Nadja Thiessen @nadjathiessen.bsky.social Historikerin in der Katastrophen-, Stadt- und Infrastrukturforschung 🌊🏬
bei @emergencity.de & @machtgeschichte.bsky.social an der @tuda.bsky.social
hier privat | sie/ihr
@gamerausch.bsky.social @gamerausch.bsky.social Cinegaming collective from Berlin. Curated monthly events, featuring cinematic games, innovative storytelling and interactive experiences on the big screen.
Spielmagazin @spielmag.de Nur ein weiteres Magazin über Spiele von gestern, heute und morgen. https://pixlink.eu/@spielmag
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Johannes Alvarez @jominathor.bsky.social Popkultur und Gesellschaft | Soziologie und Literaturwissenschaften | Wissenschaftlicher Volontär | Newsletter: https://mediengruebelkiste.de | Blog: https://crossmediaculture.de | Literaturpodcast: instagram.com/im_blaetterwald_podcast | he/him
Martin Puppe @martinpuppe.bsky.social Games, Tech, Medien & Basketball | PR für den game-Verband | hier privat 
SPIELKRITIK.com @spielkritik.bsky.social Der Bluesky-Account von SPIELKRITIK.com. Blog für Videospielkultur. Seit 2016 Spiele-Analysen, Retro-Kritiken, Game Studies, Game History und mehr.
Hier schreibt Sylvio. Chefgeneral SPIELKRITIK. Ex-Redakteur GAIN Magazin. Religionswissenschaftler.
Ben @gamepsychologe.bsky.social Games & Psychology | Dr. phil. in Psychology | Consultant, Speaker, Lecturer
https://behind-the-screens.de
Stefan Berendes @schreppybroepke.bsky.social Media Educator, festival planner (for the "Game Days" in Lower Saxony, Germany), amateur game designer, nerd. Mostly here to talk about video games. He/him
linktr.ee/schreppybroepke
Wolf_Hoi @wolfhoi.bsky.social Game Studies || Psychology || Digital Play Enthusiast
Master's degree programme Game Studies and Engineering, Writer & Mental Health Advocate. Accessibility matters. "Retro can be fun!"
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
Christian Albustin @calbustin.bsky.social Data-Journalist, Gamer, Cook, studied food and nutrition science. Last game: Pragmata. Current game: The Sinking City 2. https://albustin.substack.com/
Ariane Bibel @arianekonzepte.bsky.social Kommunikations- & Medienwissenschaftlerin aus Mannheim 👋 Media & Communication Science ◾ Konzepterin i. Gr.◾ Informationsarchitektur ◾ Kuratorin @medienfeed.de ◾ Marketing-Strategien für Technik, Deep Tech, Ingenieur, Forschung
Judith Ackermann @jiutha.bsky.social Professorin für Digitale Medien und Performance an der FH Potsdam
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
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
ZeMKI @zemki.bsky.social Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- & Informationsforschung, Universität Bremen | Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen https://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de
IASGAR @iasgar.bsky.social
The International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religion aims at advancing scholarly research on the interrelation of video gaming and value formations.
https://iasgar.uni-bremen.de/
Nico Nolden @niconolden.bsky.social Mit vollem Herzen in #PublicHistory für #Medienkompetenz und #Digitalisierung einer offenen und pluralistischen Gesellschaft.
