Rock Paper Shotgun went downhill a long time ago. The original was an opinionated humor column about video games founded by talented writers. It was sarcastic but all on good fun. The owners left more than a decade ago, it was sold to one of the media conglomerates that hoovered up a bunch of other games journalism sites, and RPS even operated without an editorial staff for a while (not sure if that’s still the case as I stopped being an active reader around this time).

The new guys try to ape the sarcasm and style of the old stuff, but it comes across as disinterested at best to downright mean-spirited a lot of the time. The useless clickbait titles don’t help either.