@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.
the dystopia genre continues to be made redundant
01.03.2026 07:54 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0reskeeting so that i may see more rats
28.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hoverbikes are cool. Having a fist fight after each race is also cool.
www.jank.cool/a-hoverbike-...
AI cannot do our job because AI don't feel shit.
www.jank.cool/why-im-not-w...
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...)
www.readergrev.com/p/marathon-n...
[in quieter voice]
love u rps
We got Sin to write for Jank. And we'll do it again.
www.jank.cool/i-am-very-la...
the fucken mad max bicycle helmet lol
23.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
www.jank.cool/what-is-your...
the xbox PR team for the last two years
21.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Burnout 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."
18.02.2026 06:34 — 👍 3885 🔁 1236 💬 154 📌 250
The Lemaitres need to make one more brutalist bunnyhopper so I can print a t-shirt that says:
Babbdi &
Straftat &
Vholume &
[???]
I hope this is enough to convince you that this series of articles is some of the most fun, informative game journalism I've ever read and you should read it too.
19.02.2026 04:21 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
People posting online aren’t talking about the thing they seem to be talking about but instead are talking about posting
Talking about books? No they’re talking about posting
Movies? Posting
Sex? Identity? Experience? Art? No they’re posting online about posting online
Making bots is against the EULA, said Eve's new bot.
18.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I tried to convince Eve Online's new AI chatbot to delete itself.
www.jank.cool/i-will-break...
There's no "hero" in Mouthwashing, but there is at least an honest drunk.
www.jank.cool/swansea-from...
by the bane of my blade, a mighty spell is made and
far beyond the battle blood shall fall like a hard rain
@jank.cool would never
12.02.2026 16:36 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0this pod with @brendyc.bsky.social was literally so much fun and we spent a not insignificant amount of time learning that luke is constantly being attacked by birds
13.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0i do not apologise, for i know no other way
13.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
13.02.2026 03:12 — 👍 23251 🔁 5814 💬 162 📌 173
Fixing cars with friends is great. I am a good mechanic.
www.jank.cool/its-a-car-me...
I went on the @aftermath.site pod to chat about Jank.cool and the state of games media and I *think* I did not embarrass myself but you can never be sure.
www.twitch.tv/videos/26960...
for Death Stranding fans new to MGS4 this is Gut Punchman and his brother Punch Gutman they are the main characters of the game
12.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 193 🔁 39 💬 3 📌 0
It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...
not yet!
11.02.2026 22:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's only a plucky "comeback" if you went anywhere.
www.jank.cool/is-overwatch...
