Joe/Michael Cole @anonemusryder.bsky.social 57+
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Darren Hupke @darrenhupke.bsky.social Video game book maker (32 Bit Library, Beat ‘Em Up, Pixels and Polygons Quarterly). Writer. Podcast host (Pixels and Polygons). Owner of @pixelsandpolygons.net
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Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social He/him. Now available: Ys and Other Falcom Classics, and Metal Gear/Silent Hill and Other Konami Classics! Buy our books!: https://amzn.to/4czMqP9 Icon by Rusty Shackles. Patreon: http://patreon.com/hg101
Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com Indie retro gaming book publisher. Video Game Maps series, Pixel Art Metroid, History of Rygar, + more.
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Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com Great books on classic video games.
bossfightbooks.com
Latest:
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Press Run Books @pressrun.bsky.social The dedicated book publishing imprint of Limited Run Games. Not a Wendy's. Official account. 
Jeremy Parish (Radio Edit) @jparish.bsky.social NES Works/Segaiden video and book producer; Retronauts co-host; RGB addict. Did not invent the word "Metroidvania." He/him. Header pic: Sonya Yruel.
Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social Co-host of the Axe of the Blood God RPG podcast! Also writes words for vibeo gaems, boox, and other stuffs. (She/Her)
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A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
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Forgotten Worlds @forgottenworlds.bsky.social Looking back at video game magazines and culture from the 80s and 90s. Check the website for articles / interviews about obscure magazines and retro games… https://www.forgottenworlds.net
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
DidYouKnowGaming @didyouknowgaming.com OFFICIAL account of DidYouKnowGaming. Seen on MTV, Game Informer, Nerdist, IGN & more. Created by @shane.didyouknowgaming.com
Read-Only Memory @readonlymemory.com Publisher of books on videogames and worldbuilding est. 2012
https://readonlymemory.com
https://readonlymemory.com/collections/selects
Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
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Mitch Cramer @heavyeyed.bsky.social media analysis made sad
youtube.com/c/heavyeyed
Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Ninty Media @nintymedia.bsky.social Making print products themed around Nintendo properties! Home of the GAMEBOOK Series and Switch Player Magazine - we also made Ninsight and NintyFresh!
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Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social Artist for:
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2 Old 4 Gaming @2old4gaming.bsky.social Author: “Vita Means Life.” Founder of “RPM - The Unofficial Retro PlayStation Magazine.”
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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 20 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally
Stuart Gipp @stuartgipp.bsky.social British one off of Retronauts. Games writer, etc.
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Merry Hell: merryhellcomic.com
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com Dad, islander, writer, & Hugo winner. Words for WIRED, Kotaku, Vulture, & more. Commodore 1702 enthusiast. he/him.
Rep'd by Eric Smith.
🎧 Co-host of @funfactorpod.com
📚 FIGHT, MAGIC, ITEMS and SUIKODEN 1 & 2
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of MONSTER KIDS ('22), I AM THE NIGHT ('26) and LIFE FINDS A WAY ('28) / Picked Charmander
Sebastian Deken @sebsational.bsky.social I owe you one, so I'm gonna jam up your opera!
Author of FINAL FANTASY VI for @bossfightbooks.com: bit.ly/final-fantasy-vi
Contributor and executive officer @popheist.com
he/him/homo
Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social Co-founder and reporter @aftermath.site. Beats: labor, livestreaming. My book about Twitch, Stream Big, is available now. Formerly: The Washington Post. Send tips to nathan@aftermath.site or nathangrayson.666 on Signal
kelsey lewin @kelslewin.bsky.social “Compact and laser-focused” - The New Yorker.
Video game history enthusiast and Wonderswan evangelist. LFGM⚾️
Co-Owner: @pinkgorillagames.com
Also at @minnmax.com and @pewpewbang.bsky.social
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️🌈
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Debug Magazine @debugmag.com The indie games magazine // Available in print and digital // Order support: help@teamdebug.com
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GameBound @wearegamebound.bsky.social We Are GameBound. We develop, create & publish premium print publications about video games. Home of GENERATIONS, [REDACTED] & [REDACTED]
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social Co-host of Retronauts and Talking Simpsons, acclaimed author of Skeleton Car Wash
David L. Craddock - Author/Filmmaker @davidlcraddock.bsky.social Repped by Rachel Swyer | Author/Director | http://linktr.ee/davidlcraddock | he/him | #BLM #TransLivesMatter
Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social He/him
Brewing new videogame(s)
Host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
Co-founder @furnimatgames.bsky.social
Ex-Director of Publishing @panic.com
Ex-PlayStation, 1UP, etc. etc.
linktr.ee/nsuttner
Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social Writer/Teacher.
