Jim: This is the kind of game that isn't, and shouldn't be a joke. RPS-irregular Quinns goes deep into the heart of Pathologic and singlehandedly makes a years-old ramshackle Russian game the RPS cause-celebre. Kieron: A game which kinda made me wish I was still writing tips, just so I could have milked it as a running gag. simultaneously clever and very, very stupid. You can't add to the Mona Lisa, even if it's to draw a moustache on it.Īlec: I like to think this is the kind of game RPS would have made, were we more than the inept commentators we are. I figured I could play along with the joke, or explain the joke, or add to the joke. I mean, obviously - it's a little unusual to write nothing. John: It was tempting to write something in the original post. Kieron: I actually knew it was going to be Tyranids in an off-the-record way for a few weeks before the announcement. Is it time for the Dawn of War 2 expansion pack faction speculation sweepstakes yet? It still does! That hasn't diminished my interest however, because I'm very interested in Large Space Men fictions of all kinds.Īlec: I think we're all disappointed they didn't bring the Squats back. Jim: Whee! I was one of the lucky nerds at the initial announcement of this, and it looked like Diablo with squads. In other gamesradar related notes, I haven't stopped saying STRAIGHT TO THE SEXY at inappropriate moments all year.ĭawn of War 2 announced and we get our geek-credentials out in public by trying to work out what the other races would be. "We're very disappointed," say RPS chairman Jim Rossignol, "We'd have to consider this editorial direction a total failure". Extensive features on the making of System Shock 2 and the forthcoming Jumpgate: Evolution lead to no significant fluctuation in the number of readers.
We wanted to put one saying something along the line of "Unimpressive Traffic Following RPS' Space Week: Last Week's "Space week" on resulted in PC gaming blog no significant alteration in its traffic. Opening quote: "Gamers' love for "Hate" sends GamesRadar to record traffic: Last week's "Week of Hate" on gave the videogame destination its best March traffic numbers ever". Just before, Gamesradar sent out a triumphalist press-release about the success of their WEEK OF HATE. That Space Week was a disaster when it really did fine is one of my favourite internal RPS-gags, mainly because of a joke we half-planned to do and never did. There's no reason why Stalinist revision can't be cheerful. I still want to do Happy Week, where we post only positive stories and savagely remove any comment with even a hint of whining. Specifically, all those space-game Retro pieces the rest of you said you'd write AND THEN DIDN'T. Really looking forward to that.Īlec: Oh, what plans we had. Loads of mods, a great space MMO with another one on the way: Jumpgate Evolution looks stronger and stronger each time we see it. There's a bunch of good stuff in there, anyway, and the PC remains very strong for spaceheads. Jim: No, it was the most successful non-holiday season based week ever. However, I contend that we were successfully floating in space throughout. John: Space WEAK more like! Ah ha ha ha ha. Simultaneously, Space Week becomes RPS' least successful theme-week ever. Jokes that aren't funny aren't funny.Īlec: One day we'll learn that giant entertainment industry corporations aren't in the habit of doing anyone favours. This is why some people are indie game designers and not comedians. On April 1st, for a joke, they say that they've been given permission. It had been taken down from online, and there was a campaign to get it back.
Kieron: RPS is divided on the subject of April Fool's gags, but the makers of the indie Space Hulk conversion's was particularly ill-conceived. Indie Dev wins worst-April-Fools gag prize. Saturn was also big (but not quite so much). What was big this month? Jupiter was big. So we reach April in our retrospective of the year's big events, as seen through the lens of RPS (which works like a normal lens, but with added ironic-yet-unironic egotism).