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And You May Have Missed…

By RPS on July 1st, 2007.

Being a big ol’ list of the big neat things on RPS you may want to read if you’re a newcomer. Or a particularly inattentive oldie.

ULTROMEGAFEATURES: Features so big we give them a silly name.

The Go Team! Team Fortress 2, class by class.
The RPS 2007 Game-O-Calendar: Looking back at the best games of 2007.
Games For 2008: The year preview in full.

INTERVIEWS: Developers with high talkosity verbospeaking.
Raph “Theory Of Fun” Koster talks MMOs and Metaplace.
Ron “Monkey Island 2″ Gilbert talks Deathspank.
Soren “Civ4″ Johnson talks about PC gaming.
Eric Wolpaw on writing for Valve, and writing Portal
.David Speyrer on making Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Kim Swift and Jeep Barrett on making Portal.
Ken Levine on the Making of Bioshock.
The Splash Damage story: Paul Wedgwood on how they got to make Quake Wars: Enemy Territory.
Robin Walker and Charlie Brown on Team Fortress 2. Part 1. Part 2.
Professor Henry Jenkins on games and academia.
Nathan ‘Oveur’ Richardsson on Eve Online.
Adam ‘Cargo Cult’ Foster on Half-Life 2 super-mod MINERVA: Metastasis.

MAKING OF: Interviews with Developers on the origins of classic games
Collect them all by clicking the Making Of tag.
Hostile Waters
Freedom Force
Harvey Smith
Rise of Nations
Laser Squad Nemesis
Arx Fatalis
City Of Heroes
The Longest Journey
Settlers II
Operation: Flashpoint
Cannon Fodder 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows
A Tale In The Desert
Dungeon Siege
Sacrifice
Shogun Total War
Outcast

RETROSPECTIVES: Cleverthinks and Heart-On-Sleeveage about Games We Love (Mostly)
Syndicate
Tron 2.0
Alien Versus Predator.
Cannon Fodder.
Kohan II
Planescape: Torment
Republic Commando.
The Longest Journey.
Writing to Reach you: Two months with Travian.
Vampire – The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

GENERAL MESSING AROUND: We know they’re funny.

Rebel Without A Pause Key: Kieron’s adventures with Liberal Crime Squad.
The Worst Ninja Series: Alec tries to play Ultima Online with only the in-game instructions. Madness.
Quest For Glory: John Walker dresses up as a wizard, stands in Bath city centre and tries to give people quests.
RPS Countdown: Perchance to Dream: A top 11 of recent dreams the RPS peeps have had. Psychologists, notepads ready.
Project FreezerCube: Walker decorates his fridge as a Weighted Companion Cube. Yes. Yes, he does.


CRITICAL ESSAYS: Yeah, just as poncy as they sound.

ErotiSim: Sex and The Sims.
No Jokes Aren’t Funny Anymore – The Orange Box moving comedy to the core of PC gaming.
World of Evecraft

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