Words in Kill Screen, Paste, Men's Health, The Atlantic, Billboard, Variety, Washington Post, Inverse and more.
https://about.me/jonirwinis
Mollie L Patterson @mollipen.bsky.social Writer, designer, podcaster, militant redhead, retro tech/SNK/Mega Drive fangirl, mom to twins.
As seen in GameFan, Play, EGM, etc. Co-author of The EGM Compendium. Once known as shidoshi. And yes, I made that Persona website.
🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇦🔵
mollielpatterson.com
Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social 🏴 / AI 🚫 Award-winning writer of comics + game history books.
Killtopia | BPM | Hello Darkness | Boom! Studios | Titan Comics | Bitmap Books | Agent: Watson Little
Hire me / portfolio: https://www.dave-cook.com
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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social Fungineer
created @zeusuplex.bsky.social
Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social Retro game fan and artist. Creator of Hand-Drawn Game Guides. Making & sharing cool things.
Hagens Alley @hagensalley.bsky.social Creator of dozens of gaming books and publishes them, tequila drinker and tiki lover, podcaster and physical preservationist, Metroidvania and indie games enthusiast. 
VGMuseum (ReyVGM) @vgmuseum.bsky.social Bringing you videogame endings in static form since the 1900s.
www.VGMuseum.com
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Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com Translation, J-Rock, and video games. One Million Power, formerly of mognet.net. 専門はゲームと邦楽ロック. 日本語OK!
https://linktr.ee/bclarkomp
Biz: bclarkomp @ gmail.com
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Wes Fenlon @ TGS @wes.readonlymemo.com Videogame emulation newsletter - readonlymemo.com
PC Gamer magazine
Kat Bailey @katbailey.bsky.social Larian Studios Storytelling Lead. Creator of Axe of the Blood God. Past: IGN News Director, USgamer Editor-in-Chief. #coyi #skol
MORROCCO @mikemorrocco.bsky.social Ringo-nominated artist
Comics, covers, illustration, art direction
https://linktr.ee/mikemorrocco
mikemorrocco@gmail.com
Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social Freelance Writer│Magazine Editor│VG & Anime Historian│🦈 fur │UK│Trans woman she/her│AuDHD │❤️ : @kitnibbles.bsky.social │Business Enq: curicuricreations@protonmail.com
More info in pinned
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Matt Paprocki @mattpaprocki.bsky.social Home media critic @ doblu.com (https://www.patreon.com/DoBlu)
Freelance games journo: Rolling Stone, Playboy, Polygon, IGN, Forbes, and many others. Game collector, home media critic, Godzilla fan, pro wrasslin' devotee.
Project Dolphin @projectdolphin.bsky.social The Official home of “Project Dolphin The History of the GameCube” #Book https://a.co/d/2sohwYz here to talk #GameCube #Nintendo games and History
Darren Doyle (Greyfox Books) @greyfoxbooks.bsky.social Creator of the Coin-Op: The Arcade Guide Series & Atari: a Visual History. Graphic designer and publisher and of course a Retro gaming fanatic.
Buy my books here: http://greyfoxbooks.com
Co-owner and Partner of Bitmap Soft http://bitmapsoft.co.uk
Jon Doyle @jondoyledesign.bsky.social Founded @lostincult.co.uk || Physical media enthusiast || Opinions are my own. Jon@lostincult.co.uk 📧
MrMKL is Melting 🫠 @mrmkl.bsky.social Editor of Trailers.
Guy who won't shut up about his dog or niche fighting games.
Support your Indies!
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https://twitch.tv/mistermkl
Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com Writer of exp. magazine (https://expzine.com). Game developer for hire. He/They.
