The Sunday Papers
This is Rock Paper Shotgun's regular "Sunday Papers" column, a humorous, satirical roundup that frames links to other games journalism as a rambling pub conversation full of laddish, cockney-style banter. Rather than reporting a single news event, it curates several unrelated pieces from across the gaming press, wrapped in a comic narrative involving flat caps, pints and mock-serious asides.
The linked items include a piece by Jade King at TheGamer on Anatolia, a newly revealed Fire Emblem character described as a nun-turned-gunfighter shown off during a recent Nintendo Direct; a GamesRadar article by Jasmine Gould-Wilson on Baldur's Gate 3's modding success, noting the game has passed one billion mod downloads in three years; and a tangential detour into baseball history, referencing broadcaster Jon Bois's "Secret Base" content about players such as Lenny Randle and infamous incidents like a pitcher brawl and a streaker evading capture on the field.
- RPS's comic "Sunday Papers" column rounds up gaming-related links via a pub chat
- Fire Emblem reveals new gunslinger nun character, Anatolia, via Nintendo Direct
- Baldur's Gate 3 passes one billion mod downloads in three years
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Gaming journalist Jade King, GamesRadar writer Jasmine Gould-Wilson, and broadcaster Jon Bois's baseball content are all referenced here, but the real subject is Rock Paper Shotgun's own regular feature. "The Sunday Papers" is a weekly column on the video games website Rock Paper Shotgun that rounds up notable articles from across games journalism, wrapped in a comic, exaggerated pub-chat style rather than delivered as straight reporting.
Each week's column links to a handful of unrelated stories from other outlets, using the joke framing as a loose connective thread rather than a genuine news narrative. This particular instalment points to coverage of a new Fire Emblem character revealed at a Nintendo Direct presentation event, a report on the modding success of the role-playing game Baldur's Gate 3, and an aside about historic baseball incidents.
Because the column is a curated digest rather than original reporting on one event, understanding it mainly requires knowing that Rock Paper Shotgun is a games news site and that "Sunday Papers" is its long-running, tongue-in-cheek weekly roundup format, not a single story in its own right.