieron, for all the inspiration and frankly amazing writing. You were the first games journalist that showed me that quality writing exists in the field. (non-anglophone nativity). You even rekindled my love for comics. Thanks for the incredible and/or shitty music you’ve linked. I will be awaiting your music blog. ;-)

    This is a dark day for ‘New Games Journalism’. I wish you luck in your comics endeavors. (and life)

  255. 30/09/2010 at 14:05 theleif says:

    “Giving all the love I feel for you
    Couldn’t make you change your point of view
    You’re leavin’
    Now I’m sittin’ here, I’m wastin’ my time
    I just don’t know what I should do

    It’s a tragedy for me
    To see the dream is over
    And I never will forget the day we met
    Girl I’m gonna miss you”

    -Milli Vanilli

    On a serious note, when will your duet with Quinns be released? I can’t wait to hear you two singing “Hello Goodbye”

  256. 30/09/2010 at 14:06 Duffin says:

    Best of luck for the future Kieron, and thanks for helping make RPS what it is today, we are all indebted to you.

  257. 30/09/2010 at 14:08 perfectheat says:

    Thanks man for everything! Going to miss you in the podcasts too! By the way: You guys should do more of those! Even if it’s sometime over Skype.

    I had also no idea you guys were running advertising as I have been running Adblock for so long I forget. Is there a way one could donate and by doing so not feel to guilty for blocking?

    • 30/09/2010 at 14:13 Wulf says:

      Subscribe, it’s what I do. That way, you can help pay a little toward their site upkeep (more than viewing their ads would bring in) and block those atrocious, site-design killing, rogue process-carrying things. (The latter being added after The Elder Scrolls Nexus, a site I’d always considered trustworthy, ended up becoming a trojan provider thanks to ads, enough to be considered a malicious site by Google.)

      Really, anyone who reads regularly should subscribe so long as they have a job or some means of income, it’s a pittance.

  258. 30/09/2010 at 14:12 Kazz says:

    Thanks for all the years of great writing, we’ll miss ya! :)

  260. 30/09/2010 at 14:17 Tater Po says:

    All the best Kieron! Good luck wherever life takes you! It’s been a joy reading your articles.

    Tater Po

  261. 30/09/2010 at 14:19 JustOneWay says:

    This feels like the passing of one of the greats. I have enjoyed your writing so much. I am truly sorry to see you go.

    Still, I supose there are the comics to enjoy. I hope that one day Phonogram will return and you get the chance to write that Emily Aster story you once told me about.

    Your light has burned very bright indeed.

  262. 30/09/2010 at 14:20 JackShandy says:

    Keiron, you’re basically my hero. Good luck.

    And good luck to you, Quinns! Judging by Journey of Saga, you won’t have any trouble filling the shoes.

  263. 30/09/2010 at 14:24 Pinky G says:

    Good luck

  264. 30/09/2010 at 14:24 Bassism says:

    Kieron, it’ll be strange no longer having you around all the time. But it might just make it all the sweeter when you do pop up.

    I wish you the best with Marvel. It’s a pretty sweet gig, and if anything can follow up RPS, that would be it.

    And thank you for having a hand in shaping RPS. I’ve been reading the site for nearly two years now, and it’s really something special. I know you don’t need anybody to tell you this, but this is a really great thing you chaps have done here.

    I’m going to make sure to follow your words around regardless.

  265. 30/09/2010 at 14:25 Sinomatic says:

    Am I the only one who read “Time to die” and instantly thought of the paladin in diablo II…..? (I really must get out more).

    Anyway…

    Shall be sorry to see your regular gaming contributions coming to an end. I, like some of the others here have been a reader and fan for quite some time (and I still have at least 5 big snogs I’ve been saving up for you since that brilliant Deus Ex review), but I refuse to say goodbye….

    I’m too busy looking forward to you breaking down and pouring ranty goodness onto these here pages when you just can’t help yourself.

    I might actually think about buying a comic though.

    Maybe.

  266. 30/09/2010 at 14:27 Kadayi says:

    All the best Duffer. Despite the vehement disagreements on many things game related over the years, if I didn’t place a value your opinions I wouldn’t be here.

    Still one does wonder does this signal an end to The Sunday Papers? *sad face*

  267. 30/09/2010 at 14:31 Hobbes says:

    Happy birthday and good luck for the future, mister. You’ll be greatly missed (until you come back, natch)!

    Congratulations Quinns!

  268. 30/09/2010 at 14:31 Lukasz says:

    aww bollocks!

  269. 30/09/2010 at 14:33 laikapants says:

    I’m oh so glad you put those sections in the order you did. It quickly put my saddened mind at ease. Best of luck and thing stuffs! I might even have to buy my first Marvel comic book, but I’ll definitely finally okay fine whatever have to subscribe to RPS (even if I do it the way in which isn’t subscribing, ie lump sum).

    Now don’t mind me, the ceiling is just a bit leaky.

  270. 30/09/2010 at 14:36 Cyrenic says:

    So long and thanks for all the puns.

    Good luck with Marvel and any other endeavors.

  271. 30/09/2010 at 14:38 Urthman says:

    I have a hard time getting too upset at this, Kieron, given how fantastic your work at Marvel has been. I’m really looking forward to more great comics from you.

    And I can be nothing but grateful for your role in establishing the best gaming site on the net. Thank you.

    But I will definitely miss your games writing and reviews. And the Sunday Papers. And your voice on the podcast. I hope you play lots and lots of rant-inspiring games!

    Quinns is a fantastic addition to RPS, regardless of whether Kieron is leaving or not.

  272. 30/09/2010 at 14:41 EthZee says:

    You did good, Kieron. Real good.

    *sigh*

    Anyway. The King Is Dead! Long Live The Quinns!

  273. 30/09/2010 at 14:44 somnolentsurfer says:

    A sad day indeed. Not just that you’re leaving here, but an exclusive contract at Marvel presumably means more Phonogram is positively out of the question. And I got so excited when you tweeted yesterday about The Singles Club being in profit…

    But good luck. I guess I might have to try reading some of that dull looking superhero stuff.

    • 30/09/2010 at 15:07 Dean says:

      I think most exclusive comics contracts still allow indie stuff no? Plus if he breaks through in a big way with Uncanny there’s always Epic…

    • 01/10/2010 at 13:14 Kieron Gillen says:

      Exclusives have exceptions for other stuff you can do in comics. But the problem with more Phonogram is a little more complicated than that, really.

      There will totally be more indie stuff from me.

      KG

  274. 30/09/2010 at 14:44 Allandaros says:

    Kieron, thank you so much for the stellar game journalism that you’ve done.

    I’ve only been following RPS for a short time, so I haven’t seen too much of your work, unfortunately – but this site made me realize that reporting on games didn’t have to suck abysmally, that it could be well-written, cogent, entertaining, and very, very worthwhile.

    Thank you.

  275. 30/09/2010 at 14:45 TooNu says:

    Good Luck and thanks for your games writing Kieron, go go deus-ex review:

    !http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?page_id=16

    On a side note you share your birthday with my missus who is not 35 but is now 26, which also adds up to 8, all we need is one more 8 and the world gonna frikkin end.
    TooNu

  276. 30/09/2010 at 14:47 James Tao says:

    Well… huh. What a shame.

    I’ve been reading your work here at RPS since the site’s early days, Kieron, and over the years since it’s continually pushed me to put a little more critical thought into the way I look at the games I play and the industry they dwell within. Thanks for all your fine work in games journalism, and all the best from here on out.

    As a fond farewell and a show of (possibly little) respect, there’s this:

    http://imgur.com/Sc8Qw.png

  277. 30/09/2010 at 14:48 Pax says:

    You can go… for now. But I expect a special Kieron report once Deus Ex: Human Revolution comes out!

  278. 30/09/2010 at 14:48 Cat says:

    Good look for the future Kieron, please ask the guys to give us a heads up on any comic work you’re allowed to show the public.

    So a cerebrate is seperating from the Overmind? But a new cerebrate has been introduced so a evil Kerrigan doesn’t come along and take over the Swarm.

    Also well played MinecraftMan, made me laugh for a while!

  279. 30/09/2010 at 14:49 Graeme Strachan says:

    “Followed by the final gynophobal descent into the maw.” Thief 2: The Metal Age review

    My favourite Gillenism of all time.
    Anyone else got any gems they’d like to share?

  280. 30/09/2010 at 14:52 freepower says:

    Keeps it real, you’ve always been a little bit my hero, Kieron. :’)

  281. 30/09/2010 at 14:53 Jog says:

    Best wishes to you and your future journeys. Thank you for all news, entertainment and laughs over these years on RPS.

  282. 30/09/2010 at 14:53 nickylee says:

    *sigh* From C-Monster to now I’ve been reading you, man. Good bye and good luck. :)

  283. 30/09/2010 at 14:53 Lanster27 says:

    Fuck you Quinn.

    Just kidding.

  284. 30/09/2010 at 14:55 Soundofvictory says:

    For the last three years, RPS has been the single gaming website that I check daily. The reason is mostly because of ALL the awesome writers (including all the wonderful part-time contributors), and the quick-witted and intelligently written comments. Kieron, I know that RPS will go on without you, but you were an integral quarter (fifth? sixth?) of the hivemind, and it will not be quite the same.

    May Horace the endless watch over you in all your future endeavors. May he also maul every single one of your future oppressors.

    Good luck, and you will be missed.

  285. 30/09/2010 at 14:59 DXN says:

    Kieron is the new Quinns, Quinns is the new Kieron, money is the new power, sugar is the new money, indie is the new pro, pc is the new console, Muse are the new Queen (failed). We’ll miss you, Kieron. But you will continue to live on. In our crotches. And most importantly, in our brains. Our horrible, electronic brains. Good on ya.

