Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social news @ game developer. words @ new york times, vulture, rolling stone, the verge, wapo, npr, the guardian, vgc, pitchfork, edge, gamespot, av club, game informer, polygon, paste, fanbyte, & more
founder @ into the spine • diego6arguello6@gmail.com • he/him
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT @molleindustria.org Paolo Pedercini - Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
Crystal @crystal.undertow.cards Producer at undertow.cards
Podcasts at audioentropy.com
Writing at gamesline.net
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IndieCade @indiecade.bsky.social Celebrating and supporting international independent game development. Submissions are open! https://indiecade.com/submissions/
Ana D. @pokachee.bsky.social games and internet culture writer at teen vogue, npr, wired, the verge, game informer and lots of other places | 😈🏳️🌈 - looking for work - anadiazwrites@gmail[dot]com
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
GLASSHOUSE - Lockdown CRPG @glasshousecrpg.bsky.social Feudalpunk TB-CRPG set in a lockdown condominium at the dawn of a world war. Developed by FLAT28 Collective.
🌐 STEAM: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2244700/Glasshouse
💬 DISCORD: https://discord.gg/HjPTxkfbCw
📞 WEBSITE: https://glasshousegame.com/
Ted Litchfield @dilfpatrol.bsky.social On my court eunuch grind but I got a grand vizier mindset. Associate editor at PC Gamer. He/him. https://www.pcgamer.com/author/glen-litchfield/
leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social video games & music writer w @48hills.bsky.social , @singlesjukebox.bsky.social and very occasionally @superjumpmagazine.com
i'm just chilling in the panopticon
artemis, evil boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing I write about videogames. Words @ Deleted Saves, startmenu, Superjump, TIER
Big Boss @ Stop Caring
(She/her or they/them)
https://linktr.ee/artemisawormrot
Finn Carney @finnjc.bsky.social Game Dev / Designer
Working on things, consulting on others.
Previously at Nerial, Glow Up Games
Blogging at: https://sandboxdunes.neocities.org/
autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com 🧑💻 freelance culture writer, copy editor
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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
The Indie Game Awards @indiegameawards.gg The IGAs is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the indie scene where developers take center stage.
🗓️ December 2026
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Six One Indie @sixoneindie.com Approachable showcases and means of visibility for indie developers.
📺 Showcase | May 21st, 2026
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Sidequest @sidequestzone.bsky.social The earnest yet somewhat creepy gaming site you didn’t know you were looking for. Pitch us at editors@sidequest.zone and enter THE SIDEQUEST ZONE.
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
Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social News Contributor @ Polygon. Formerly: Associate Editor @ The A.V Club, Assistant Editor @ Paste Magazine. Bylines: GameSpot, Game Informer, Fanbyte, The Gamer, Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, But Why Tho?, etc. TCA member, Rotten Tomato-approved critic. he/him
Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Ogre Run @ogre-run.bsky.social Research: Japanese Role-Playing Games and Otaku Culture
Blog: https://ogrerun.com/
Support: https://www.patreon.com/OgreRun
Contact: OgreRun@protonmail.com
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
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Raw Fury @rawfury.bsky.social Indie Game (un)Publisher | Kingdom👑 Esoteric Ebb 🎲 Moonstone Island💎 Blue Prince 💙 Blake Manor 🏠 Monsters are Coming 👾 Last Man Sitting 🪑
Ela Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social Trans Author of transgressive fiction.
Creator of NEXUS ALPHA and TEETH.
Incomprehensible but the vibes are there.
I like women a normal amount
She/they
pfp from original drawing by wryote
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elajo.itch.io
Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
drop me a line: jriverawrites@proton.me
StefaNonsense @stefanonsense.bsky.social Storyteller. Neurospicy. Techno-Anthropologist. YouTube channel focused on documenting and preserving retro PC gaming culture, from a Eastern European perspective. He/Him
https://www.youtube.com/@StefaNonsense?sub_confirmation=1
Coven of the Chicken Foot - Wishlist Now on Steam! @playwildflower.bsky.social Being created by Wildflower Interactive.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/
https://wildflowerinteractive.substack.com/
Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | Hugo, BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv video essay person and writer and what not, idk I mainly just post about my hyperfixations
http://youtube.com/ladyemilypresents
Volha Kapitonava @volha-kapitonava.bsky.social 🌱 Studio Director @cozy-impact.bsky.social
💻 Producer & Mentor
🎮 Worked on Disco Elysium, Tails Noir, Beatbuddy
I believe in the power of arts&crafts, play, and starting fires.
whimsical she/her ✨
cyril focht @ceciltheawesome.bsky.social 
Confirmed Games Enjoyer @hjrwithpen.bsky.social Staff Writer at PC Gamer
bi/pan / ADHD - all/any pronouns. grab an 8-ball and shake it to pick one, i don't care
Opinions own!
Okay, how the hell do you Post on this thing.
Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social i have a high reading level for my age
Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org Founded by Double Fine and iam8bit. indie games are good.
KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social writer & editor, open for work! kmnelsonmail (at) gmail (dot) com // managing editor, startmenu.co.uk // editor/QA, Interstate 35, @radiantarray.bsky.social // editor, deletedsaves.com // she/they
startmenu @startmenu.bsky.social Gaming from a new direction.
hello [at] startmenu [dot] co [dot] UK.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/startmenu/shop
Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com Failed Media Critic, Washed Up YouTuber, Formally Trained Self-Loather | Professional also-ran | Cringe Elemental | (he/him) | linktr.ee/campster
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social fmr. community at Double Fine Productions | ex journalist (kotaku) | blue rogue | they/she | I write freelance stuff when the mood strikes
D. S. B l a c k 🔪🫀 @deadstar.black écrivain, illustrateur et 3D — univers sombres 🎨🖋️
nautical horror | histfic | warhammer
https://deadstar.black
contact@deadstar.black
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
Santa Ragione @santaragione.com The Righeira of Video Games. https://www.santaragione.com
Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/rsuwh9HbPJ
Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Game Arts @ Pratt Institute
Founder of Essay Games (he/him)
https://essay-games.com/
Bundle of Joy (Narrative Wario Ware Dad-Simulator):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3138370/Bundle_of_Joy/
sweet kerry eleanor @kerryeleanor.blog there's a stone in my pocket and an acorn around my neck
https://kerryeleanor.blog
cohost @leavingthepartypod.bsky.social
Carli Velocci 👽 @carlivelocci.com Nonprofit comms professional by day, freelance writer & editor for video games, tech by night | just some aliens in a suit | They/she
Links: https://linktr.ee/velocciraptor
Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social Since 2002, the ExGS (formerly Experimental Game Workshop) has yearly showcased the work of developers of experimental games at the Game Developers Conference, aiming to highlight works that extend the boundaries of games as a creative medium.
Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social 3D Artist @ Sunset Visitor
Previously 3D Environment Artist @: Giant Squid (Sword of the Sea) & Iridium Studios (People of Note)
Indie Game dev 🎮 | hEDS 🦓| Farming sim enjoyer 👩🌾🐮
Portfolio: https://nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com/
Luis Joshua Gutierrez @imluisgutierrez.bsky.social Freelance Journalist | Words @ GameSpot, IGN, GamesRadar+, Kotaku, Polygon and more
Email: Imluisgutierrez1997@ gmail DOT com
He/Him
Los Angeles - CA
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
The Imaginary Engine Review @tier-review.com A journal of video games criticism co-edited by @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social and @gracemachine.bsky.social. We write from the margins to the margins.
grace @gracemachine.bsky.social Writer, critic, co-editor @tier-review.com
leanne @zweiteturm.bsky.social im a stupid girl. send me back by the first ship.
canmom @canmom.art creatrices-aspirant
incubator of shapes and noises
trans::she/her; anarcho
https://canmom.art
Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social Horse Game Consultant. Game Designer, Producer, Writer. Creator of @themanequest.com and doing marketing at @okomotive.ch and @thoglistudios.com
Based in Zurich, Switzerland http://aliceruppert.ch/ (she/her)
Okomotive @okomotive.ch We are a Swiss game studio crafting atmospheric journeys with meaningful mechanics. Working on PinKeep. Creators of the FAR games and Herdling.
okomotive.ch
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/
Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno
Full bio: https://brunodias.dev/bio/
THESE POSTS ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
Sarah Thwaites @sarahathwaites.bsky.social freelance writer & consultant | seen @ Game Informer, IGN, Polygon, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Edge, Tech Radar, NME + more | she/they | 🇦🇺 in ? ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
サラ スウェイツ
💌 thwaitesannsarah [at] gmail [dot] com
lex luddy goes to gamescom @lexluddy.xyz | EIC at startmenu.co.uk | Gay Idiot | (she/they) | Might have seen me on: Giant Bomb, ShackNews, GamerGuides, Restart, Waypoint, Fanbyte, PLAY Magazine, TheGamer, and PushSquare | Signal Username: BasicalliLexi.57
Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com Writer | Jewish/Latino | MFA Creative Writing | Critical Error Pod | JakeNoseIt ▶️ Twitch | 📩Jake@SteinbergDrift.com | Debut Acquired ✅
Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social Fiction writer/essayist/consultant.
Co-founder/Editor-in-Chief @skyboxcritics.com.
Words: MLR, Purple Wall, ASP, The Rupture, YourTango, Vet. Life.
Games: Rolling Stone, IGN, PC Gamer, Lost in Cult, Digital Trends, Shacknews, Unwinnable, Into the Spine+
Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social Editorial director, @lostincult. Former Edge deputy editor. Author of Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo; Outer Wilds: Design Works; IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Critic (games/film). chris@lostincult.co.uk / letterboxd.com/downaboutit
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter and proud union member at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
Dave Jackson | Tales from the Backlog @realdavejackson.bsky.social He/him. Games critic and Tales from the Backlog podcast host- one game per episode, in depth, no spoilers until we warn you.
