Rock Paper Shotgun has published the ninth entry in its annual “Christmas Cracker” series for 2025—one of the site’s long-running holiday bits where the staff serves up a festive joke alongside a wink-and-nod sendoff for the season.

Framed with a short rhyming intro from the RPS team, the post keeps things deliberately light: a quick seasonal stanza, a prompt to enjoy the joke, and a reminder that the outlet’s Supporters subscription helps fund its work.

### What Is the RPS Christmas Cracker?
For readers who don’t follow RPS’s December traditions, the “Christmas Cracker” posts are small, comedic interludes—less about breaking news and more about maintaining a playful editorial voice during the holiday lull. This 2025 edition continues that cadence, leaning into the kind of low-stakes humor that’s designed to be shared between bigger year-end lists and industry wrap-ups.

### Supporters Pitch, Holiday Sign-Off
The post also doubles as a gentle nudge toward RPS’s paid Supporters content, positioning the subscription as a way to keep the site’s reporting going into January. It’s a familiar move across games media right now, where reader funding increasingly offsets the volatility of ad-driven publishing.

Even if the content here is intentionally small, it’s a useful snapshot of how established gaming outlets keep community engagement alive during quieter weeks—and how subscription messaging has become part of the standard editorial toolkit. For players, it’s harmless holiday fluff; for the market, it’s another reminder that sustainable games coverage often depends on direct audience support.

Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-ninth-rps-christmas-cracker-2025 |