#DigitaleSpiele #VR #AR #XR
Felix Zimmermann @felixfelixson.bsky.social Program Manager for Games Culture, Civic Education & Extremism @bpb (Federal Agency for Civic Education) | Dr. phil. | Member @AKGWDS | Public Historian
gamevironments @gamevironments.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal on games/gaming related to culture and society*
Official journal of IASGAR
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments
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
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/)
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Aurelia Brandenburg @hekabeohnename.bsky.social Historian somewhere between Game Studies, Gender Studies and Digital Humanities. | Doing a PhD about German Games Journalism 1980-2000 @chludens.bsky.social | Board Member @akgwds.bsky.social | http://aureliabrandenburg.de/links | she/her
Carolin Puckhaber @caroleinx.bsky.social She/Her
Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie, Irgendwas mit (Nicht-)Religion, Gaming & Populärkultur | Gründungsmitglied der @ludobande.bsky.social
Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social Futures historian & media archaeologist @ Uni Köln ~ @akgwds.bsky.social ~ er || they ~ writes in EN & DE ~ http://www.jacob-birken.de ~ GLHF (◔◡◔✿)
Natalie Denk @nataliedenk.bsky.social 👾 Game-based Education | Applied Game Studies | Educational Game Design | Project Manager @ Three Coins 👾
Andreas Inderwildi @mashxtomuse.bsky.social Writer, medievalist & game critic, seen @ Eurogamer, RPS, KotakuUK, Edge, Wireframe &c. Author of the upcoming book Mundaun: Design Works www.lostincult.co.uk/mundaun. Writes stuff at www.mashxtomuse.com. he/him
Angelika Beranek @aberanek.bsky.social Professorin Hochschule München
#digitalisierung #sozialeArbeit #Medienpädagogik #Jugendarbeit
Stefan Köhler @fnwdhs.bsky.social Working at/bridging the intersections of #culturalscience, #gamestudies (expert on game #modding), #gamedevelopment (#narrativedesign) and #playfullearning in #education (as a #teacher and #lecturer)
Boardgame Historian @boardgamehisto.bsky.social We're a group of scientists exploring #history and #society in and of #boardgames. www.boardgamehistorian.de
🇩🇪/🇬🇧 join our research!
#publichistory | an der Tastatur: Lukas Boch
Ronja Weidemann @ronjaweidemann.bsky.social Doktorandin SFB 1567 Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Game Studies | Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft | M.A. Medienkulturanalyse
𝓗𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓲𝓷 𝓜𝓸𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓭𝔃𝓪𝓭𝓮 🇪🇺 @mohammadzade.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Literary Studies | Horror Studies | Game Studies | English Teacher | Writer/Poet | Musician | Spouse: @najjarmansoor.bsky.social
Kai Matuszkiewicz @kaimatuszkiewicz.bsky.social Media Studies | Digital Humanities | Open Science | Game Studies
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-8160
FID Media: https://fid-media.de
Open Media Studies Blog: https://mediastudies.hypotheses.org
Simon Spiegel @simifilm.bsky.social Film scholar, science fiction expert, utopian, Simpsons aficionado chocolate connaisseur. https://www.simifilm.ch
Thomas Spies @digital-stranger.bsky.social Critical Game Studies (Ph.D.) | Co-Editor of 'Spiel*Kritik: Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus' | Organizer of 'Let's Play Critical' | Part of the media artist formation K.o.Z. | Virtual Photography
https://thomspies.net/
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Florian Zandt @zandterbird.de Redakteur bei t3n. Macht Debuff und Lost Levels. Tech, Netzkultur, Musik. | He/him
Tobias Unterhuber @letobili.bsky.social Post-Doc Uni Innsbruck// Media Culture Studies / Game Studies / Gender Studies / German Literature // Foucauldian // Co-Editor-in-Chief PAIDIA // Editor ZfF // Board Bember AKGWDS
Valentina Birke @violencia.bsky.social She/her
Director Indie Arena Booth.
Selection committee WINGS.
I'm funnier than you.
Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social Serving the video game industry through breaking news, insight on game industry trends, expert advice & resources, and more.
Press requests: news@gamedeveloper.com
Tips: tips@gamedeveloper.com
Dom Schott @domschott.bsky.social Freier Journalist, Ex-Archäologe, Katermitbewohner. Mein Podcast: OK COOL.