  286. 30/09/2010 at 15:00 VexingVision says:

    I thank you for all your effort to single-handedly promote the growing Indie gaming scene. Also, much love for being a bastion of PC gaming in a country where I couldn’t even get the PC version for Transformers in a shop on launch day…

  287. 30/09/2010 at 15:01 vanarbulax says:

    Sad to see you leave, opinion on equestrian matters aside.

    Thank you so much for helping making RPS the absolutely wonderful thing it is today.

    All the best!

  288. 30/09/2010 at 15:03 Markoff Chaney says:

    Fare thee well, Good Sir. It was a pleasure and an honour. Thank You. :)

    Take Care

  289. 30/09/2010 at 15:07 stahlwerk says:

    Happy Birthday Kieron, Good Luck and Godspeed with all your future endeavors in Half-Life 2.

    I will miss sunday papers most, as they always were just the right amount of thought-provoking to my still-slightly-inebriated sunday-brain. And if my condition was too hopeless, I always had the song to give me comfort. You may have failed in your own high goals of not linking to remotely related pop songs,…

    …but you never failed me. *sniff*
    Thanks, Kieron.

    Thieron.

  290. 30/09/2010 at 15:07 Shadow Wulf says:

    I will miss seeing more of your writing. But I’m glad things are working out with you now that you have a job with Marvel. Good luck and you will be missed. ^^

  291. 30/09/2010 at 15:08 Theblazeuk says:

    Probably not going to read this but all the best Kieron, I’ll be following your comic book work closely.

    I started reading (seriously, I was 8 or 9) when you were on PCG and I still crack up at the memory of KIERON’S HAIR.

    I always expected it to come back and take its revenge.

    (Also: More like Beta-Ray Bill: Godslayer please! Less like S.W.O.R.D. I really didn’t like that)

  292. 30/09/2010 at 15:10 Will Tomas says:

    Following your games writing was what led me to find RPS, back in 2007. It was what made me think that writing about games was worth paying attention to, and worth reading consistently. Thank you, for the fine, fine work.

    Good luck, and you’ll be sorely missed.

  293. 30/09/2010 at 15:10 Gassalasca says:

    I still remember that rainy Eastern European afternoon, when I was sitting at my local pirate games shop run by an elderly couple, leafing through the first issue of PCG I had ever seen. The elderly couple was subsribed you see, a teenager such as myself could never afford such a pricey foreign magazine. And I remember reading a Devil’s Advocate written by some guy with a name full of Celtic mystique and awesomeness.

    Well, the name stuck with me, but I never could read the magazine properly, I felt embarassed coming to the store just to read it. Some years later, I listened to the PCG podcast, and finally got the quirky voice, hurried and self-conscious, to match the goofy face and the cool name. And through I heard of RPS, almost exacttly two years ago.

    And then I discovered the real Kieron, the one who wrote the Cradle article, the Shodan article, the almost legendary Deus Ex review, the Alone in the Dark piece… The angry, moody, cool, not-so-young-anymore man who managed to pen down his farewell to Bath so poignantly that it touched a person who had been to the city. Tha man who writes about things in a way that makes you care, even though you’ve just heard of them.

    Well, good luck, goodbye, and thanks for all the Sundays.
    It’s been emotional.

    o7

  294. 30/09/2010 at 15:12 Niko says:

    Happy bithday!

    And good luck with your new projects.

  295. 30/09/2010 at 15:13 DevilSShadoW says:

    Good luck in all your future endeavors and thank you for all the wonderful articles over the past 2 years. You will be missed.

  296. 30/09/2010 at 15:16 Tyra Banks says:

    Hope you still turn out for the Podcasts!

  297. 30/09/2010 at 15:17 Fraser Allison says:

    The great value of RPS, and Kieron’s work in particular, was best described in that mega-drunken-interview with Paul Barnett a couple of years ago. Re-reading it now, I realise it’s not such a bad thing you’re going out this way:

    KG: I expect [RPS will eventually] kill each other with knives. I dunno. I quite like the idea of being the Clash. Having a few years and then falling out. We’re quite argumentative fuckers and it’s a miracle we get along at all.

    Barnett: Someone will offer you money. That’ll be the end of you. What’ll happen is you’ll find a voice, you’ll find a rhythm, you’ll find some way of connecting with things… and before you know it, someone will go, “We should buy it and own it” and then one of the two natural cycles will happen. You’ll end up rejecting collapsing and exploding, or you’ll take the money and leave, feeding on yourself and it’ll all become a horror-show.

  298. 30/09/2010 at 15:17 Raum says:

    You’ll probably never read this, but hey, it’ll be here. Forever.

    One of the memories from childhood that stuck around is about you and PCG.

    More specifically, it’s about an issue where the running gag was that you had cut your hair. I remember I was completely stoked, as I had somehow managed to start subscribing to PCG (importing it, I have no idea how I got my mom to do any such thing). Needless to say, this was the beginning of my foray into actual journalism written in English. It was the first magazine I’ve read that I felt was something I needed to read. Something I would regret missing.

    Anyways, back to the hair.

    One of the things that tipped me off to you being awesome was the constant mention of you cutting your hair in that very issue, and that even though I had never met you, or read anything you had written before, I knew it meant you were alright. I fell in love with PCG, and it never went away (I’ll have to admit I haven’t read it the past few years, though — and for that I’m sorry).

    This also means you were basically a guiding force through a lot of my formative years as a gamer. I’d like to think that was a good thing.

    But I’m digressing.

    The actual point was: I never got to see a picture of you with a full head of long hair. I heard it looked ridiculous.

    I’m thinking you actually had that hair when you started PCG, so the thing to do is, obviously, putting together an image of your head anno entering PCG and an image of your head leaving RPS. I’m sure it will fit nicely right after the quote from that movie.

    Another possibility is that I’ve imagined this whole thing, this being a false memory from my childhood, or regarding some entirely other person. Which will make this post look really silly.

    Oh, and happy writing at Marvel. Good luck.

    • 30/09/2010 at 18:09 Sagan says:

      Someone posted a picture of him with long hair on the forums once, so it must still exist. Except it has been so long ago that I can’t find it. It might have even been on the old forums, which are no longer accessible.

    • 30/09/2010 at 19:47 Raum says:

      Someone should poke someone until the image is posted.

  299. 30/09/2010 at 15:18 Pani says:

    I think I’ll miss your game-diaries the most. Please, if you’re going to come back and do any pieces, let it be those!

    Good luck with the comics!

  300. 30/09/2010 at 15:19 jeremypeel says:

    Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Kiernon, this isn’t just you flashing your famous British humour again is it?

    I don’t really want to bring up Tom ‘Bite-the-head-offa’ Chick at this point, but I feel like I should bring up the way you handled the fallout of Quinns’ Elemental piece a couple of months back. Following the related thread in Chick’s forum, I actually felt deeply proud of how you stayed focused, funny, and above all, resilient in defence of the integrity of your writers; all in the face of what was essentially a childish and overly personal attack, however well-formed.

    I mention this as one of many moments over the course of your career that have shown me what games journalism can be; not a series of buying guides or mere diversion, but stuff to seriously inspire and challenge debate. We have witnessed the birth of a new medium, and you have played a key (glittery pop) part in its soundtrack.

    I read the highlights of your first drunken high point in PCG in my early teens, and consider myself very lucky to have stumbled across RPS – a magical hub where all my favourite writers seem to live – last year.

    Thanks to you and this bunch of other PCG vets (and Quinns!), over the past months I’ve found myself in a transitionary state too, moving my efforts from music to games writing. At 20, that puts me at the same age you were when you entered the industry. I better get a taffin’ move on!

    It only seems right that we’re here to mark your passing from the field you helped sow, upsetting as it genuinely is. But as you would say in one of your fits of late ’90s pop punnery, Everything Must Go.

  301. 30/09/2010 at 15:21 Mark O'Brien says:

    Crap. Good luck. Almost wish I was into comics just so this wouldn’t be such a permanent farewell.

  302. 30/09/2010 at 15:22 tstapp1026 says:

    Good Bye Kieron, and godfrag to ya.

    P.S.

    We’ll be watching for your unannounced rants on racoon and wallaby mating rituals.
    …
    ♥♥♥

  303. 30/09/2010 at 15:27 Eric says:

    You’re 35? Well shit, I’m 30. That rather puts the pressure on my next 5 years, then. :-p

    Thanks for everything, Kieron. Have a great time being awesome in your new venture(s). :)

  304. 30/09/2010 at 15:28 inspirius says:

    I just had to register to say thank you for providing me with many years of enjoyable gaming articles.

    Thank you for writing two of my favourite gaming pieces – Deus Ex review and your ZangbandTk article.

    Lastly thanks to all the staff at RPS for creating what is fast becoming one of my favourite sites.

  305. 30/09/2010 at 15:29 ShowMeTheMonkey says:

    And I still remember the photoshop of you on John Mullins body in the SoF2 review….

    Dawww you were so young.

  306. 30/09/2010 at 15:30 Alaric says:

    Best of luck in your new endeavors, colleague!

  307. 30/09/2010 at 15:32 7rigger says:

    Goodbye Kieron, and the best of luck with Marvel.

    Been reading your stuff since PC Gamer and it would be a pity not to keep on reading, so pop by and see us often.

    We’ll probably be complaining about something.

  308. 30/09/2010 at 15:37 Matt says:

    Fare thee well, Keiron! I mean, Kieron!

  309. 30/09/2010 at 15:43 Fumarole says:

    Godspeed Kieron, and be sure to leave your iron at the door for Quinns.

