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Cars is therapy now. www.jank.cool/over-the-hil...

Permaban recreates the worst of gaming forums. www.jank.cool/permaban-rec...

Here's what happened this week on Jank (mostly good) and the PC gaming world in general (mostly bad) www.jank.cool/jank-mail-by...

This weekend you may play with haunted trains, crystals, or woims. Your choice. www.jank.cool/what-you-cou...

Cryptic crosswords are a PC game. We made one for you. www.jank.cool/the-jankword...

We let Nate steer this week's supporter-only Total Playtime, which is why we ended up eating the Xbox-branded McDonald's menu. www.jank.cool/total-playti...

Half-Life 2 style shooter Adaca is proof that those plastic-looking low poly asset packs can be used with craft. www.jank.cool/adaca-could-...

Hellraiser: Revival's schlocky ultraviolence contains a deeper rumination on pleasure than we expected www.jank.cool/hellraiser-revival-review/

Ancestry dot com but it's a videogame. Fill out an old family tree by picking through historical records and courtly proclamations. www.jank.cool/the-archives...

Building a colony on the back of a space whale is neat, but the novelty doesn't last. www.jank.cool/beyond-these...

This week: a website that traps AI crawlers in a labyrinth, and another that tasks AI with building a chair. Should be simple, right? www.jank.cool/the-lie-in-38/

This week in PC gaming contained a number of game reviews (good) and some enervating AI discourse (bad) www.jank.cool/jank-mail-le...

Somehow, Kotick returned. www.jank.cool/total-playti...

You could - wait please, hear me out - but you *could* play videogames this weekend. www.jank.cool/what-you-cou...

Penguin Colony refuses to look away from Lovecraft’s bigotry. Here's our review. www.jank.cool/penguin-colo...

Formula 1 is better when your rivals blow bitchy little kiss emojis as they speed pass you. www.jank.cool/new-star-gp-...

"Instead of sucking blood for nutrients, they eat books to absorb their contents." Ashley Cooper tells us what she's reading. www.jank.cool/whats-on-you...

Planet Zoo 2 tries to think about the greater purpose of zoos. It's not always convincing. www.jank.cool/planet-zoo-2...

"Gears is too stupid a fantasy to take seriously. But E-Day tries to take things very seriously indeed. Between every moment of carnage, the viscera-soaked Venga Bus pulls its handbrake to make a pitstop in solemn rumination, as each soldier unpacks some grim trauma." www.jank.cool/gears-of-war...

I love my stupid new chair. www.jank.cool/i-love-my-st...

READ ABOUT VIDEOGAMES, I WON'T ASK AGAIN. www.jank.cool/the-lie-in-37/

The BioShock novel will leave you... [Tim Curry trying not to laugh expression] ... enraptured! www.jank.cool/text-adventu...

Play games this weekend, it's good for your health. www.jank.cool/what-you-cou...

Become a tiny brutalist. www.jank.cool/be-a-tiny-br...

The Cooldown is our new column about shaking the big strategy games tree and seeing what falls out. This time, it's the silly heists of Cyber Knights: Flashpoint. www.jank.cool/how-are-cybe...

There's a J Edgar Hoover simulator. Become a weird, paranoid racist struggling to contain his flamboyant urges while guarding the USA against the agents of immorality. www.jank.cool/be-a-weird-r...

Everyone's busy in this cyberpunk city. But Nivalis is best when you quit your job. www.jank.cool/the-city-of-...

There are many hells. This one's not so bad. www.jank.cool/thousand-hel...

Here's what happened in PC games this week. Some of it might have been good, but no promises. www.jank.cool/jank-mail-oh...

The bargain bucket full of battered PC games died long ago. But you can recreate the digital equivalent by fiddling with sliders on Steam. www.jank.cool/three-for-a-...

Weekends are for playing games, if you can imagine such a thing. www.jank.cool/what-you-cou...

Fwoosh.

"The protagonist drags himself around the countryside in some kind of delirious quest to find his mom, sucks on rocks, all kinds of beautiful things." The creator of Norco tells us what he's reading. www.jank.cool/whats-on-you...

Knytt is the platformer boiled down to its most frictionless essence. It's still a classic. www.jank.cool/knytt-remain...

Have you considered giving six pounds to Jank dot cool? www.jank.cool

I didn't expect THAT in the new Plague Tale game. www.jank.cool/resonance-a-...

VR isn't a hardware problem. www.jank.cool/virtual-real...

This is a good opening prompt from @grahamsmith.bsky.social. For me, the late and lovely James McMahon was that reviewer as I grew up reading NME. He’d give anything punk an extra point and anything prog a tonguelashing. I’d roll my eyes at his judgements but knew where I stood and loved his writing

Stay where you are. Don't move. Read these good articles about videogames. www.jank.cool/the-lie-in-35/

Another seven days have passed at Jank dot cool. The videogames never cease. Here's what we wrote. www.jank.cool/jank-mail-ha...

A wetroidvania, a remaster of a tacky FPS, and an even nerdier Football Manager. These are just some of the games you could play this weekend. www.jank.cool/what-you-cou...

Ace Combat 8 is an exploding parade of implausibilities. It makes me laugh, and that's enough. Our review: www.jank.cool/ace-combat-8...

What forgotten game series would you revive if you were a millionaire? We choose our picks in this week's podcast. www.jank.cool/total-playti...

Nic stops to smell the sweet, rotting roses in Total Warhammer 3's big update. www.jank.cool/you-dont-kno...

Want a 4X without the faff? Take a look back at Stellar Monarch 2. www.jank.cool/emperors-wor...

Stop calling it a 'reset'. It's an amputation. www.jank.cool/stop-calling...

Are videogames trying to make me contemplate my mortality? Fine. I shall. By @jmrivera.bsky.social www.jank.cool/are-videogam...

Derelikt is a love letter to the scary space corridors of the year 2000. www.jank.cool/derelikt-is-...

Here's everything that happened in games this week, except for all the stuff we forgot or don't care about. www.jank.cool/jank-mail-et...

What are you doing this weekend? I'm sleeping for 47 hours and eating dry cereal for the remaining 1. www.jank.cool/what-you-cou...