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