  310. 30/09/2010 at 15:46 bill3 says:

    Good luck, Kieron, in your new endeavors, your regular presence here will be missed.
    Also, congratulations to Quinns for becoming a regular writer, had a feeling this would happen sooner or later.

  311. 30/09/2010 at 15:46 solipsistnation says:

    Wow, in the time it took to load page 5, 2 more pages were posted. That’s pretty incredible.

    Thank you, Mr. Gillen, for your writing, for helping bring us RPS, and for staying true to yourself even when you know it’s going to make a lot of people sad. There’s nothing more pathetic than somebody remaining a journalist when they’re tired of it and either just don’t care enough to put much effort into it or devolve into bitter ranting. I do hope you’ll return to writing when the new Deus Ex game shows up, and, well, whenever you feel like it.

    Quinns will be great, I’m sure. He does have a lot to live up to, though…

    (Also, 35? Happy birthday, noob.)

  312. 30/09/2010 at 15:47 wererogue says:

    Congratulations on the career move! I’m delighted to be seeing more of Quinns’ work, and of course saddened to be seeing less of Kieron’s (sorry, I dropped comics so that I’d still have time to play the occasional video game,) and I’m sad to see another pro-feminist voice in the gaming press get a little weaker :/

  313. 30/09/2010 at 15:48 Lasre says:

    It’s a class of writing like yours that inspires others to become games journalists (and perhaps comic writers – I don’t follow that area, sorry!). Never stop being brilliant.

    Oh, and to this date no other website has convinced me to turn off my adblocker. Am I cruel? Maybe. But damn, I love RPS.

  314. 30/09/2010 at 15:48 quijote3000 says:

    Well, what can I say
    Enhorabuena y buena suerte.

  315. 30/09/2010 at 15:53 Red Scharlach says:

    But when will you leave comics?

  316. 30/09/2010 at 15:56 Nick says:

    Godspeed, BremXJones.

  317. 30/09/2010 at 15:58 YogSo says:

    I’m fully expecting there will be a post in three days with a video of Kieron in a monk’s robe saying “GOTCHA!”.*

    Meanwhile, I’m just going to link to this: Please, don’t go.

    PS: Good luck in your future endeavours, Kieron. If you end up scripting some of the main X-Men I will probably end up reading them some time in the future (we are 9-10 months behind the current USA issues in Spain, but I’ve fallen even more behind on my own reading; I will catch up eventually…).

    * This is not true.

  318. 30/09/2010 at 15:59 George says:

    Well happy birthday KG. Thanks for the words. Maybe one day there may be another Phonogram?

  319. 30/09/2010 at 16:01 adseib says:

    Good luck Kieron!!! All the best.

  320. 30/09/2010 at 16:02 invisiblejesus says:

    Christ, and after writing two of the most interesting and useful articles I’ve seen recently, too (the Mafia 2 bit and the mechanical spoilers thing). Good luck out there, hoss, I’ll be reading your work in the funny books. And as far as RPS goes, I’m not going anywhere.

  321. 30/09/2010 at 16:04 Brulleks says:

    Best of luck Kieron and welcome to 35! (it’s actually rather fun).

    As a non-comic book reader myself, only one more thing to say I guess.

  322. 30/09/2010 at 16:08 jonfitt says:

    No! Wail! Nash, nash!

    Well done on all your hard work Kieron, you leave behind a good legacy.

    That’ll do pig.

  323. 30/09/2010 at 16:09 Vodkarn says:

    As one of the many colonials on the site, I must say: You will be missed.
    The sunday papers were always a fantastic block of text for me to read.

    I also will miss you reviews I guess ;)

    Good luck with your books of comic – you’ll be missed.

  324. 30/09/2010 at 16:11 Vodkarn says:

    Also: Fantastic picture choice; I understood immediately. (Though I guess I may have thought you were actually about to die.)

    • 30/09/2010 at 18:21 Armyofnone says:

      Yes, I thought the picture was amazingly appropriate, combined with the final few words. Glad to see I’m not the only one.

  325. 30/09/2010 at 16:21 Dances to Podcasts says:

    Does this mean Quinns will have to grow funny hair on his face?

  326. 30/09/2010 at 16:22 Vinraith says:

    Best of luck Kieron, you’ll be sorely missed.

  327. 30/09/2010 at 16:23 Dao Jones says:

    How will I get my music now? :’(

    Good luck with future adventures, Mr. Gillen!

  328. 30/09/2010 at 16:27 Dartheus says:

    Good luck Kieron, having been an avid reader of yours for years now. Your Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter mini series and Dark Avengers: Ares got me actively reading Marvel again. Will miss your Sunday papers also. All the best !!

  329. 30/09/2010 at 16:27 Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox says:

    Good luck, but fuck you, damn.

  330. 30/09/2010 at 16:30 Kakrafoon says:

    Vielen Dank für alles; es wäre schön, wenn Du nicht komplett von der Bildfläche verschwindest.

  331. 30/09/2010 at 16:32 miszobi says:

    Happy birthday and goodbye Kieron.

    Thanks for what you’ve done with RPS, and the best of luck in your future doings.

  332. 30/09/2010 at 16:32 FarSearcher says:

    I stumbled across RPS in January this year. This site has changed the way I see games.

    The five of you cracked open my mind and let the light in.

    You were a key part of that Kieron.

    Good luck

  333. 30/09/2010 at 16:33 Wizlah says:

    Good luck Kieron. I think the first article on rps I ever read was by you, linked in some obscure fashion from somewhere ungames related. I have no idea what. So basically, your writing got me reading RPS. Good job.

  334. 30/09/2010 at 16:34 El_MUERkO says:

    good bye

    we’ll always have the 8/10′s

    :sniff:

  335. 30/09/2010 at 16:35 Edwin says:

    My first comment on RPS and it’s a goodbye… :s

    All the best Kieron, thanks for all the quality you’ve laid down for us over the years.

  336. 30/09/2010 at 16:35 Shock in Canada says:

    Good-luck on Doctor Who Karen Gill! Oh wait…

    Seriously though, you will be missed on this side of the world as well. RPS is one of the last standing bastions of PC gaming. A refuge for those who refuse to cave to the domination of the modern day console world and a monument to a dying breed of gamer who grew up with the best of the 70s, 80s, and 90s but still looks forward to the bright future ahead.

    Long Live RPS!

  337. 30/09/2010 at 16:36 Wizlah says:

    also, you can never have too many uses of that image from blade runner. but this is better than most.

  338. 30/09/2010 at 16:38 Isometric says:

    Good night sweet prince. I wish you well on all your comic endeavours.

  339. 30/09/2010 at 16:40 pupsikaso says:

    Nooooo! Whom am I going to send my awesome indie games I’m working on in the future to look at? Come back KG! I promise I won’t ever make another negative remark about the games industry if you do!

  340. 30/09/2010 at 16:40 The Hammer says:

    Oh yeah. Since I forgot to in the first post (a few pages back)… BAPPY BIRTHDAY!

  341. 30/09/2010 at 16:40 Tychus says:

    Best of luck to your Kieron!

    I always cracked a smile or just burst out laughing reading your posts, you have an awesome sense of humour – keep putting it to good use!

  342. 30/09/2010 at 16:41 PleasingFungus says:

    Your posts were the primary reason I started reading RPS, I think.

    Best of luck in the land of comics!

  343. 30/09/2010 at 16:41 Nersh says:

    <3 you forever, Kieron. Happy birthday, good luck, have fun, and all the rest and best.

  344. 30/09/2010 at 16:43 Jockie says:

    Good luck with the comic-writing Kieron and thanks for your part in bringing RPS to those of us tired of seeing the PC section tucked away in the neglected corner of every gaming website. Your writing has entertained and informed as well as given me pause for thought every now and then, even if your musical taste leaves me baffled!

    I look forward to seeing your future contributions to RPS.

  345. 30/09/2010 at 16:46 SuperNashwan says:

    15 years? Jesus, I remember reading you when you turned up in PC Gamer, wondering who the hell you were. It’s a sad day for games journalism, without question you’ve made a massive contribution to showing how to deal with the medium in a mature and intelligent way, hopefully that’ll continue without you with a new generation of people like Quinns. I’m sure he’ll make a fine Kieron mk II.

  346. 30/09/2010 at 16:49 TheBrainninja says:

    Goodbye, Kieron! I’ve been reading for a few months, decided now was a good time to register/comment.

    I’ve enjoyed your articles, and you’ve been a large part of what’s made this site special. Thanks so much, and good luck in the future!

  347. 30/09/2010 at 16:53 Ninja Dodo says:

    Ever since I discovered RPS yours and the others’ writings have been my go to window onto all things PC gaming. Your voice will be missed.

  348. 30/09/2010 at 16:53 Philipp says:

    Neeeeiiiiin!

  349. 30/09/2010 at 16:59 Lambchops says:

    Happy birthday and best of luck, I look forward to any rantings about games we may have missed in the future.

    it was actually because of KG that I started reading RPS regularly (just so he doesn’t get too big headed, John is my favourite!) . I stumbled onto the site by accident, saw his name and thought “oh yeah, he’s the guy that convinced me to buy Darwinia and he was 100% bloody right about that, maybe this is a good place to find wonderful games such as that.”

    it damn well is and KG’s definitely been a big part of that.

    So enjoy those comic things.

  350. 30/09/2010 at 17:05 Fraser Allison says:

    Tyrell: You were made as well as we could make you.
    Batty: But not to last.
    Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long – and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you’re the Prodigal Son; you’re quite a prize!
    Batty: I’ve done… questionable things.
    Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.

    Happy 35th birthday.

  351. 30/09/2010 at 17:05 Pantsman says:

    Aw. You were always my favorite hivemind node.

