HELLO! We are about to go live with @brendyc.bsky.social to talk about Jank.cool! twitch.tv/aftermathdotsite

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This game is so good

Names for this new column that we rejected: Brunch After Reading Linkin' Park Snooze In Brief The Jankend Not The Sunday Papers

Here's a gif of Bennett Foddy being kidnapped by a spider in Peak. You're welcome. www.jank.cool/three-game-d...

What you should play this weekend: www.jank.cool/what-you-sho... (Please tell us what you ARE playing in the comments.)

Pod! @marshdavies.bsky.social is joined by @grahamsmith.bsky.social to chat about Jank.cool, a cool website for cool people, the best games of the decade so far, deduction game TR-49, frenzied shmup Sektori and joyous platformer Big Hops. crateandcrowbar.com/2026/01/30/e...

I had a great time with Big Hops, a 3D platformer with movement that's expressive and creative (and frustrating)

The best games of the decade (so far): www.jank.cool/the-best-gam... More importantly: a list feature with 68 game recommendations all on a single page with no ads.

We are hiring! My advice to any applicants is to use the cover letter not to talk about the past but about what you will do in the future and how that will contribute to the site and serve our readers.

jank dot cool is so good a name

A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com. Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.

Calling new writers - get mentored and be printed in ON3! We have 6 spots available in the next magazine to showcase new voices. Email [email protected] with an example of your work and any relevant experience by 8th February. on.games #GamesJournalism #GamesWriting

Anyone talking about screentime or other shite in relation to this and not the fact that no one can raise a child on a single salary or the cost of nursery or other forms of childcare is someone not worth listening to. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

HELLO! My name is Alice Bell. I used to write about games, and now I still do that but also write murder mysteries with ghosts and jokes. The latest is about solving a murder in a pro-wrestling gym and is out now! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of: ✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands! 🧙‍♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction! 🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support! ...then get in touch!

I don't typically like any genre you'd put it in, or any system it contains, and yet Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time would be on my top ten of the year. It dares to ask: what if Animal Crossing was a videogame? A daft, colourful, bountiful dopamine machine, and a lark to play with kids.

The father of indie gaming

I don't think I nailed Despelote in my review back in May, but it's one of my favourite games of the year and you should play it. www.rockpapershotgun.com/despelote-re... "In a medium often dominated by genre pastiche and YA fiction tropes, what a treat it is to have a videogame that feels true."

The most exciting moment I've seen in any Game Awards trailer so far was when Total Warhammer 40k actually showed the UI. This industry needs to stop being ashamed of buttons and HUDs.

Skinemax, Smash TV's mashup and DJ mix described as "Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes". Originally uploaded to Vimeo in 2011, lightly edited here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cQL...

Just going to post a different thing I like every time a stupid video game discourse begins. Here's a cool song and music video by a Japanese band called OGRE YOU ASSHOLE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1Y...

Flea is making a trumpet album, and if it's all like this, oh boy.

In honour of the original breach wizard, Santa, we'll be in this year's Jingle Jam bundle! It starts on Monday, and you get us and 14 other games if you donate at least £35 to one of the Jingle Jam charity fundraisers.

Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them. To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch. store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

Just saw that Anthony Jackson died, one of the best (and most prolific) bass guitar players. For years I've been returning to these Hiromi Trio Project performances in which Jackson plays a six-stringed bass guitar that he *invented*: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIYI...

This is really easy outrage bait, but it's worth reading the original story no one links to see this is a consequence of climate change and not a moustache-twirling Lord McVitie cackling upon his chocolate (flavoured) throne: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work! ⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer. 🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote. Let's chat! hannahnicklin.com linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin

Split Fiction (2025).

Feel this is being buried under the digital ID announcement today.

So Starmer is backing ID cards - which I do not like - in order to facilitate this government’s ugly immigration policies - which I also do not like - and in doing so is apparently spiralling down the electoral drain and throwing votes to Farage - whom I do not like? Fan-fucking-tastic.

If anyone is considering purchasing part of a property via a shared ownership scheme, I strongly suggest you: don't. It's pitched as "affordable" housing but then they will quadruple your service charge and make it so no mortgage lender will touch it, stopping you from selling or staircasing.

I started my new job last month: I'm now studio manager/producer at Suspicious Developments, the team responsible for Tactical Breach Wizards, Heat Signature and Gunpoint!

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

Floof.

Would people be willing to pay more for Silksong? Sure. Is it worth more? No idea. Is it nice to have an interaction with capitalism that isn't designed by a team of data analysts to take you for the absolute maximum possible? Yeah.

The BBC is about to shut its Written Archives to the public. Writers and researchers rely on these archives. They belong to the licence payers. Please sign and share this open letter.

I don't know what this is but it's the apex of technology

We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I

I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent? www.polygon.com/news/615910/...

Donkey Kong Bananza takes a moment to find its feet, but once it does it's every bit as glorious as you'd hope from the brains behind Odyssey, Galaxy and the like. Few better feeling games.

Thanks for keeping your word @grahamsmith.bsky.social

After 12 years, I'm leaving RPS at the end of this month. This also brings to an end 8 years with Gamer Network, during which I was lucky enough to manage several websites, help with events like EGX, PAX and MCM under ReedPop, and more. Now it's time for someone else to lead RPS in a new phase.

I think what I love most about Nintendo consoles is how intuitive they are for families. [Spends four hours Googling for information Nintendo doesn't give you anywhere.]

Rematch puts "defensive stance" on LT, but press it during celebrations and it unmutes your microphone. Did this unknowingly last night and broadcast a YT video I was watching on a 2nd screen on comms until someone shouted at me. The video was about the manga Berserk and a scene with a horse iykyk

I'm sure the game developers at Microsoft appreciate hack journalists rushing to incorrectly announce their studio's closure for clout. That's how you be an ally to the workers

Long-term followers: this is me applying my RPS style to toys. Gags, analysis, diversions, existential crisis. Other folk: this is me trying to write about stupid toys in a way no-one else does. New subs very welcome, ofc! It's all free.