Pascal Wagner @indieflock.bsky.social Gaming Linguist, Games Industry Journalist | makes @gamesmarket.global | pascal.wagner@gamesmarket.global | Signal: pascalw.47
GER/ENG, er/he/him
#GameStudies: languageatplay.de
Bylines: IGN Germany, GAIN, Unwinnable, Superlevel, bpb, Polyneux & more
L_capitana @lindabreitlauch.bsky.social Erste Professorin für Game Design. 🌻
Hier privat. https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/linda-breitlauch-akademische-karriere-durchgespielt-dlf-kultur-0cef1b77-100.html
Christian Huberts @mightykuwi.bsky.social Ein mächtiger™ Kulturwissenschaftler! / A mighty™ Cultural Scientist!
gamescom dev @gamescomdev.bsky.social 🌍 gamescom dev - hub for the global game development community
🎮 Twitch shows, podcasts & community networking all year
Stay Forever Podcast @stayforever.de Wir machen einen Podcast über Retrogames.
www.stayforever.de
game – Verband der deutschen Games-Branche e.V. @gameverband.bsky.social Wir sind der Verband der deutschen Games-Branche. Unsere Mitglieder bilden das gesamte Games-Ökosystem ab, von Entwicklungs-Studios und Publishern bis hin zu E-Sport-Veranstaltern, Bildungseinrichtungen oder Institutionen.
Robert Glashüttner @robertglashuettner.bsky.social Game culture journalist ✍️ Radio person 📻 Presenter 🎙️ Researcher 🧐 Pinball enthusiast 🪩 Pac-Man runner-up 🟡 Indie- & retrogames celebrator 👾
• Podcast 💬: sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/fm4-game-podcast
• Pinball ⚪: https://TheBallisWild.net
Vienna, Austria
@wurzelbier.bsky.social @wurzelbier.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Trainer.
Co-Autor "Die Peter Thiel-Story" & "Die OpenAI-Story" 🎧
Lena Falkenhagen @lenafalkenhagen.bsky.social Novelist, game narrative designer, storyteller, world builder. Prof @HBK Essen.
Chair woman German Writer's Association Verband deutscher Schriftsteller*innen.
Pics: Catrin G. Ponciano
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
AG Games der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft @gfmgames.bsky.social Interdisziplinäre Gruppe von Forscher*innen inkl. Studierende zum Thema #gamestudies.
Posts von @sebomat.bsky.social
#gamedev #mediastudies #indiedev
https://ag-games.de/
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social _Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU)
_PhD Triforce Holder
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
GamesWirtschaft @gameswirtschaft.bsky.social Nachrichtenmagazin der Gameswirtschaft im deutschsprachigen Raum / Exclusive insights of German games market / www.gameswirtschaft.de
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/
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
Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia) @chludens.bsky.social SNF-Sinergia-Project "Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000." (HKB /UNIBE/UNIL/ZHDK) Posts by Eugen Pfister
chludens.hypotheses.org
chludens.ch
LudoBande @ludobande.bsky.social GameStudies-Netzwerk für Young Academics
Linktree: https://paths.to/ludobande 
Behind the Screens @behindthescreens.bsky.social Psychologie & Games. Mental Health in Games und ein psychologischer Blick auf Spielverhalten. Alle 14 Tage neuer Podcast. https://behind-the-screens.de
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
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
PAIDIA - Zeitschrift für Computerspielforschung @paidia.bsky.social www.paidia.de
PAIDIA ist ein medien-kulturwissenschaftliches eJournal für (Computer-)Spielforschung [de/en] und ein wichtiges Publikationsorgan für die Game Studies im DACH-Raum.
Ludomusicology Research Group @ludomusicology.bsky.social The Ludomusicology Research Group. Interested in #gamemusic, #vgm, #gameaudio? This is your place! #Gamedev & #gamestudies welcome! Tweets mostly by M. Fritsch.
www.ludomusicology.org
www.sssmg.org
Applied Game Studies @appliedgames.bsky.social Verein für Angewandte Spieleforschung | Association for Applied Game Studies
👾🎮❤️
Forschungsgemeinschaft VideospielMusikWissenschaft @fvmw.bsky.social Herzlich Willkommen bei der FVMW!
Hier posten wir Neuigkeiten rund um Videospielmusikwissenschaft und Updates zu neuen Inhalten auf unserer Webseite.
https://videospielmusikwissenschaft.de
Der Deutsche Computerspielpreis | Der DCP @derdcp.bsky.social 🥇 🎮 🏆
Der Deutsche Computerspielpreis 2026 wurde am 29. April 2026 in München verliehen. #derDCP
AKGWDS @akgwds.bsky.social Arbeitskreis Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele | https://akgwds.de | CI by Alina Menten
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