Every Game I've Finished 14>24 is OUT NOW: amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT Patreon: patreon.com/expzine
Ryan Stevens @ryanstevens.bsky.social Playwright, Director, Freelancer // 1/2 of Nation of Animation // He/They
https://www.ryangstevens.com/
Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social writer
mum of two humans, servant of two cats
https://meganbidmead.com
meganbidmead@proton.me
Micaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz @dykedeitz.bsky.social “A girl from New Jersey, where they were not what you might call beautiful but were magnificent.” - John Saward on James Gandolfini but if it was about me :)
Trans Critic & Editor & Essayist & Author & Poet
✍️ @ Stop Caring, Polygon, Paste, Uppercut, etc
Ethan Hunt 🧊 @ethanhunt.bsky.social SEO & Content Manager. Written for Switch Player Magazine (Ninty Media) + Lost in Cult. Always available to talk about Podracing.
@httpsEthanGames on Twitter
Bobby Jack @bobbyjack.me ✍️ @nintymedia.bsky.social @howtogeek.bsky.social @superjumpmagazine.com
🌍 Norwich, UK
❤️ #nintendo for 30 yrs
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Joe Wescott @joewescott.bsky.social Lead Writer Pokebook Generation I | Social Media for Ninty Media | Complete Nerd | 🏳️🌈
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Joshua 'NantenJex' Goldie @nantenjex.bsky.social Content Creator | Senior Account Manager for Gaming PR | Owner of Source Gaming | Podcast co-host at Nintendormant | Writer & Editor for Ninty Media
DM me for my email.
My work: linktr.ee/joshua.goldie
Jhonatan Carneiro @jhocarneiro.bsky.social - Art & Design Editor
📚 POKÉBOOK Gen 1, NESBOOK, GAMEBOOK Advance, GAMEBOOK Color, GAMEBOOK, amiibook
📰 Ninsight, Switch Player, Ninty Fresh, Vitamag
- Podcaster
🎧 Ultra N Podcast
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Paul Murphy @pmurphy1978.bsky.social Pretends to write. Owner, Ninty Media. Long time Spurs sufferer, amiibo collector, retro Nintendo fanatic. Liable to moan, swear or talk too much about the gym. Sorry.
SEGA-16 @sega-16.bsky.social http://Sega-16.com is the premier resource for articles on Sega's hardware legacy! "Sega Goes Handheld: A History of the Game Gear & Its Games" available now at Amazon!
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Caleb J. Ross @calebjross.com I made a #cardgame you play at the #boulderinggym. https://betabreakgame.com
Wrote a book about What Remains of Edith Finch.
All my socials: https://linktr.ee/calebjross
William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social Freelance Writer - Sci-fi and general nerd noise. I guess I also make games? Sort of?
Currently developing too many things.
Stonevale Secret
A Prayer for Reyfia.
https://wbhwords.wordpress.com/
https://wbhwrites.itch.io/
Contact: wbhwrites@proton.me
Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social Author of VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR
Principal Apps and Games Writer at PCMag
Union guy, Black guy, fake Street Sharks guy
https://www.jordanwminor.com/
dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social video game screenshots //
dvlsblsh.com //
patreon.com/dvlsblsh //
Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com Award-winning game developer. Animated Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, The Last of Us series and more. Wrote GAME ANIM: Video Game Animation Explained. Shipped Apple Vision Pro.
gameanim.com
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
Chris Baker @cbake.bsky.social Games industry veteran (opinions do not reflect employers, present or past)| http://c-bake.com | Hobbyist YouTuber: http://Superhero.VG | Past: Marvel Games, LucasArts, Zen Studios, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Gazillion
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
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Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
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Blair Farrell @blarcade.bsky.social He/him.
Video game historian at comicbookvideogames.com. Author of The Avengers in Video Games and The Web of Spider-Man games. Views are my own. Business inquiries: blairfarrell1984@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/blarcade
Wil Overton @wiloverton.bsky.social Drawer of some silly pictures. Ex of Rare and various other game devs. Helped make the UK's first anime magazine and games mags like Super Play and N64 in ye olden days.
Website - https://wiloverton.com
Shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/SuperKosmikatClub
TangoBunny @tangopunk.com https://bsky.app/profile/tangopunk.com
Author of TangoPunk Gaming Zine - https://www.patreon.com/TangoPunk
( Verification link at https://www.patreon.com/tangopunk/about )
🔞 - I cover video games of all genres, including adult ones.
