RPS is 15 years old today!
On this day, in the year of our Horace 2007, Rock Paper Shotgun was born. Yes, previous birthday posts will tell you the site's official birthday is August 20th - the day RPS was fully unveiled to the world - but those same posts will also tell you the four RPS founders were mucking about with the site in secret for well over a month before that. It's also the date that's been etched into our Wikipedia page, which we all know is the true source of all knowledge. So here I am, demanding showers of cake and confetti, because I'm now the one to blame for all this. Happy Birthday to us.
Of course, technically it's our 149th birthday, us having been PC gamers since 1873 and all that - the eternal, ineffable conumdrum sitting at the heart of RPS that's been baffling occasional passers-by for well over a decade. I've only been with the site for just under a third of that time (the 15 years, I hasten to add, not the full 149), having joined the site in the autumn of 2017 as RPS' first hardware editor. The site's changed quite a bit since then, both in terms of its design and its amazing hivemind of writers. To illustrate just how far we've come, here's what the site looked like on October 26th 2017, the day my very first post got published.
D'aww, look at us being all edgy with that splatter effect across the Shotgun and our red, white and black gamer colours! Weren't we just adorable?
Quite different to today's version of the site, that's for sure, which we introduced just a few months later in July the following year. As you can see below, we still had our old Latest blog-roll-style format in place back then, crowned by a trio of hand-selected highlights from the editorial bigwigs. However, last year in 2021, we decided that
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