When we announced that we’d been acquired by Gamer Network earlier this month, we mentioned that this gave us the resources to do things we’d been wanting to do for a long time. Some of those things are happening right now. We’re hiring new people, including a hardware editor and video producer/presenters. Read the rest of this entry »
RPS Feature The future is exciting
Rock, Paper, Shotgun began in 2007 with a modest goal and in the ten years since has grown and grown, from that first post to a glistening archive of over 33,000, and from four founders working in their spare time to a hugely successful enterprise with seven full-time staff. We achieved our goal, but our ambitions have grown bigger.
We want to keep growing and to build a better, more entertaining website about PC games, and we can do that better with help. To that end, we’re excited to announce that RPS is now owned by Gamer Network.
What does this actually mean? Read the rest of this entry »
Last night, content delivery network and security service Cloudflare reported that a security issue means that it’s possible they accidentally leaked user passwords for websites that use their service. Since RPS is a user of Cloudflare in the operation of our servers, that means that to be on the safe side you should change your RPS website and forum password. We think it’s highly unlikely that any user will be affected but it’s better to be safe than sorry. There’s more information on exactly what’s happened below, along with details of how to change your password.
Remember a time when you could post a comment on RPS, suddenly detect every typo with near-superhuman speed and ACTUALLY CORRECT THOSE THINGS? No, us neither, but now you can do that exact thing!
If you were to imagine Rock, Paper, Shotgun as a person, we’d be three naughty toddlers balanced on each other’s shoulders wearing a long coat. Ignore the groaning from our knees, pay no heed to the whispers from our tummy; we are a proper full-grown game website and you’ve no reason to argue otherwise. For example, we’ve got a proper game reviews database and everything now. It includes every Wot I think wot we’ve thunk dated back to 2010, it can be sorted by title and date, and golly you can even type words in a wee box at the top and it’ll find reviews that include that word.
Magic.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun is more than just a website. It’s the last line of defense against the humdrum of everyday existence. It’s an ever-expanding collection of wonderful, videogame-y things to help you remember why you love this medium in the first place. It’s sort of a blog, which is a subcategory of website.
It’s also a Facebook page, Twitter account and YouTube channel, which maybe you’d like to follow.
