Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Posts Tagged ‘The-Sunday-Papers’

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on August 23rd, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are for coming back from Poland full of admiration for their ability to throw down, getting disgusted at the idiocy of British Rail Staff, seeing how your Beta Ray Bill pages in issue 3 turned out and compiling a post of all the fine reading from across the week while trying to avoid linking to some piece of pop music you rediscovered in the last week.

.

86 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on August 16th, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are for downloading Indie Strategy Games, sipping tea and compiling an enormous list of the fun and fascinating reading from across the week, while trying my jolly hardest to not link to some fine 80s indie miserablism which I found myself listening to this morning…

.

72 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on August 9th, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are for sitting, drumming fingers, waiting for your new comic to be announced at WizardWorld Chicago and compiling a list of the (especially fruitful) interesting (main) videogame writing across the week and try and not link to -er – some poetry? That doesn’t sound very me. I blame womankind.

.

112 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on August 2nd, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are inexplicable jet-lag, luxuriating in the glow of a 7-1 Blood Bowl victory and compiling a list of the finest (mostly) games-related writing from across the week in a handy list format, while trying to not include a link to some manner of pop music or another.

.

71 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on July 26th, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are for sitting in a darkened hotel room with your comrades in arms still snoozing, trying to compile a list of the interesting reading from across this week – and since I’ve been away, that’s a relatively sleight one – for the RPS readership’s delectation while trying to avoid sliding in a link to some manner of pop song. And then throwing some clothes on and heading back to my table on the Image stand at Comic-Con. Yes.

  • Reading through this gamasutra piece on the charts about consumer research into buying upcoming games, and I hit an particularly eyebrow-raising snippet: “Elsewhere, Left 4 Dead 2 now ranks fifth among all upcoming titles, with the ratio of awareness to purchase intent the most notable statistic: six out of ten gamers who have heard of the title say they plan to buy it. Only Alan Wake, God of War III and Modern Warfare 2 have higher ratios. “This data point is the best indicator of franchises that have a passionate and loyal fanbase, and Left 4 Dead 2 has accomplished this feat in a remarkably short period of time,” says Williams.”. In other words, that boycott isn’t exactly catching on.
  • Read the rest of this entry »

.

66 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on July 19th, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are for jet-lag, 110 degrees Vegas heat, and crouching on an old friend’s apartment whilst being harried by her dog. Also compiling a list of the notable games writing from across the week while trying not to lob in a link to one of the most glorious noble follies of Eighties pop music.

  • Game Set Watch sidles up to another one of our writers, gets them drunk and then takes them home to have their wicked way with them. This time it’s our man in Canada, comrade Quinns, starting a new column – BATTLE KLAXON! – which seems to be about whatever is in the inside of his funny little noggin. This time it’s how Warhawk is an overlooked pleasure. And it’s certainly overlooked. I can’t find it on the PC release schedule anywhere. Man!
  • Read the rest of this entry »

.

81 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on July 12th, 2009.

Share ·

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs third album has also finally clicked. This has been an odd week for pop music.

The Sunday Papers surprises me. Sometimes it can be Thursday and my document is nearly empty. I think it’s going to be a small one. And then, Sunday hits, and I’ve all the writing in the world. So, as is Sunday’s wont, I compile a particularly bumper selection of the fine games writing across the week, while trying not to link to some pop-band who’ve managed to surprise me totally in the same period.

  • Loyola Professor David Myers has been playing City of Heroes as part of his research. Which strikes me as a good thing to do. However, he’s been playing his Alt Twixt as… well, only obeying the rules of the game rather than the social rules. This lead to becoming one of the most hated players and recieving death-threats. He’s written a paper on it, and a book is forthcoming, but this article has an over-view of the events plus a link to one of his papers. Myers comes across somewhat naive, frankly. Gaming social groups act like social groups? Yeah, so what? And why shouldn’t they. Myers, from their perspective, was acting like a sociopath with no interest in societal mores.
  • Read the rest of this entry »

.

80 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on June 28th, 2009.

Share ·

It's sad about Farrah too. And all the other deaths this week. A friend went on a rant about all the deaths this week which was fascinating.

Sundays are for tea and compiling a list of interesting videogame readings from across the week for the RPS-audience’s delectation, while trying to not break into an improvised tribute to a real titan who passed this week or link to a pop song. Must… try…

.

90 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on June 21st, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are pain and a list of reading about games without a pop song. But mainly pain.

.

78 Comments »

The Sunday Papers

Posted by Kieron Gillen on June 14th, 2009.

Share ·

Sundays are for sitting and compiling a list of interesting gaming reading from across the week, and finding myself remembering that the chatter by games journalists about a fall in standards is just ludicrous. We’d have been lucky to get pieces as splendid and varied as the ones gathered here in a whole year in the early nineties, let alone in a single fucking week. Wouldn’t it be good if someone would admit that games writing has never, ever been better than it is right here, right now? Wouldn’t it? WOULDN’T IT? AS IF A FUCKING TYPO IN A GAMESPOT PREVIEW MATTERS AT ALL IN THE LARGER SCALE OF CUNTING THINGS AND… oh, I better not include a link to a pop song.

  • I suspect I shouldn’t have kept this for the Sunday Papers. Roburky has been writing an alternately hilarious and genuinely heart-breaking diary of playing as a homeless single-parent family in the Sims 3. If you haven’t picked up on it from any of the places its been linked to, you should go catch up now. It’s almost certainly going to end up the premier piece of popular games reportage of the year.
  • Read the rest of this entry »

.

123 Comments »

GamersGate has loads of PC games.

Respond to our gibber

  • Fede : “There has already been another post here at RPS speaking about HistWar: http://www.rockp~ Funnily enough reading this thread about BF dropping HistWar I wondered if ...” on HistWar: Boney Retreats From Battlefront
  • Mort : “I don't have a lot of love for Battlefront, they're masters at over selling second rate war games, banning naysayers from their forums, and restrictive ...” on HistWar: Boney Retreats From Battlefront
  • 12kill4 : “Say what you will about Ney's failure to capture Quatre Bras quickly (I'm of the mind that the evidence suggests the fault here lies with ...” on HistWar: Boney Retreats From Battlefront
  • Donkeydeathtasticelastic : “Just bought Mass Effect. Kinda meaning to get it for a while, so PERFECT OPPORTUNITY.” on The RPS Bargain Bucket: Cracking
  • Vinraith : “"patient publicity" Well, that line pretty much kills both Battlefront versions, being that this is a very interesting-soun~ project in a genre I'm very fond ...” on HistWar: Boney Retreats From Battlefront

Browse the archive

Buy classic PC games from Good Old Games, please.