Kimimi🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com AKA Kerry Brunskill. Hi and/or sorry
Enby They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Freelance writer - hire me!
Contributing writer @pcgamer.com
Come smother yourself in enthusiastic gaming goodness: https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
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Regulus @sirknightbot.bsky.social Illustrator - digital & ink & pixel.
Personal comms currently closed - DM for professional inquiries.
Lee Guille @writeleewrite.bsky.social Communications & PR Director ROCKFISH Games and @everspace.game. Previously Evolve PR, Offworld Industries, Beamdog, Blastworks.
Secret crafter. Seeker of fine microbrew. Someday screenwriter. Probably real. He/Him.
Colin Cummings ✨🎷 @astroscout.ca game & graphic designer, community & marketing manager
community manager | ☔️ soft rains,🧵 silverstring media
marketing manager | 🦎 wdr studios, ⛄ snowman
board member | 👁️🗨️ hand eye society
✨ astroscout.ca | 🎷 boyproblems.ca
toronto | he/they
🏳️⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social (Pronounced WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree
John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social Video Editor + Senior Staff Writer for
Digital Foundry and creator of DF Retro! Open to contract work!
日本語ＯＫ
PlayStationLibrary.com @gameravetv.bsky.social Had a complete US PlayStation 1 library before it was cool. Or Expensive. Variant Hunter from game-rave.com and GameRaveTV.
https://www.playstationlibrary.com (Game-Rave.com)
https://www.youtube.com/gameravetv
bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social 👕 Sniper
📖 Lost In Cult
🎧 Something Rotten
🐶 Regan
https://www.snipershirts.com/
Walt Williams @waltwilliams.bsky.social word person
Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
https://www.mattalt.com/
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/
https://linktr.ee/mattalt
Mike Sholars (Parody Adult) @mikesholars.bsky.social He/Him. Author of PARAPPA THE RAPPER from Boss Fight Books.
Writer. Fiction. Non-fiction. All the things.
Doing his best, considering the circumstances.
Britny Perilli needs coffee @britperilli.bsky.social She/they
Regularly shouts about anime, manga, cozy video games, solo TTRPGs, and books
Entertainment editor @ Insight Editions
All views are mine.
Art by @JennaRogalski
Jordan Rudek @jrudek.bsky.social Writer of A Game In The Life (available almost everywhere). Reviews Editor at Nintendo World Report. Regular host on The Thirsty Mage podcast. College prof by day. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/riskman64
Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.
Jonathan Leung (VGMaps.com / YT: JonLeung1) @vgmaps.bsky.social VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas
Lucas M. Thomas @lucasmthomas.bsky.social Video Game Journalist and Father of Five! Editor-in-Chief of Nintendo Force Magazine, Publisher of Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man & Mega Man: Bot in the Family, President of NF Publishing and Author of The Impact of Iwata. Former Editor-at-Large for IGN.
History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com Melora Hart. Zelda archivist & publication campaigner since 2001. Art, books, manga, the retro & rare. Into Zelda? I've quietly been the source for a lot of what you know. https://historyofhyrule.carrd.co/ artist/animal dork/hiker doin' my nerd shit
Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social Mostly works in marketing. Mostly.
Author of gaming books including Aliens: The Video Games, the first complete history of Alien/s games, available now.
#saintsfc
Goh_billy @gohbilly.bsky.social I wrote a lot of things on Gamefaqs many moons ago. I try to create things to celebrate fighting/video games. This includes collages, crafts, greeting cards, pixel art, and more. Just trying to have fun and spread positivity.
Nintendo Force Magazine @nfpublishing.bsky.social The spiritual successor to Nintendo Power, published continuously ever since NP ended back in 2012! Subscriptions at Patreon.com/NintendoForce and back issue sales at NFMagazine.com. Posts by Lucas M. Thomas, Editor-in-Chief. @lucasmthomas.bsky.social
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Stew Shearer @stewshearer.bsky.social Father, husband, writer, poet, game designer, professional dungeon master and Star Wars-apologist. Also the primary contributor to Bitmap Books’ “N64: a visual compendium” and “Leaps+Bounds.”
Check out my work at: https://side-quest.ghost.io/