    Good luck on your future journeys!

  352. 30/09/2010 at 17:08 Nitewatchman says:

    ;_; Farewell, kind sir…I shall miss thy snark.

  353. 30/09/2010 at 17:11 Bruno says:

    good luck wherever you go Kieron . I enjoyed the sunday posts.

  354. 30/09/2010 at 17:12 Serenegoose says:

    Happy Birthday Kieron! Hope you have great success with all the stuff you plan to do.

  355. 30/09/2010 at 17:15 Count Elmdor says:

    Here’s hoping you still turn up in the comments and podcasts and such from time to time.

  356. 30/09/2010 at 17:18 Frank says:

    Good luck! Time to follow your work-blog.

    I guess this means Quinns can have a profile on RPS’s “About” page.

  357. 30/09/2010 at 17:19 Morph says:

    Bye Kieron, best of luck. It would be easier to swallow if your reason for leaving was to write Phonogram 3 though.

  358. 30/09/2010 at 17:19 Gaytard Fondue says:

    Will Fred Wester be a sad CEO of Paradox now?

  359. 30/09/2010 at 17:24 Gweebo says:

    My favoritest gamercommenters of all, and not as titties-shy as the others.

    Yay for Kieron, nayyy for leaving.

    Be safe. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

  360. 30/09/2010 at 17:26 Will Tomas says:

    There goes a games writer. He was the finest of us. And we shall never see his like again.

  361. 30/09/2010 at 17:26 Jimbo says:

    Succeeded.

    Good luck, KG.

  362. 30/09/2010 at 17:28 Ysellian says:

    Like the others mentioned you’ll be missed, but you can’t feel down when someone else is going up in life.

    So Good luck, KG!

  363. 30/09/2010 at 17:29 Tom OBedlam says:

    Its been ace, cheers man

  364. 30/09/2010 at 17:31 Mad Doc MacRae says:

    Today is a good day to die.

    Good luck Kieron! Don’t be a stranger to RPS or we will come FIND YOU.

  365. 30/09/2010 at 17:36 pupsikaso says:

    And Happy Birthday, KG!

  366. 30/09/2010 at 17:37 Redd says:

    happy BIRTHday

  367. 30/09/2010 at 17:38 JoeX111 says:

    I’ll miss you, Kieron.

    I hope someone plans to pick up the Sunday Papers. That’s always been a highlight for me.

  368. 30/09/2010 at 17:38 sendmark says:

    At least tell me Sunday Papers will live on??

  369. 30/09/2010 at 17:38 Amalorn says:

    Happy birthday and good luck! You will be missed, especially the bad pun-age and pop references.

    Ps. let’s have another Phonogram once you get minted.

  370. 30/09/2010 at 17:41 Anononininmity says:

    I’ll always remember the review of Medieval: Total War you wrote for PCG. I was hooked from the first line:

    “I am the King of Spain!”

    That review prompted me to buy the game and got me hooked on the series. And I am now lucky enough to work on the Total War games now.

    Thank you in your way for helping put me on a very fulfilling path.

    • 30/09/2010 at 18:02 Kast says:

      I just broke into laughter remembering that review. I don’t think I ever noticed who wrote it, but looking back I would have to say it was one of my favourites. It totally sold what it felt like to play the game, and really that’s all we can hope for in a review.

  371. 30/09/2010 at 17:43 Little Tohya says:

    Thank you for Phonogram. It was wonderful

    RPS will still be great even without you, but it just won’t quite be the same. Good luck!

  372. 30/09/2010 at 17:50 Demiath says:

    I must be moderately blind, but I had never noticed the subscription option before. I subsribed as soon as I read about in this post – 2 USD seems like an unreasonably good deal for the large amount of good writing being produced by the dedicated RPS staff. I may not be able to afford a decent enough computer to actually play most of the (non-Minecraftian) games mentioned here, but at least now I can read about them while knowing that I’ve contributed ever so slighty to the production of high-quality verbiage.

    And, oh, it’s good to know that Mr KG hasn’t left nerddom just because games journalism isn’t his day job at all anymore. Going from video games to full-time comic writing seems a step down on the Ladder of Respectability, which will surely be regarded as a Good Thing from the perspective of most RPS readers…

  373. 30/09/2010 at 18:02 Warduke says:

    This sucks but I wish you the best. RPS has become a daily fix of mine and you were a big part of that. I hope the site can remain as strong without your daily presence. Good luck.

  374. 30/09/2010 at 18:06 Ed says:

    Whoah… Thanks for all the awesome words KG, especially these:
    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/10/june/wolkieron.jpg

    Games, never mind their journalism, wouldn’t have been the same.

    And congrats to Quinns on the absorption. Long live RPS! :D

  375. 30/09/2010 at 18:08 Jossu says:

    Thanks for everything! good game journalism is a hard thing to find

  376. 30/09/2010 at 18:09 Arathain says:

    Mr Gillen, I’ve been reading your gaming journalism since your early PCG work. You, personally, have changed the way I think about gaming, and I’m damn sure you’ve changed the face of your former profession, hugely for the better (is the reason we don’t talk about the War because you obviously won, and you’re OK with most folk not noticing?).

    Oh, and thanks for turning me on to an enormous pile of really excellent games. Because that’s as important as everything else.

    All the very best in your work with Marvel. They’re lucky to have you.

  377. 30/09/2010 at 18:09 W Main says:

    Good luck and happy birthday to you Kieron! I hope everyone goes well in the future and i’m sad to see you go. I remember reading your articles all the way back in PCG years ago. Though I can’t say I always agreed with you, I found your articles interesting and informative.

    Hope everything goes well in the future! Best of luck to you!

  378. 30/09/2010 at 18:12 TimA says:

    You shall be missed. All the best indeed!

  379. 30/09/2010 at 18:12 tikey says:

    May life smile upon you.
    I stayed on RPS because of your articles and found and amazing site. Thank you.
    I’m glad Quinns is your replacement, he’s an amazing writer. I just hope he’ll write some drunken articles like yours.

  380. 30/09/2010 at 18:13 Froibo says:

    Thank you for giving me what is hands down the best PC gaming blog.

  381. 30/09/2010 at 18:13 subversus says:

    Goodbye!

    Your pieces were fantastic!

  382. 30/09/2010 at 18:15 Trelin says:

    Long time lurker saying thanks for years of great stuff (even if that includes causing various fluids to be laughed out my nostrils; having a hard time forgiving you for the scotch incident).

    Best of luck wherever you’re going!

  383. 30/09/2010 at 18:16 Samuel Bass says:

    Safe travels, Mr. Gillen!

    How am I going to procrastinate Sunday mornings without The Sunday Papers? How? I despair!

  384. 30/09/2010 at 18:17 Armyofnone says:

    Kieron, you will be missed greatly.

  385. 30/09/2010 at 18:21 Freud says:

    Good luck.

  386. 30/09/2010 at 18:22 Alabaster Crippens says:

    I first bumped into Kieron by arguing him about whether his reading of SHODAN’s character in System Shock was misogynist. He argued with me intelligently, and I left thinking he was wrong.

    But I also read more of his stuff. And realised he was good.

    And everytime I see him picking up a feminist torch on site, it makes me happy. And I try and convince myself I made him care a little bit more.

    That a mainstream PC site regularly engages with misogyny in games is awesome. Many other things about this site are awesome. I’ll miss you, you bastard.

    And I’ll miss the zine-kid mid 90s glitter pop references too.

    Big love.

  387. 30/09/2010 at 18:24 JP says:

    If I said anything more than this, it would become flowery, overwrought and unworthy of your contributions:

    Thanks for everything, good sir.

  388. 30/09/2010 at 18:25 Kradziej says:

    You, sir, have been writing about games for 15 years.
    I’m sixteen.
    Oh my.

  389. 30/09/2010 at 18:25 Sagan says:

    It is a sad day.

    Well, I love your comic, so not all is lost. Except please make something more exciting than X-Men or Thor. More Phonogram would be ace, or something similarly indie.

    I’ve only known of you since coming to RPS two years or so ago, but I have become a fan of all of you guys. I want to thank you for broadening my musical taste and for making me more proud to love the music that I love. I wasn’t much of a music fan when I got here, but having someone post a link to a song that the rest of the world thinks is stupid, but you find utterly delightful every week, certainly made me one. In a club, I can now dance with delight to Single Ladies, and it turns out that some ladies like that, and I guess I kind of have to thank you for that.
    You also made me a comic fan, but only really of your comics. And Scott Pilgrim obviously. But yeah, hadn’t read many comics I like before coming here.

    Oh I don’t know what to say. Just thank you, and best of luck to you, and happy birthday and all that.

  390. 30/09/2010 at 18:28 Earl_of_Josh says:

    The only thing that sucks worse than Kieron not linking some new pop song he’s been listening too on his very last-of-all-time (as an official RPS person) post, is the horrible fact that he’s leaving. This truly sucks. Picking your favorite games journalist on RPS is like picking your favorite child, but without a doubt Kieron you brought something really special to the site, and it’ll feel like we are missing a limb without you for a while. And had another very iron-free limb sown on. Or something. (No offense Quinns, we love you!) Anyway, absolute BEST of luck to you in the future Kieron, it’s been a blast!

  391. 30/09/2010 at 18:33 Durns says:

    Thank you Kieron.

  392. 30/09/2010 at 18:38 destroy.all.monsters says:

    Well, that was unexpected. Happy Birthday and congrats on the Marvel deal. I will miss your Sunday Papers and your attempts to get people to challenge their assumptions. I love this site and you have done good here.

    Only expect to make it to 70, eh? Both my parents are over 70 now. Though I admit that a not insignificant number of my friends and co-workers are dropping and I’m only mid-40s.