Podcast/YouTube- https://linktr.ee/talesfromthebacklog
Support- Patreon.com/realdavejackson
Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Lits Play @litsplaygames.bsky.social Lits Play is an official YouTube channel of Penguin Random House exploring the intersection of gaming and literature.
https://youtube.com/@litsplaygames?feature=shared
Spencer Johnson @mayorhere.bsky.social Freelance writer covering video games & history. Exploring the past through pixels and stories. Contributor to Gamers with Glasses. Check me out on Medium: @spencer2457
Monty Zander @montyzander.bsky.social The abyss looks back.
Video Essayist. He/Him. Host of Lore Dump. Banner by Hotcyder.
https://youtube.com/MontyZander
tangomushi @tangomushi.bsky.social Retro/indie horror streamer and Youtuber, Silent Hill 4 enthusiast, weeb.
日本語もOK!
patreon.com/tangomushi
Kirsty @mertkaykay.bsky.social YouTube sad-sack / linktr.ee/mertkaykay
Contact mertkaykayYT@gmail.com
Katie 🔜 PAX West @katieandcatburger.bsky.social YouTube Videosmith | indie games & video essays | Big Aunt Energy | I'm like a truffle pig for indie games | VTuber too I guess | she/her
https://youtube.com/@KatieAndCatburger
Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social Videos about games, mostly.
http://youtube.com/writingongames
http://patreon.com/writingongames
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Chariot Rider @chariotrider.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 I talk about games sometimes. I also make them. Roguelikes are pretty neat
YouTube
https://youtube.com/@chariot_rider?si=jPKxSki2iyEcrmJ8
Itch
https://chariot-rider.itch.io
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/
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
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
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social Hello I am making music/games like anodyne, angeline era and @danchidays.bsky.social
email analgesicproductions at gmail
blog: https://buttondown.com/melodicambient/
They/them
Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social essayist, critic, journalist, editor
author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
words: Unwinnable, VGC, Polygon, GR+, RPS, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Mothership, Stop Caring, Deleted Saves, Skybox
https://ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/
she/her
Thinky Games @thinkygames.com Discover games you'll love to solve. 🧩 🔎 🗺️
We share new puzzly, problem-solving games.
https://thinkygames.com/
https://thinkygames.com/dailies/
Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
maria @eurothug4000.bsky.social youtube video essay person • voice acts sometimes • 3D models sometimes • streams sometimes • she/her • pfp gd783hhh • contact: eurothug4000@gmail.com
Amelia Tyler @ameliatyler.bsky.social BAFTA nominated voice actress. Roleplayer. Big fan of condiments.
🌑 Narrator (BALDUR'S GATE 3)
🌒 Hecate (HADES 2)
🌓 Wenduag/Nyrissa (PATHFINDER)
🌕 Malady (DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN 2)
🌗 Eleanor/Nyx (WARFRAME)
🌘 Shadwyn (SOLASTA 2)
🌑 ??? 😉
Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social Tiefling from the CZ 😈 Game Analyst 🎮 Looking for D&D and TTRPG inspired friends 🥹
Larian Studios @larianstudios.com The independent award-winning studio behind Baldur's Gate 3 and games in the Divinity universe. Learn more about our upcoming RPG @divinity.com
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Simon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social Author and journalist. Creator of the My Perfect Console podcast. www.simonparkin.com
Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social jennfrank.net ✑ jennfrank.bearblog.dev
Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. Kaboom! Bucket Brigade member since 1982.
alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social no one skeets like gaston, reads bad tweets like gaston
www.alexis.work 🐣 she/her
KRITIQAL @kritiqal.com Indie games publication and podcast network.
kritiqal.com
Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social Video game critic, Editor-at-Large @ Polygon. Formerly Digital Trends, Inverse, Hard Drive
i am never doing “discourse” i do not know what random post you are talking about
Deep Hell Skeleton @deephelldotcom.bsky.social full time skeleton she/her
writing at @deep-hell.com, @startmenu.co.uk
hollydrivethru.carrd.co
will NOT kill you
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Duncan Fyfe @duncanfyfe.net freelance feature writer. video game writer. not duncan't fyfe. duncan fyfe.
duncanfyfe.net
thorhighheels @thorhighheels.bsky.social i talk about games on youtube & make music & games & music for games. composer for Umurangi & MARBLE SOULS & lunacid
https://www.youtube.com/@thorhighheels
https://thorhighheels.bandcamp.com/
https://www.patreon.com/c/thorhighheels
she/they
Luis Aguasvivas @aguaspoints.bsky.social Game Critic - NPR Contributor
Debug Mag Columnist
Member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle - DiGRA
Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
aguaspoints.com
Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social i make experimental games, net-art, software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia…
🔥 http://tetrageddon.com
🦄 http://unicornycopia.com
🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social
🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜
✅ all work completely human made
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro