This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: aparrish@kotaku.com
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
David Bushell 🪿 @dbushell.com Founder of valleyfold.co.uk – Web Developer, Designer, Blogger, UK – dbushell.com – no AI
⚓ https://dbushell.com
⚓ https://valleyfold.co.uk
Evan You @evanyou.me Husband / Father of two / Founder voidzero.dev / Creator @vuejs.org & @vite.dev
Marc-Uwe Kling @marcuwekling.bsky.social 
Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com The latest Nintendo Switch news, reviews and videos. We are the most visited #Nintendo site in the world. DMs open. #NintendoSwitch #Switch #3DS
www.nintendolife.com
Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com Video game critic. Final Boss @RPGSite.net & @Respec.net. Ronin writer & consultant. Formerly Editor-at-large for Eurogamer/VG247.
Love: Arcade cabs, Watches, Dogs, Whisky, fighting games, RPGs, NFL (Rams), Lego, Poker & Blackjack
www.donaldson.zone
HDKirin @ PAX West @hdkirin.bsky.social Senior Staff Writer for RPG Site. Anime & Video Game Enthusiast. Opinions are my own & not those of my employer. Email: josh@rpgsite.net
RPG Site @rpgsite.net We are RPGSite.net. We're the #1 destination for role-playing video game fans & nerds. We love RPGs, so we report on them all day every day. Expect critique, news, reviews, guides, trivia & more! Operated by Double Black Ltd.
Mikhail @va11halla.bsky.social Words about games on multiple platforms with a handheld focus and some good coffee on the side. Find my work on RPG Site, TouchArcade, Into The Spine, Nintendo Insider, Steam Deck HQ, Respec, & more. Avatar by Kiri from Sukeban Games.
Opinions my own.
Sebastian König @sebastiankoenig.bsky.social Illustrator and Designer from Hamburg, Germany
Philip Lindeman @philiplindeman.bsky.social Illustrator from Utrecht, The Netherlands
www.philiplindeman.com
Ruben 🦚🐙🇦🇺🇸🇬 @rubenerd.bsky.social Angmoh weeb travelling coffee IaaS architect guy (lah). ☕️ Run BSD. I’m mostly on Mastodon, but hi! 👋
Was @Rubenerd on Twitter. They suspended me for linking here!
Blog: rubenerd.com
Mastodon: bsd.network/@rubenerd
Code: codeberg.org/rubenerd
It's Nice That @its-nice-that.bsky.social Inspiring Creativity since 2007 👌
We champion work across graphic design, illustration, photography, animation, and more
Header image artwork by Paola Saliby
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Alex Kuhn 🦇 Comms Open @alexkuhn.bsky.social 🦇 Dark Fantasy Artist
📧 alexander.kuhn.illustration@gmail.com
No AI.
alexkuhndigitalart.com
A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social Mecha, low poly 3D, models/figures, invertebrates, space, horror, and other self-indulgences posted here. 18+ only/Minors DNI
queer, marxist, robot of many trades master of none
they/them
AV: Malice@Doll
Header: My own art
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz ⚡ PR, copywriting, and design for Devolver Digital
⚡ Writer, photographer, artist, etc.
⚡ Author of Perfect Organism: A Celebration of Alien: Isolation
⚡ Glaswegian
📍 Yorkshire, UK
🔗 www.ultrabrilliant.xyz
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
keysmashbandit @keysmashbandit.bsky.social first thing you need to know about me is that on an animal level i still believe 30 is half of 100
özge inan @oezgeinan.bsky.social lassen sie mich durch ich bin die vierte gewalt | "die dichterin" 31.07.26 piper verlag | journalistin | anfragen: kontakt@oezgeinan.de
Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and @amityvilleville.bsky.social. I used to make Reply All. One day I will be in the ground hopefully flowers will grow out of me.
PJ Vogt @pjvogt.bsky.social Very rarely here.
You can reach me at pjvogt85@gmail.com
Host, Search Engine podcast.
Some of our best episodes are here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5S9VpzSJa8HVGG9H0EmkmJ?si=eeb6813f57ea4218
Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social Director 18F, formerly Sunlight Foundation
Rémi @exomel.com 👋 Bonjour, I’m Rémi. I enjoy 🏗 open-source code, 🥪 sandwiches, 🍺 craft beer, 👨👩👧 my family, 🎧 hip-hop, ⛲ Wikipedia… and emojis.
Roni Kaufman @ronikaufman.bsky.social Programmer & artist 🎨 he/him
https://ronikaufman.github.io/
Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net Senior Visual Data Journalist at @zeit.de. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper.de. Former @nytimes.com graphics editor #datajournalism #graphics #maps #cartography #dataviz (he/him)
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
janus🎭 @repligate.bsky.social 🔄Bing Orchestrator🔄
🌎🌍🌏🌐🌎🌍🌏🌐🌏🌏
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Rob Caporetto @robcap.bsky.social Australian, 40-something (he/him) coder of Games & Stuff until the Industry took an Arrow to the Knee.
Looking for what's next, whilst making vids on old games & more.
Here for connections, not shitposts.
Check it all out: linktr.ee/hellfire64
Vivian Lee @vivianlee.bsky.social Senior editor at Little, Brown
Not a girl, not yet a dad
Instagram: vleebooks
vivianwmlee.com
Kurt Kohlstedt @kurtkohlstedt.bsky.social Skeptical urbanist & design journalist @ 99% Invisible || NYT Best Seller: http://99pi.org/book || M. Arch || Visual musings @ http://instagram.com/kurtkohlstedt 🦝 More @ kurtkohlstedt.com
Sam Lake @samlakewrites.bsky.social Writer. Director. BAFTA nominated actor.
Max Payne. Alan Wake. Quantum Break. Control.
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
Daniel Albu 🕹️ (Tech Talk with Daniel Albu) @danielalbu.bsky.social • Freelance #GameDev 🎮
• Host of 'Tech Talk with Daniel Albu' 📼
• Co-producer & co-host of 'Conversations with Curtis' 📼
🎙️ Tech Talk with Daniel Albu: https://www.youtube.com/@danielalbu
💻 Website: www.danielalbu.com
Game Loaded @gameloaded.bsky.social - Gaming history enthusiast and PC big box games collector.
- RELOADED retro gaming zine
#RetroGames #RetroGaming #BigBoxGames #GamingHistory
☛ instagram.com/game_loaded
☛ gameloadedmuseum.wordpress.com
☛ youtube.com/channel/UCXwvo5DlDX4CvqJQwJZVsdg
molly fairhurst @mollyf.bsky.social artist/ illustrator
UK mollyfairhurst.com
etsy.com/uk/shop/mollyfairhurstshop
job enquiries please e-mail Anja Haas hello@pudelunlimited.com
dj lotti @djlotti.bsky.social 21, zerspanungsmechanikerin
ruth__lol @ruthlol.bsky.social so geschmacklos wie die realität
✨🫡🚨✨
zgzgnfmnn @zgzgnfmnn.bsky.social ich lüge viel im internet
instagram.com/zgzgnfmnn
Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com Indie developer and educator. Blogging at http://joshwcomeau.com.
Previously at DigitalOcean, Khan Academy. Taught at Concordia Bootcamps.
He/Him 🌈
zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social deogie comics @deogie.bsky.social
pervis comics @pervis.bsky.social
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
Website - hausofdecline.ca
Patreon - http://patreon.com/hausofdecline
Store - https://hausofdecline.bigcartel.com/
Boing @boingbln.bsky.social Artist and Illustrator
Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com Designer & developer. Creator of Kirby CMS
@kateboss5000.bsky.social @kateboss5000.bsky.social Halb Mensch halb Meme halb tot durch eine Eigenbedarfskündigung
https://kateboss5000.neocities.org
linuzifer @linuzifer.bsky.social Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.
@linuzifer@23.social
http://linus-neumann.de
Hard Drive @hard-drive.net We are Hard Drive. Bum ba dum bum bum bum bum
Moritz Post @moritzpost.bsky.social Autor, Journalist, Karikaturist. Kocht Kaffee bei TITANIC.
Linus Tech Tips @linusmediagroup.com The official Bluesky of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel.
Kurt Prödel @kurtproedel.bsky.social Mein Debüt Roman KLAPPER ist jetzt erhältlich !!! ❤️👇
https://linktr.ee/kurtproedel
Micky Beisenherz @mickybeisenherz.bsky.social interessierter Laie
Will Buxton @wbuxtonofficial.bsky.social Broadcaster, NYT Best Selling Author and voice artist.