  393. 30/09/2010 at 18:41 Deston says:

    Sincerely – thanks Kieron. Your work here has always been an absolute pleasure to read. It would be a scary statistic if I tracked how much time I’ve spent reading The Sunday Papers alone, they were always perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon of random gaming clickery. :)

    It’s really sad to see you leave, but knowing you will still be lurking in the shadows around here from time to time takes the sting out of it a little at least.

    All the best in the future mate.

  394. 30/09/2010 at 18:41 MaxwellKraft says:

    “Time to die.”

    Have you seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion?

    Seriously though, happy birthday and good luck. Also, since Marvel is now owned by Disney you can brag about working for the same company as Warren Spector.

  395. 30/09/2010 at 18:43 chesh says:

    Thanks, Kieron.
    While I fell in love with RPS fairly immediately, you were the first of the Hivemind to really distinguish yourself to me, having never heard of any of you beforehand. It was probably because of your love of music coming through, as that’s the medium that games have to challenge for my love.
    I was thinking of a whole lot more sappy stuff after reading this on the train to work this morning, that I didn’t want to try to type out on my phone, and now I’ve forgotten it all. I’m pretty useless, it would seem!

  396. 30/09/2010 at 18:45 frymaster says:

    thanks for all you’ve written

    and good luck in your future endeavours

  397. 30/09/2010 at 18:46 WantOn says:

    Argh, it feels as though Murdoch has left the A-Team! Or Lister Red Dwarf! Or Robbie Take That (ok, ok, that last one was a joke).

    Don’t know if you are still reading by Pg 8 KG, but I’ve spent the entirety of my adult gaming life reading and subsequently being influenced by your words and thoughts, along with the rest of the RPS crew. Its therefore with self-indulgent sadness and slightly more altruistic happiness that I read about your departure today.

    Good luck with everything you are going on to do; I hope it brings you real happiness. Please drop by every now and then to let us know how you are getting on, and possibly even let us know what you think about the state of gaming/new games journalism/generic FPS 17.

    Congratulations to Quinns on the promotion; its well deserved. And to the Jim, Alec and John, please, please keep up the good work! Still love you all, guys.

  398. 30/09/2010 at 18:47 Poindexter says:

    I just want to add my thanks onto the large pile of already existing thanks. Your work (and all of RPS’s) has gotten me through many a long day. Good luck with your future endeavors Kieron!

  399. 30/09/2010 at 18:48 Samuel Erikson says:

    So long, you magnificent bastard.

  400. 30/09/2010 at 18:50 Dave says:

    Having recently quit something that I loved doing for reasons that didn’t really make a whole hell of a lot of sense to anyone, other than I knew it was the right thing… uh… I don’t know where I was going with this.

    Thanks for being awesome anyway.

  401. 30/09/2010 at 18:51 Chris Hansen says:

    This kills me.
    That is all.

  402. 30/09/2010 at 18:52 Damien Neil says:

    You’re one of the few reasons that I can say “games journalism” without breaking into giggles. You’re going to be missed. Good luck, and curse the comics world for stealing you away!

  403. 30/09/2010 at 18:53 SpinalJack says:

    Longest comment thread evar

  404. 30/09/2010 at 18:53 Nootrishus says:

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of time….

    Congrats on landing the contract dude, all the best to ya, but will always look forward to reading your fine words :) Shame I’ve never been a big Marvel reader, might have to make an exception for ya.

    Congrats to Quinns also for shoe filling! Make us proud son!

  405. 30/09/2010 at 19:01 Gabbo says:

    Kieron regenerates into Quinns, and new games journalism gets a new theme tune.
    I salute you sir (and RPS in general) for keeping the Good-ship PC Gaming afloat.
    You will be missed.

  406. 30/09/2010 at 19:01 SirKicksalot says:

    I’ll always love you for giving me a free copy of Dragon Age :D

  407. 30/09/2010 at 19:03 AS says:

    No, Uncle Kerion! Don’t go!

    Aloha and all the best from half way around the world in Hawaii.

  408. 30/09/2010 at 19:03 PaulOHara says:

    Good luck with your future endeavors Kieron,

    Do us RPS folk proud!

  409. 30/09/2010 at 19:04 Guhndahb says:

    Thank you and good luck Kieron!

  410. 30/09/2010 at 19:04 Shakermaker says:

    Thank you, KG.

  411. 30/09/2010 at 19:06 Molloy says:

    Does that mean that New Games Journalism is now classed as Old Games Journalism?

    I still remember reading the Deus Ex review in PC Gamer that put Gillen on the map for me. Not forgetting his The Movies review on Eurogamer which he linked to my movie I made taking the cricket out of Peter Molyneux and himself.

    Good luck to you Mr Gillen!

  412. 30/09/2010 at 19:10 Da5id Jaz says:

    I’ve always enjoyed your articles, man.
    Good luck in your many futures

  413. 30/09/2010 at 19:14 Frosty says:

    Who the hell is Dr Karen Gillen?

    I admire you Kieron. You’re pieces on THAT level for example are one of the reasons why I come here regularly but we all know it’s not THE END. Quinns is a very worthy replacement and those other lot are pretty damn decent.

    May your ship always sail on calm seas. Unless you like it rough.

  414. 30/09/2010 at 19:16 the wiseass says:

    In this sea of comments everything has been said already. That’s why I’m at a loss for words here, except that I’ll miss reading your articles. I think Quinns will become a worthy successor and I’m looking forward reading your irregular input.

    The King is dead, long live the Queen, err Quinns!

  415. 30/09/2010 at 19:29 Govannan says:

    Kieron, many of your articles have caused me to have sex wees. Please shake that Marvel world up a bit :)

  416. 30/09/2010 at 19:42 Inglourious Badger says:

    A sad day indeed to see you leaving the world of games journalism behind. It is not an exaggeration to say you have been my favourite games journo I’ve had the pleasure of reading in the last 15 odd years since I picked up my first issue of PC Gamer (has it been that long!?).

    In the least sinsister way possible: you’re one of those few people I have a great affection for despite never meeting. I think a quick list of some of the many things I have discovered and enjoyed directly due to your recommendation ought to be a fitting tribute, so, in no particular order thank you for introducing me to:
    Deus Ex;
    Freespace 1 & 2;
    Planescape: Torment;
    The Thief games, oh the lovely Thief games;
    this very website;
    and even the music of Belle and Sebastian, which considering I was a 15year old Green Day fan at the time was quite an achievement.

    You got all those right so if you like these comic things so much you’re devoting your career to them maybe I should take a look at those too.

    That you’ve signed off with a picture and quote from my favourite ever film is absolutely no suprise at all.

    Best of luck in the future

    “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe….”

  417. 30/09/2010 at 19:43 Daniel Fuller says:

    Good luck, Kieron. It’s been a good ride.

    And, yeah. Who is going to run the Sunday Papers?

  418. 30/09/2010 at 19:45 colinmarc says:

    Congratulations and good luck! You were the first games journalist I ever knew the name of.

  419. 30/09/2010 at 19:51 darksheep83 says:

    Take care, good luck and happy birthday, Kieron.

  420. 30/09/2010 at 19:51 Azazel says:

    PCG Thief review still fondly remembered. Mentioned The Holy Bible – knew then that he wasn’t the worst.

  421. 30/09/2010 at 19:51 Thunderdownunder says:

    I’ve been reading RPS for a few years now, and i always look forward to those rants. Please keep them coming!
    Live long and prosper!

  422. 30/09/2010 at 19:55 Imonlyregisteringtocommentinthisthread says:

    Kieron, I’ve been reading you since the PCG review of Thief, and only discovered RPS through your blog.
    Will miss your regular contributions here, but best of luck with Marvel.

    Although its a little odd to find out we share the same birthday.

    (Puts on Los Campesinos! and cries)

  423. 30/09/2010 at 20:08 Colthor says:

    Wow. Happy birthday, goodbye, good luck, and have fun.

    Thank you. You’ll be missed. I hope Quinns can keep the quality of the puns up (down?).

  424. 30/09/2010 at 20:16 Dreamhacker says:

    We will miss you, Kieron! Remember Citadel!

    (If Quinns is the new you, will he be turning out Sunday Papers?)

  425. 30/09/2010 at 20:16 Jimmy Jazz says:

    Kieron Gillen, I salute you for years of entertainment, and great journalism.
    I salute you for being brave enough to leave mainstream gaming journalism and starting this.
    I salute you for making this site what it is.
    And finally I salute you for just being so darn awesome.

    I wish you well in your travels, and future ventures. may you live a life well spent.

  426. 30/09/2010 at 20:16 Freud says:

    On a brighter note, good to hear that RPS is doing good fiscally. According to my projections, assuming the rate of growth remains stable while everything else remains unchanged, you will be able to buy the country of Gabon in 569 years.

  427. 30/09/2010 at 20:20 vader says:

    Happy birthday and good luck. If you ever would find yourself in the far, far north of Sweden l shall buy you a pint.

  428. 30/09/2010 at 20:20 bigredrock says:

    Happy birthday Kieron, and thanks for many years of great writing – all the way back to AP.

    Enjoy what you do next, and don’t be a stranger.

    PS If you think 35 is bad, wait til you get to 39. :(

  429. 30/09/2010 at 20:25 Samuel Bass says:

    Safe travels, Mr. Gillen!

    Now I need to find a new way to procrastinate on Sunday mornings….

  430. 30/09/2010 at 20:38 Salazaar says:

    Kieron, you are unlikely to be aware of this but back in the ancient days of the PCG forums (somewhen around 2000 I think) you introduced me to the works of Warren Ellis, and in particular Transmetropolitan. For this I can never thank you enough!

