University of Exeter Press @uexeterpress.bsky.social Dedicated to scholarly book publishing for over fifty years. Internationally recognised for excellence in humanities.
www.exeterpress.co.uk 
VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social The VALUE Foundation brings out the untapped potential of knowledge at play. We work in the crossroads of gaming, academia, and the past. #archaeogaming
Website: https://value-foundation.org/
Blog: https://interactivepasts.com/
Brum Indies @brumindies.bsky.social #Gamedev group based #Birmingham, West Midlands.
Meetups, chat and advice about game dev for anyone in, adjacent, or aspiring to the industry.
Join our discord for chat https://discord.gg/rs3cuhH!
Posts by @tenpn.bsky.social
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Games Transformed @gamestransformed.bsky.social Games Transformed is a volunteer-run organisation celebrating games and radical politics 👾
We run a yearly festival and game jam, bi-weekly board game nights, and a year round programme of events.
linktr.ee/gamestransformed
Nicolas Deneschau @nicozilla.bsky.social Plume d’occasion pour Metal Hurlant | L'Ecran Fantastique | Jeux Video Magazine | Third Editions | PixnLove
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social Envisioning an equitable digital future. Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social.
PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social Culture on computers, mostly | ✍ The Verge, FT, The Ringer, The Nation, ArtReview, Eurogamer, The Guardian, Vulture | ✉️ lewisjohngordon~at~gmail~dot~com | he/him
dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Die Gute Fabrik @gutefabrik.bsky.social An award-winning 🇩🇰 indie game studio, we made ⛵ Saltsea Chronicles, ☄️ Mutazione, 🤼♀️ Sportsfriends, & more. Handcrafted games made by human beings. linktr.ee/gutefabrik
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Katherine Isbister @kcisbister.bsky.social HCI and Games researcher, author of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, and Playful Wearables (Jan 2024--https://tinyurl.com/4z9mjxrm) 
investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social Investigating video games, board games and other types of play in the context of their history, production and socio-cultural value 👾
🌐 http://investigate.games
✉️ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
📍 York St John University, UK
Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) https://bsky.app/profile/ucu.org.uk | she/her | unrepentant dyslexic
UoB Advanced Research Computing delivering BEAR services @uob-bear.bsky.social Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) is a suite of services for researchers (staff and students) including secure data storage, compute power, training, support and Research Software Engineers (RSEs). Oh and we love bears!
The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
ORCID @orcid.org Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social 📖Research: planetary boundaries, apples, orchards, sustainable food systems
🌍Interests: European heatwaves, deep ecology, biodiversity loss, GCR and ER, ecological economics
🚶♂️Outside: Scandinavia, archipelagos, glaciers
🍰Food: lussekatter, semla, tosca
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Fanny Barnabé @ypsenn.bsky.social Full time associate professor at the CRIDS/NADI, University of Namur
Member of the Liège Game Lab, the OMNSH and the LPCM
Research topics: video game narration, détournement, video game tutorials, humor and toxicity on Twitch
🦣 : @ypsenn@ludosphere.fr
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social All things #GameStudies @ HKB Bern
Podcasts:
„Design. Macht. Gesellschaft.“ (https://podcast337600.podigee.io)
"Kritische Controller" (https://kritische-controller.letscast.fm/)
Krach bei DER ATOMAT. (https://deratomat.bandcamp.com/)
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Tomás Grau de Pablos @tomgaar.bsky.social Él. Crítico y profesor de Game Studies y estudios culturales japoneses. https://diariodejuegos.blog
Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
domford.net
Rutxi García @rutxigarcia.bsky.social Profesora en la UCLM. Investigadora en videojuegos, arte, historia y educación. Integrante de @antifaeduca
Lecturer at the UCLM. Video game, Art, History and Education Scholar. Memeber of @antifaeduca
#gamestudies
Hartmut Koenitz @hkoenitz.bsky.social Scholar, designer, artist. Working on interactive digital narrative and how to understand our complex world. Professor and student in the subject of life
President of ARDIN.
book: Understanding
Interactive Digital Narrative (2023): https://amzn.to/3OUEj32
camila freitas @xcafreitasx.bsky.social •Assistant Professor
•PhD
•Media and Game Studies researcher
Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social Associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Research: Human-Computer Interaction, design, AI, art, museum experience design and more. I mostly post in English, occasionally in Norwegian or Danish. He/him.
Politics: Member of @voltdanmark.org
Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales. 
DiGRA España @digraspain.bsky.social Capítulo español de DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association), la asociación académica de investigadores en estudios del juego. Sobre #DiGRAES25: https://digraes2025.wordpress.com/
Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social PhD • Multi-Cultural Video Game Production: Migrant Developers in Japan
Bea Pérez @bpz.bsky.social 
Alberto Porta @aporta.bsky.social Communication Sciences PhD. I'm interested in #GameStudies: ludonarratives, ludomusicology, childhood and moral dilemmas. https://linktr.ee/albertoporta
Johnathan Harrington @johnh18.bsky.social Based in HK, sometimes in MT / CN // asst prof @HKBaptistU on player-based design and board games, I make stuff sometimes too.
Mostly EN || Some MT / 中文
DiGRA Belgium @digrabelgium.bsky.social DiGRA Belgium is the Belgian chapter of the international association for academics (and professionals) who research digital games and associated phenomena.
Posts by @alexvandewalle.bsky.social
Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social Artist, Researcher & Lecturer | Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT | WG1 Lead, Grassroots of Digital Europe (COST) | Co-President, History of Games International Conference (@historyofgames.bsky.social) - kierannolan.com
Lankoski @lankoski.bsky.social Professor, D.Arts. Game researcher.
