Rock, Paper, Shotgun Home Page |
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| URL | http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ |
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| Type of site | PC gaming news |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Kieron Gillen, Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, John Walker |
| Created by | Kieron Gillen, Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, John Walker |
| Launched | July 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
Rock, Paper, Shotgun is a UK-based PC gaming blog written by Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, John Walker, and previously Kieron Gillen and Quintin Smith.[1] Rock, Paper, Shotgun launched in July 2007.[2] In 2010 the website partnered with Eurogamer.[3] Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports on upcoming major releases and independent esoterica, and includes reviews, previews, features and interviews related to PC gaming and the PC gaming industry.
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The site has four main contributors:
Kieron Gillen was a co-founder (with Meer, Rossignol and Walker) and regular contributor to the site from its launch in July 2007 until 30 September 2010, when he announced that he would no longer be involved in posting the day-to-day content of Rock, Paper, Shotgun, focusing more on his work with Marvel Comics, but would continue to act as a director and occasionally write essay pieces for the site[5].
Rock, Paper, Shotgun also features less frequent contributions from several other writers, including Tim Stone, Phill Cameron, Lewie Procter, Robert Florence, Richard Cobbett, Brendan Caldwell and Lewis Denby.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports on upcoming major releases and independent esoterica, and includes reviews, previews, features and interviews related to PC gaming and the PC gaming industry.
Some of the frequent categories of stories posted on RPS include:
On February 8, 2011, the game Bulletstorm came under scrutiny by Fox News through an article [7] by John Brandon and later on February 20, 2011 through their televised broadcast and another article. [8] The game was targeted because of its profanity, crude behaviour (examples of which including the game's skill-shot system, which has a move that rewards players for shooting at an enemy's genitals), and sexual innuendo. Alongside the panel of Fox News anchors was a psychiatrist by the name of Carole Lieberman, who remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games." Other claims included that the game could reach audiences as young as nine years old, and that the gore and profanity could seriously traumatise a child of that age group. These claims were largely ridiculed among gaming websites including Rock Paper Shotgun who ran a series of articles discrediting the reports by Fox News [9] and analysed Lieberman's claims, and found only one of eight sources she provided had anything to do with the subject at hand. [10] Fox News acknowledged that they had been contacted by Rock Paper Shotgun and responded to the claims by Rock Paper Shotgun through its article on February 20, 2011 by stating that the game still remained a threat to children.[8]