    Been reading PCG and, by extension, a large body of your work since the first issue and I’ve always enjoyed it. So I wish you all the best in the new story arc!

  431. 30/09/2010 at 20:45 Veracity says:

    Feels like this has been a good while coming, which might sound rude but I hope doesn’t. Reflectively and selfishly it does make me wish scribbling about video games were a more sensible long-term career for people of a mind to continue with it, that it could generate its own Eberts and lead film critics of just about any broadsheet and so on.

    Still, congratulations on the contract and best wishes, and thanks, in particular, for Space Rangers 2 (EG review, iirc). And extremely belated-feeling congratulations to Quinns on finally becoming an official node.

    Marvel’s hired a small nation’s worth of proof readers in preparation, right?

  432. 30/09/2010 at 20:45 RedFred says:

    I, for one, welcome our new Quinns overlord.

    Good luck Kieron and thanks for all the great articles.

  433. 30/09/2010 at 20:46 Tim says:

    I’ve always been a bit of a lurker, around these parts, but I appreciate what you’ve done for this site.

    There’s not a lot of PC love these days unless you can afford a subscription to PC Gamer.

    Best of luck to you, and I look forward to reading your comics!

  434. 30/09/2010 at 20:55 Flameberge says:

    PCG Thief review was the original reason I picked up my first copy of PCG. Took a while for my immature mind to register who Kieron Gillen was, but not very long to understand and love his journalism and writing style. As other have said, in many ways he put the ‘journalism’ into games journalism. The Good Ship RPS will never be quite the same without you, but in The New Kieron Gillen the hivemind has picked the best possible successor.

    Thinking about the fact we’re now on the 9th page, chances are he’ll never see this. Soooooo:

    I also remember the dreadful late 90′s ponytail. *shudders* Or at least that’s what your black and white PCG mugshot made it look like anyway.

    Good luck in comic land sir!

  435. 30/09/2010 at 20:55 FunkyBadger says:

    Long Live the New New (New?) Games Journalism!

    Death to Videodrome!

    Best wishes on your future endevours.

  436. 30/09/2010 at 21:22 wyrmsine says:

    Best of luck, Kieron – you’ll be missed here.

  437. 30/09/2010 at 21:32 neothoron says:

    Kieron, I wish you a lot of success in your future endeavours.

  438. 30/09/2010 at 21:33 Ben H says:

    Best wishes with Marvel, and thanks for introducing me to so much outside mainstream gaming, and outside gaming.

  439. 30/09/2010 at 21:33 Andrew says:

    We will miss you. *I* will finally get around to picking up one of your trades from the comic shop around the way for a taste of what’s to come. All the best!!

  440. 30/09/2010 at 21:39 cowthief skank says:

    Thanks for everything, and good luck for the future.

  441. 30/09/2010 at 21:39 MartinNr5 says:

    Kieron: I will really miss your writing. When you were good you were brilliant.

    Good bye and best of luck.

    Quintin: Good thing you’re as clever a writer as Kieron.

    Welcome and best of luck.

  442. 30/09/2010 at 21:40 J says:

    It’s raining in Brisbane Australia today. For you, kieron.

  443. 30/09/2010 at 21:44 unclebulgaria says:

    The world turns. Everything’s been said but I’ll still miss the writing. Best, Peter.

  444. 30/09/2010 at 21:44 Craymen Edge says:

    Your contributions to RPS will be missed, thanks for all the hard work on making this such a fantastic place to be.

    But the Marvel news is amazing and exciting. Congratulations and best of luck!

  445. 30/09/2010 at 21:51 Caecilius says:

    Good luck in your future endeavours Kieron. As the best games journalist that I’ve ever read, bar none, you are bound to do great things.

  446. 30/09/2010 at 22:12 gromit says:

    Thanks for not just being a great writer but always taking the journalism in games journalism seriously. And also thanks for your part in creating RPS for us PC lovers. It really is a unique place on the web (not perfect! Don’t slack!)

    Best of luck with comics. I’ll probably skip most of your Marvel stuff but I’ll patiently wait for your own Sandman/Watchmen/Obama: The Comic Book.

  447. 30/09/2010 at 22:19 bagga says:

    I’ve been reading your stuff since I was twelve, puzzling over PC Gamer, slowly entering a subculture. The first piece of journalism – of any kind – that I remember was your Descent 3 piece – the half-Dear John half-love letter to a series. Which was, at the time, pretty radical for a review. Later, I have half-memories of recognising your name in White Dwarf. I found RPS, and found it great. Eventually I heard about Phonogram and The Singles Club from Warren Ellis, of all unholy people. Cribbed music from the endnotes, found the Afghan Whigs. And now you’re half-leaving games journalism.

    Brr. Must be weird, being part of some stranger’s memories. Keep up the good work. Fuck the fucking socks off ‘em.

  448. 30/09/2010 at 22:20 James Bruton says:

    Wow, you’ll be missed mate. That review of medieval was incredible. Easily the best piece of journalism I’ve ever read.

    All the best for the future

  449. 30/09/2010 at 22:23 Shazbut says:

    You were always the best around.

    Good job, sir.

  450. 30/09/2010 at 22:31 Jubaal says:

    The King is Dead, Long live the King!

    I’ve certainly enjoyed your articles over the years and to me you are one of the most open minded, intelligent games journalist I have come across. Though it is sad you are leaving the RPS hive mind and the world of games journalism I’m pleased that you are off to pursue your ambitions. I wish you every success in the future and have little doubt everything will work out well for you.

    o/

  451. 30/09/2010 at 22:38 SH4RKY says:

    Happy Birthday.

  452. 30/09/2010 at 22:38 Taillefer says:

    The monster’s name was Marvel.

  453. 30/09/2010 at 22:57 Kazang says:

    An exquisite exit in many ways.
    All good things must come to an end and games journalism was lucky to have to have you.

    *doffs cap*

  454. 30/09/2010 at 22:58 theunshaven says:

    We’ve got ten pages of people saying things, so I doubt this will be anything other than a repeat:

    a) Happy birthday,
    b) Thank you!
    c) Best of luck.

    I thought at this point being concise was the order of the day. And again, thank you.

    - The Unshaven.

  455. 30/09/2010 at 23:05 mpk says:

    Dude, have a good one. Haven’t read an X-book since Grant Morrison’s term, you’ve got me tempted to head back to Forbidden Planet :)

    15 years yeah? That makes it, christ, ten years since State started. I feel old.

  456. 30/09/2010 at 23:08 amishmonster says:

    You’ll be missed, Kieron. Glad you’ll still pop in sometimes!

    Oh, and if you’re the new Quinns, remember to eat lots of spinach. You’ll be needing the iron. Take care.

  457. 30/09/2010 at 23:21 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:

    When I first visited London, I bought myself an issue of PC Gamer. It could be 12 years now. And yes, you had articles in it., KG Even back then, with my piss poor (elementary school’ish) English and all, I could see your potential and talent.
    I’ve read some other issues of PCG later on (+ I still have got some of the few Czech PCG’s – it’s a shame it didn’t work out) and most importantly, I’ve grown really grateful for you belonging in the RPS hivemind.
    Thanks, man. And if you happen to re-visit Prague in future, lemme know…I’ll gather your Czech fans and you’re in for a looot of free “whatever you’d like to drink” and chat. I sincerely hope you’ll be in a ranting mood frequently :) Nope, I’m afraid you are too big of a tear to get lost in rain..even the heaviest.

    -Frankie

  458. 30/09/2010 at 23:31 Davee says:

    I’ll miss you, KG – and the 532 other commenters too I bet!

    I wish you good luck in your future endeavours!

  459. 30/09/2010 at 23:34 Langman says:

    Tanks for the memories.

    I think you’re ‘getting out’ at a good time tbh (or at least as good a time as any). You were a major player in the games journalism world back when PC gaming was at its zenith, and will be revered. Well done for being one of the best at what you did, I hope you can transfer that to your new venture.

  460. 30/09/2010 at 23:44 Will Morris says:

    I grew up with your games journalism, Kieron. It’s peculiar how I don’t remember so much the reviews, but the asides, the variations of your mugshot with comedy glasses positioning. Or am I just inventing these memories of PCG circa issue 100?

    In any case, your brilliance shined on at RPS, and it’s been great. Interesting how I find myself admiring strongly-held opinions, when I typically abhor self-certainty. Must be that you’re just damn right so often.

    However, I am optimistic for the future of RPS. Quinns’ Journey of Saga is a marvel, and his entries in your communal gaming diaries rival that of even Tom Francis. And Jim will still be there, with his lovely book and his lovely love of J G Ballard. And John, with his hilarity / crying. And Alec, with his firm stances. I do enjoy a good stance.

    Thank you.

    Onwards.

  461. 30/09/2010 at 23:55 Shadram says:

    First! …ish. Longest comments ever?

    Anyway, best of luck for the future, Kieron. Been reading your stuff for most of the 15 years you’ve been writing it, and always thoroughly enjoyed your words. I hope your career in comics is as notable as your career in games journalism.

  462. 01/10/2010 at 00:07 Soobe says:

    Yeah, at some point you have to look at your life and say I’m a really part if this culture anymore. I only say this because at 33 I’m nearing the wrong side of that 18-35 demographic line, and I need to figure out if playing games and being art of their social scene is right for me moving forward.

    Now add two more years to that, along with lifeless sequel after lifeless sequel and well, I may just hang up my game playing hat at that age as well. Not to say that’s what your doing, but hey, it’s what I may do.

  463. 01/10/2010 at 00:19 matte_k says:

    Sad to see you go KG, but your reasons are solid and true. It’s been a pleasure to read your material over the years, you’re one of the earliest names and faces i can remember peering out at me from PC Gamer with any degree of frequency, and the articles were always warmly written and of the highest quality. Your music taste was bordering obscure, but at times you would throw a reference in that made me go “Man!”, as I realised you and me are the same age, thus remembering the same music (and some similar places, as you’re a Stafford boy If I recall- I’m just down the road in bleak Wolverhampton!)
    And you’re not completely disappearing into the ether, you’ll keep reappearing like that drunk Uncle at Christmas :)
    Godspeed old comrade, fly safe in whatever you do- and don’t be a stranger!

  464. 01/10/2010 at 00:21 Saul says:

    Thanks for all the fish, Kieron. RPS has inspired me to get into games journalism, and you most of all. I’m just taking my first wobbly baby steps and you, sir, are responsible.

  465. 01/10/2010 at 00:23 ghostwork says:

    Ah. I thought I sent a message praising your greatness and influence in my gaming sense already, but alas, no such luck since I guess I closed the tab wherein I had written up an ode to Rock Paper Shotgun. I might not have been involved in the respectable social community this Internet Website has created around it, but alongside Blackle and my regular online discussion forum, RPS is one of the three tabs that open up by default whenever I boot up my Firefox. This whatchamacallit blog-webzine-thing is a perfect bouillabaisse of what’s fun (ongoing DF story) and what’s informative and criticism-wise close to my heart (Wot I thinks fx.) to read on whatever comes to PC gaming. Personal Computers are where it’s at.

    I love your humour, taste, storytelling and, well, your writing altogether, and it goes without saying I’ll take a close look at your work at Marvel as soon as I get the chance. Before that, I’m hoping you type up a twelve thousand word (preferably 12k paragraph) essay on an obscure PC board game-like none of us have heard as much as word one about. RPS, and you, are to thank for what comes to my undying love of Cryptic Comet’s Armageddon Empires & Solium Infernum, Recettear, World of Goo and countless others.

    I’ll be watching you. Be afraid, Kieron Gillen but also, be proud. Thank you for your work on the site, and good luck in your future endeavours.

    tl;dr: gtfo, never liked that guy anyway. Quinns was and is miles better!!

  466. 01/10/2010 at 00:27 LionsPhil says:

    Biggest comments thread on the site so far?

  467. 01/10/2010 at 00:56 Tetragrammaton says:

    R.I.Perodically posting. Shall be missed *sob

  468. 01/10/2010 at 01:00 Fred Wester, CEO of Paradox says:

    *salute*

    I stumbled upon RPS just under three years ago and have been enjoying it very much since. Best of luck with the rest of your endeavours!

  469. 01/10/2010 at 01:00 Zwebbie says:

    Whoops, forgot to change my name there. Sorry, Fred!

  470. 01/10/2010 at 01:16 Anon says:

    Godspeed you, good Sir. I’ve enjoyed your writing for many a year now and hope you enjoy your long, painful descent into crippling senility and incontinence. The final frontier!

  471. 01/10/2010 at 01:44 Zerrick says:

    Just incrementing the comment-count here to let you know how much we will miss you.

    I’ve been reading RPS for almost the full three years now and it has made me think more about games then anything else. I’ve also bought most of the games in that time on recommendation of the fine articles posted here, and thoroughly enjoyed them, never being let down.

    This site is at the top of my RSS feed because of the excellent articles, the humour, the camaraderie of you writers and its regular commenters. I always have some time to read it. These qualities aren’t mentioned enough.

    I did fear this day would come. That change would happen and Rock Paper Shotgun wouldn’t exist any more as we knew it. But I’m really glad that it keeps continuing and that there is a worthy successor for you. And that you don’t have to stop because of monitory problems or internal arguing, but because you choose to.

    So yes: Thank You for all your work, and good luck.
    Farewell, and I hope to read you soon again.

  472. 01/10/2010 at 01:58 Loopy says:

    Thanks for everything Kieron, and good luck in comic book land (or is that graphic novel land?)!. It’s been fun, and hopefully we’ll still be graced with your presence from time to time here anyway. :)

  473. 01/10/2010 at 02:13 Samfisher says:

    All the best Kieron, and have fun on your new adventure! I remember your first review, Medieval Total War in PCG, and ever since then have been a fan of your work. Will you be leaving games journalism permanently until the contract with Marvel expires? (assuming there’s an expiration date or a set number of issues that you’re working on)

    It’d be sad to lose a great writer and journo like you :’(

  474. 01/10/2010 at 02:14 Hyoscine says:

    All the best!

  475. 01/10/2010 at 02:16 Deoden says:

    Goodbye Kieron, and thank you.

    You showed us that games journalism could be highbrow (I still remember your intro to PC Gamer’s Thief II review, ‘gynaphobic descent into the Maw’ and all), funny (I’ll never be able to look at Jim without being reminded of his stunning orgamsic prowess) and, most of all,l that the two didn’t have to be mutually exclusive. I know John Walker’s already pointed it out as a source of inspiration, but your love letter to Descent III should be compulsory reading for all budding games journalists. Intelligent, witty and deeply personal, in hindsight it was a blueprint for everything New Games Journalism could, and should, have accomplished.

    Oh, and the passion involved in seriously creating a manifesto to improve the industry you’d already given so much to? That megaphone-mouthed, burning heart, hotter-than-a-thousand-suns passion for the medium you gave 15 years of your life to? That’s what I’ll cherish most of all.

  476. 01/10/2010 at 02:20 Justin says:

    Thank you for helping to make RPS the bastion of internet greatness it is today – I will gladly have your opinions forced upon me for many years to come, in a less-regular manner. Or something. And happy birthday for yesterday.

    Good luck with Marvel and whatever else you choose to do in the future…

  477. 01/10/2010 at 02:22 Pijama says:

    You know, the credits below the page actually are TRUE now… “Rock Paper Shotgun was…”

  478. 01/10/2010 at 02:28 Hybrid says:

    Best of luck Kieron. Thanks for all your writing and inspiring me to give games journalism a shot even though I never considered myself a writer. I look forward to your future posts on RPS.

  479. 01/10/2010 at 02:33 Wasbrough23 says:

    Good luck out there sir. I’d say something about missing you, but as a comic book fan, I’ll still be reading your words.
    Long live RPS!

  480. 01/10/2010 at 02:52 DerangedStoat says:

    Just adding my voice to the already enormous crowd, all the best, and thanks for helping bring us RPS as it is today!

  481. 01/10/2010 at 03:28 Sunk_Ridge says:

    GL & Happy Birthday

  482. 01/10/2010 at 03:31 Melf_Himself says:

    Will definitely be sad to see KG go, he is my fav of the hivemind (my gaming likes/dislikes seem to align most closely with his). Hope to see as much of this “occasional” writing as possible.

    Who will do the Sunday Papers??

    Sad face.

  483. 01/10/2010 at 03:54 Johnny Go-Time says:

    It was dark in one particular corner of the world, and a cruel, cutting cold knifed through everything. In a dismal corner of a creaking hotel, a forgotten vodka martini slalomed condensation half-heartedly down to the counter.

    Johnny Go-Time stared into the mirror, willing his jaw muscle to unclench. Once again, a comrade was gone, and – somehow – Go-Time was not. Somehow he had survived, where another good man had been lost. It wasn’t through any unique skill on his part – far from it. It was nothing more than a roll of the dice by a careless god that had decided — and yet again, Go-Time’s number had not come up.

    The feeling now wasn’t sadness, not quite. The lifestyle didn’t allow for friends, after all – only a handful of trusted acquaintances. Those dependable, loyal connections that can only be forged in the fire of a burning world.

    But now another Bond had been cut. One less name to hunt for in those moments – those terrible, shrieking moments – where the riot of lies had become too much to handle alone.

    Johnny Go-Time swore once, loudly, then strode sharply from the room. There was a job to do. And the man who had been lost – like the martini – was forgotten, and all that remained was the mission.

  485. 01/10/2010 at 06:17 lethu says:

    “J’ai vu tant de choses que vous humains ne pourriez pas croire, de grands navires en feu surgissant de l’épaule d’Orion. J’ai vu des rayons fabuleux, des rayons C, briller dans l’ombre de la porte de Tanhauser. Tout ces moments se perdront dans l’oubli comme les larmes dans la pluie. Il est temps de mourir.“

    Dying Batty picture makes up for a good career outro reference. Above, out of my own memory, in French, because it’s the only language I have learned it in, the matching quote from that same scene of Batty, perhaps as a farewell hymn or tribute. Good luck Kieron Gillen in your future life, it’s a sad day, it has been a journey reading you.

    -
    An admirer.

  486. 01/10/2010 at 06:32 Grey_Ghost says:

    Well, good luck and all that. You will be missed.

  487. 01/10/2010 at 06:49 Alan says:

    We shall always have the Shalebridge Cradle, Mr Gillen.

  488. 01/10/2010 at 07:03 Andthensobecause says:

    Aww, Kieron. Felt like this day has been coming for a while. You have been such a wonderful blessing to games writing and games thinking. Found you during the manifesto days and brought me here to this best games site on the internet. So thank you for all your writing, in all forms. I look forward to your future work.

    Congratulations, though, on generally just doing it in life. You continue to be inspiring and thoroughly enjoyable.

  489. 01/10/2010 at 07:35 SanguineAngel says:

    Well first and foremost Happy Birthday My Gillen!!!

    It is a sad day for RPS to be losing one of the Hivemind. Thanks for everything you’ve done here Kieron you have been an inspiration. I have thoroughly enjoyed both your words and your thinkings on Things. In fact you have created what is, in my opinion, the most credible and entertaining games site on the net. This is down entirely to the Hivemind, your collective personalities and the sense of community you’ve built up by being so involved.