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal @federicoalvarez.bsky.social Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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@lainenooney.bsky.social
@daveparisi.bsky.social
@liebenwalde.bsky.social
Soraya Murray
Björn-Olav Dozo @bjornolav.bsky.social Liège Game Lab
University of Liège, Belgium
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Applied Game Studies @appliedgames.bsky.social Verein für Angewandte Spieleforschung | Association for Applied Game Studies
👾🎮❤️
Game Studies FR @gamestudiesfr.bsky.social Veille et curation sur les #JeuxVidéo et #GameStudies 🎮
Renata Ntelia (she/her) @renatadrlove.bsky.social Academic in Games and HCI. Mostly interested in love and death. Assistant Professor at University of Lincoln. https://renatantelia.dfs.gr/
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
dennis jansen 🟥 @dennisjansen.bsky.social PhD researcher on play, technology and militarization @ Utrecht University
Mark Kretzschmar @professthor.bsky.social Shelter academic looking for a forever home and family. Writes academic stuff and then random video game blogs. Some of it is good. Speaks golden retriever. https://markkretz.com
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Casual Academic and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports. 
James Sweeting @crazyblue.bsky.social Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth
Principal Investigator for www.vagaboundsresearch.org
PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023)
Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form
www.relativenostalgia.com
www.jsweeting.me
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
🇵🇸 aline job - rebel scum @alinejob.bsky.social Independent Researcher. Game Studies/ Decoloniality/Narrative. Non-binary. ela/elu/she/they
Geoffrey Rockwell @grockwel.bsky.social Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Matt Knutson @mattknutson.bsky.social Assistant professor at UND, director of academic program in esports. Research areas: game studies, gender and sexuality in digital spaces, media temporality, esports.
Pronouns: he/him
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster & Cultural Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Nonadecimal @nonadecimal.com Making social impact games like:
🪐 episodic systemic narrative Jovian Nights
💾 cyberPUNK open world RPG Black Ice
♟️ Forbidden Chess
🦠 cellular automata RTS about feedback loops
nonadecimal.com
Language at Play @languageatplay.de #GameStudies durch die Linse der Sprach-, Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften. Since 2017. #ludolinguistics
https://languageatplay.de/
GER and ENG articles.
Gründer: @indieflock.bsky.social
Pouchmouse @pouchmouse.com Indie gamedev and Moby Dick stan account.
Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, and more recently Edmus - the world’s largest one-finger MMO.
#gamedev #indie
Juan F. Belmonte Ávila @juanbeaumont.bsky.social Cultural, Queer & Game Studies. PhD. Associate Professor (Prof. Contratado Doctor).
Webpage: https://t.co/CecoZJEsAZ
Recent publications: https://shorturl.at/TKFAB ; https://shorturl.at/Gqj6i ; https://shorturl.at/laRGx ; https://shorturl.at/ZGrl9
Sonomio Games @sonomiogames.bsky.social Games. Carefully crafted.
Creators of Lone McLonegan.
Sonomio Games are #IndieGameDev Verónica Rodríguez and Antonio Carlón.
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social Making big waves in Game Studies research, Game Design, and AI from a tiny, Mediterranean island | Check us out: https://www.um.edu.mt/digitalgames/ | Hosts of DiGRA 2025
Antonio César Moreno Cantano @bonzos1979.bsky.social Doctor en Historia Contemporánea. Investigador sobre propaganda, GCE, SGM, cultura digital, política internacional, videojuegos. Profesor de CCSS en Secundaria desde 2006. Antiguo docente en la UCM. Acreditación ANECA a la figura de Profesor Titular.
Whit Pow (they/them) @poww.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social 🤓 Co-Founder @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social; 🎤 Ancient Office Hours podcast; 🇬🇷 Classics PhD student @ Bristol Uni; 🎮 studying transmedia adaptation & classical reception in The Last of Us; ☀️ Luceo Non Uro 🔥; ☕️ tea connoisseur
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Garry Crawford @cultsociologist.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Salford. FAcSS, PFHEA.
Born in Wolverhampton 🐺. Lives in Sale.
Co-lead of #GAMEHEARTS project.
Dr Charlotte Gislam @cgislam.bsky.social Researcher for GAMEHEARTS at The University of Salford. Book lover, knitter, terrible Magic: the Gathering player. (She/her)
Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies.
Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
Hanna Wirman @hwirman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Games and Play Design, Center for Digital Play &
Head of Study Programme of MSc in Games, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Kevin Marín Rubio @kevmarin.bsky.social Predoctoral fellow at @educacioub.bsky.social
Critical pedagogy, video games, utopianism, ecocriticism, action research
https://linktr.ee/k.marin
https://linktr.ee/k.marinrubio (ES)
Henrietta Taylor @hentaylor.bsky.social Words: The Guardian, Observer New Review, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Time Out, Mixmag and more
dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social maker of video game documentaries @noclip, alternative game coverage @noclip_2, selling out with style @SecretTape and F1 chat @shiftf1podcast. Irishman inside an American.
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
Slant @slantmagazine.com Since 2001, we've brought you uncompromising, candid takes on the world of film, music, television, video games, theater, and more.
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
Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social Researcher in Game Studies, Design, AI and Science & Technology Studies. Trying my best to read critical theories. He/Him. Committed to my lifelong duty of no original tweet. https://normand-1024.github.io/