RPS got bought out about five years ago and all of the old guard left. The new RPS is about 70% run-of-the-mill reporting that you can see anywhere, 10% awful promos for hardware sales, and 20% starry-eyed young journalists trying to emulate what RPS used to be.

Despite all that it’s still the best single site for gaming criticism, sadly.

I feel they still have some flavour they used to, but it got diluted. Partially it's the natural author / rehiewer turnover,Partially it's the volume of Deals and Hardware video articles and generic press release news. They don't even call them wot I think anymore :).

It's still the single gaming site I follow the most. But it's not quite as concentrated fun as it used to be.

Cannot speculate how much of that is due to being bought out and integrated a few years back. I think it's correlation as much as causation.

Some of the old gang have started their own things but they tend to be very niche.