@brendyc.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, and co-founder of PC games website Jank. Visit: jank.cool | Follow: @jank.cool Prev bylines at Rock Paper Shotgun, IGN, PC Gamer, Edge, Eurogamer. Narrative for: Cataclismo, Creatures of Ava, and Moonlighter 2.
are resident evil requiem's big text splashes being weird for anyone else?
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Here's what we've been writing at Jank this week. It's all still free because we keep forgetting to put the paywall up.
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oh no the spy satellite found my hard drive
I see people argue that you can't criticise small indie games, and I always wonder: at what scale does it become OK, then? How many employees does the team need? How many games under their belt? How much money made? Do developers need to submit audited accounts before you can say it's only okay?
John, you've reviewed little known indies negatively a heap of times. Criticism isn't just for Activision. We spent time playing a bunch of demos and wrote about ones we liked and ones we didn't. Part of recommending stuff can also be saying "give it a miss". You've done this yourself many times.
I was incredibly psyched to bring Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi back from the video rental shop - "A fighting game but with STAR WARS characters!? How could this be bad!"
Really great supporters episode of Total Playtime last week some absolutely vintage use of voice changers by Nate, and @brendyc.bsky.social hubris/backstabbing www.jank.cool/total-playti...
Other websites are available.
The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
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We may examine indies through a different lens, but you owe nothing to journalists, and they owe nothing back. If you make games you will encounter harsh opinions. I wouldn't apologise to EA if I hurt their feelings. So you don't get special treatment. Criticism is not exclusive to Ubisoft.
the thing I hope the most about jank.cool is that I hope they indulge in the age old tradition of sending brendy to a game event he both is unequipped for and also does not want to attend
we'll make this a stretch goal
the dystopia genre continues to be made redundant
reskeeting so that i may see more rats
Hoverbikes are cool. Having a fist fight after each race is also cool.
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AI cannot do our job because AI don't feel shit.
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Wrote about what it means that Concord — a game that famously nobody played — has become one of the primary lenses through which video games are discussed today.
(Also some stuff toward the end about what's next for ReaderGrev...)
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love u rps
We got Sin to write for Jank. And we'll do it again.
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the fucken mad max bicycle helmet lol
What's your best memory of "jank" in a game?
From disappearing towns to floating jaguars, 14 game devs tell us their favourite glitchy moments.
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the xbox PR team for the last two years
Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."
The Lemaitres need to make one more brutalist bunnyhopper so I can print a t-shirt that says:
Babbdi &
Straftat &
Vholume &
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