Rock Paper Shotgun has published the fifth edition of its Christmas Cracker for 2025, a collaborative Home Features piece compiled by eight RPS writers. The piece leans into a traditional Christmas cracker structure, pairing festive humor with self-aware reflections on a year of game coverage. As with past installments, it balances humor with a nod to the site’s workload and the festive season.
The eight scribes speak in a self-aware, meta voice about the year that was. They reference we eight scribes from RPS and after twelve months of graft, and tease the reader with lines from a celebratory poem: O, reader of wonder, loved the most; Why not subscribe to Supporters posts? January leading, still proceeding, See you once we’ve munched our roasts. The piece closes its jokes with a classic cracker riddle: Q: Where does Santa feel most sore after his evening delivering presents? A: Ball x Pit.
The feature sits within Rock Paper Shotgun’s ongoing lineup of year-end content and is accessible on the All: The fifth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 hub. The piece is part of the site’s broader celebrate-the-season remit, offering a compact, collaborative respite from longer features.
A seasonal illustration accompanies the piece, contributing to the mood of a Christmas cracker. The image credits go to Rock Paper Shotgun, and the artwork—a Horace Christmas Frankenstein—appears in two formats in the post’s inline imagery.
The presence of the Horace artwork reinforces the playful, offbeat tone of the cracker and the site’s penchant for quirky humor. The composition evokes a mashup of Victorian Christmas card whimsy with a Frankenstein twist, a visual echo of the merry, self-aware mood that informs the notes.
In summary, the fifth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 continues a tradition of collaborative, lighthearted humor wrapped in a festive theme. It functions as a holiday breather, foregrounding the site's multi-voice approach and the annual invitation to supporters to join in the ongoing community.