    Congratulations, though, on landing your awesome new job! judging by the last 10 pages and the most comments i have seen on anything here I am sure we are all very happy that you have moved on to something you truely want to be doing. I am personally very impressed and pleased for you. You are a lucky chap – not everyone gets to work in what I presume is several of their dream industries. It must have taken a stellar amount of work.

    Lastly, congratulations on your new title of Qiunns! And Congratulations to Quinns on your new status of Kieron!

    Happiness and flowers and stuff for everyone! yaay

  490. 01/10/2010 at 08:03 leeder_krenon says:

    it’s like when duncan mcdonald stopped writing for your sinclair :(

  491. 01/10/2010 at 08:08 CTRL-ALT-DESTROY says:

    Kieron quitting RPS = Grammar on RPS + 10. But also sadness :(

  492. 01/10/2010 at 08:44 Hodge says:

    Man! I hope they get you so boozed up at the RPS meet that you get all remorseful and change your mind.

    Nah, that would be selfish. All the best KG.

  493. 01/10/2010 at 09:21 Mister Yuck says:

    Quinns can’t replace you, but I’m glad it’s Quinns who’s replacing you. Thanks for raising the bar about 2 notches.

  494. 01/10/2010 at 09:36 cypher says:

    Good luck in comics and anything else you turn your hand too, the selfish part of me is going to miss the like of your bloodbowl diaries and the sunday paper, but honestly you’ve given far more than your fair share to games journalism already. So really I’m just looking forward to seeing what you do next!

  495. 01/10/2010 at 09:57 KillahMate says:

    A belated Happy Birthday, Kieron, and best wishes on your new journey. I’ve been following your work ever since that damn NGJ manifesto, and you’re a big part of the reason RPS became my go-to games site. It’s good to know you’ll still be lurking around.

    On the other hand, where will I get my daily dose of terrible mid-nineties zine-kid glitterpop puns now? On the other other hand, yay! You’re working on fixing the comments! On the… other leg, hi Quinns! You’ve been seriously stepping up your game lately, it’s nice having you around more. Check with the hive mind about the Sunday Papers, would you?

    Kieron, I hope you have a good life doing the thing you love. See you around.

  496. 01/10/2010 at 10:57 Dean says:

    Have to love that this is the most commented on story ever in RPS. Shows just how unusual and wonderful a site it is. How many other gaming sites would attract more comments on a piece about staff changes than one on piracy or microtransactions. Awesome.

  497. 01/10/2010 at 11:44 Tomski says:

    Happy Birthday Kieron, good luck with all the comics business. You will be missed.

  498. 01/10/2010 at 13:27 Rane2k says:

    Good luck with the comics business, Kieron, and thanks for RPS!
    Will we get your Sunday Paper´s from somewhere else now? Or will one of the other 4 step up to the task?

    Also:
    Quinns gains 47 XP.
    Quinns is now level 14!
    +1 Str
    +1 Int
    +2 Wis
    +5 Workload :-)

  499. 01/10/2010 at 13:28 Kieron Gillen says:

    I’ve just read as much of these ten pages as I could – because to read closely would just get me all sniffly – and I wanted to thank you all. Having the audience that RPS does is one of the many reasons I’m so proud to have been here.

    ONWARDS!

    KG

  500. 01/10/2010 at 14:12 asdf says:

    But… who will talk about himself in every article, all article long now? Who will write articles about Kieron Gillen now that Kieron Gillen has stepped away from writing articles about Kieron Gillen?

  501. 01/10/2010 at 14:24 smac says:

    For me, it’s more a case that Kieron has been a major part of the discourse surrounding gaming; and not just professionally, but taking part in thoughtful (yet irreverent) discussions with us rabble online in the old Edge forums; on State; on rllmuk before all the industry types buggered off en masse and of course, via RPS.

    So, our loss, but you gotta know when to make an exit. And how.

    Anyway, when’s the first screenplay out? That’s where the money is, man.

  502. 01/10/2010 at 14:31 JohnnyMaverik says:

    …………………………………………………………………….. <3 :'(

  503. 01/10/2010 at 14:55 Ed says:

    I’ve been reading your stuff since you started at PCG. Good luck in your new venture, sir!

    Bless you, Kieron. Blieron.

  504. 01/10/2010 at 15:13 Komus says:

    Ditto, I’ve been enjoying your work for the past 10 years (jesus…). PCG and RPS are outstanding examples of why PC Gaming is such a great place to be. You can surely claim a sizeable chunk of each. Thank you for killing countless hours spent at work with your mighty rock, paper and shotgun <3

  505. 01/10/2010 at 17:30 Lorna says:

    The ‘expert in quite literally everything, ever’ leaves the building… Like others, I also grew up reading PC Gamer during the Gillen era, before slowly switching to console gaming, but yours is one of the few journo names that I’ve ever remembered :) All the best for the future.

  506. 01/10/2010 at 18:11 HYPERPOWERi says:

    What a shame.

  507. 01/10/2010 at 19:45 sinister agent says:

    You can’t not be a games journalist! I’ve met you, you’re a proper person and everything. You have to be a games journalist or I’ve no proof they exist! Damn it.

    I’ve enjoyed almost several things you have written over the years. All the best, Mr. KG.

  508. 02/10/2010 at 01:11 Surgeon says:

    What?
    You can’t be giving it up!
    Please, don’t leave.
    You’re the best thing to happen to Dr. Who for years.

  509. 02/10/2010 at 01:52 minipixel says:

    may the force be with you :)

  510. 02/10/2010 at 03:22 Adventurous Putty says:

    Kieron, your games journo writing has been among the best I’ve ever read and lent serious credence to the idea of video games as a legitimate artform worthy of in-depth criticism. I haven’t always agreed with your conclusions (though, surprisingly, I have with most), but they have always been fascinating and thought-provoking reads.

    Good luck to you, wherever you end up going — I can only hope you inadvertently write something that is a huge commercial as well as critical success so that you become the next Alan Moore, or something.

  511. 02/10/2010 at 09:59 Enshu says:

    I’ve suddenly realized that there’s so much to read. Need to catch up to all those 15 years.

    So, I’ll hunt you down and read you.

  512. 02/10/2010 at 10:57 SRendall says:

    Good luck mate.

  513. 02/10/2010 at 20:10 thesundaybest says:

    I’ll add my very late voice to the mix – sad to see you go, excited for your future, and hoping this means, although it almost certainly doesn’t, more Phonogram.

  514. 02/10/2010 at 21:40 wretcherd says:

    *climbs on desk*

    “O captain, my captain!”

    • 06/10/2010 at 08:46 BonusWavePilot says:

      “We don’t play and write games because they’re cute. We play and write games because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain gaming. But Minecraft, Spelunky, Darwinia, Love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the shooters… of RPGs filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here – that games exist, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”

  515. 03/10/2010 at 00:24 GameOverMan says:

    From C-Monster to Karen Gillan, it has been a hell of a ride. Good luck and thanks for everything (Julie Newmar).

  516. 03/10/2010 at 10:48 Tom Camfield says:

    Sad times! I’ve been reading your work since AP, even lobbed your UFO review online, so it’s sad… but also kind of cool, since I’ve been following you for about 15 years, it’s nice to see EVERYTHING WORKED OUT, eh? Who’d have thunk you’d be here now, a full time writer for Marvel? Great times. Good luck, God Bless, and Happy Birthday!

  517. 03/10/2010 at 17:32 DrazharLn says:

    And so perhaps the finest writer of video games journalism that I have never met quits the stage.

    I wish you the greatest of luck with your future endeavours.

  518. 03/10/2010 at 18:23 Feste says:

    Cheerio and good luck Mr Gillen. Your articles and reviews are one of the reasons that I’m still gaming let alone playing them on the PC. At least this means that I have a reason to carry on reading comics now.

  519. 03/10/2010 at 23:08 Papa Voodoo says:

    Sorry to see you go.
    May you find wealth and happiness in all your future endeavours.

  520. 04/10/2010 at 10:34 ManaTree says:

    It was fantastic reading your works, albeit I came very, very late in your span. I’m sad you’re leaving, but I’m glad you’ve had that…breakpoint of knowing when it’s time.

    Salutations, KG, good luck, and amen.

  521. 04/10/2010 at 12:27 gnodab says:

    Yapma Lan!

    Don’t go! You brought me back to PC gaming after almost a ten year hiatus. Now I jump to RPS on a daily basis to look for the much needed NewGameJournalist’s Sexy-Talk and hencefort I’ll have to go into could turkey?! Oh, you cruel bastard. At least gimme a proper book not those flashy-coloury stuff…

    And what about the RPS-Podcast? After all this training to learn to comprehend your rapid, british ramblings with my poor non-nativ listener’s ears… All for nought?
    Well I’ll have to travel to the UK and start to pick random fights in your pubs, eh?

  522. 04/10/2010 at 12:46 mizipzor says:

    Best of luck! You will be missed.

  523. 05/10/2010 at 12:24 Chris says:

    I go on holiday, then come back to find this!

    Good luck Kieron. There is a time for everything under the sun… (Batty was a plagiarist :)

  524. 06/10/2010 at 08:38 BonusWavePilot says:

    Thanks KG. It’s been awesome. Catch you in comics land.

  525. 12/10/2010 at 01:21 Tim says:

    Thanks for the good times Kieron – your articles on this site were one of the major inspirations for me to get into the games journo gig myself, and I’m loving every minute of it. Good luck with Marvel and look forward to seeing what you get up to next!

  526. 19/10/2010 at 13:07 Cunzy1 1 says:

    Which one was Kieron?

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