Officer Roland @realkeeparoland.bsky.social Vom Leben gebeutelt, optisch aber ok
Aiko Kempen @xjochenx.bsky.social Investigative Journalist | Señor Reporter @FragDenStaat.de | „Wachhund der Öffentlichkeit“ (OLG Köln) | Threema TXU9X5FF | PGP 1657377DB42FFCB | TLGRM http://t.me/Xjochen
Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social autistic author-illustrator 🌿 (she/her) https://linktr.ee/vanessagillings
Caprese Boi @palantirtech.bsky.social creative. editorial. consultant. cinematics. game events. current: redacted - spencenicholson.com
Tristan Herold @dertristan1.bsky.social spicy creator
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Markus Beckedahl @beckedahl.eurosky.social Fighting for your digital rights. Co-Founder & Head of Curation @re-publica.com. Now Founder of @digitalrechte.bsky.social. Berlin. In a past life Founder of netzpolitik.org. Newsletter @ digitalpolitik.de
Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social Writer / Executive Producer at Rick & Morty.
Podcast: Get Played
Comedy: Whose Line is it Anyway, Hebecky Drysbell at UCBLA.
Alum: SNL, Creepshow, Eric Andre Show, Twilight Zone.
She/Her/It
Klaas Heufer-Umlauf @damitdasklaasturbo.bsky.social Ententrainer
Emily Young @eayoung.net All-tech enthusiast and total retro/Linux geek | She/Her 🏳️⚧️ | Newfoundlander | Former host/writer @linusmediagroup.com
📺 YouTube
youtube.com/@emily-young
🐧 Twitter
twitter.com/EmilyAYoung1
🕸️ Fediverse
tech.lgbt/@emilyyoung
Paul Gäbler @paulgaebler.bsky.social Freier Journalist // schreibt und fotografiert für Spiegel, Zeit und den Aufbau-Verlag // Host @respublicapodcast // Ausbildung @reportageschule
Hanna Herbst @hhumorlos.bsky.social Wär lieber in einer einsamen Hütte als hier | ZDF Magazin Royale
Johannes Runge @johannesrunge.bsky.social Freier Journalist
Team Recherche
NDR Recherche
ausgebildet @DJS
Video Game Art Archive @gameartarchive.bsky.social The Video Game Art Archive is dedicated to scanning and extracting classic video game artwork at the best resolutions possible!
Gene Park @gene.meme Washington Post culture critic | Pacific Roots | DC Rock
mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social ૮ • ﻌ - ა woman making drawings and videos online
videos ⭐️ youtube.com/mothcub
streams 💕 twitch.tv/mothcub_
website 🌸 mothcub.neocities.org
extras 🌟 patreon.com/mothcub
Markus Hennig @hennigofficial.bsky.social Autor | TV | Online | Print | Dies | Das | jetzt kommt noch ein Strich |
natandrewson @natandrewson.bsky.social Illustrator, Comic Artist, Riso Printmaker.
https://natalie-andrewson.com/Links
Buttzilla @buttzilla.bsky.social Professional Computer Toucher. I make videogames I guess. he/him Co-host of Animorphing Time and the Hatespeech Podcast
Thomas Schmitt @schmitti.bsky.social Florida TV
Baywatch Berlin
2 Katzen
0 Echsen
Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com label = designer, developer, blogger
homepage = https://www.jim-nielsen.com
weblog = https://blog.jim-nielsen.com
link blog = https://notes.jim-nielsen.com
alt social = https://mastodon.social/@jimniels
Pierre Mortel @pierremortel.bsky.social I make comics and write stories
Lorena Jaume-Palasí @lopalasi.bsky.social Founder The Ethical Tech Society | AlgorithmWatch | IGF Academy I @lopalasi@dair-community.social on Mastodon
Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com Father, author, developer, maker. Sometimes called "an inflammatory enigma". #stl #ansible #k8s #raspberrypi #mac #crohns www.jeffgeerling.com
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
nolen @itseieio.bsky.social the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
miguel robitzky @miguelrausa.bsky.social autor zdf magazin royale
podcast too many tabs
graffitisprüher und witzskulpturbauer
he/him 
Kirk Hamilton @kirkhamilton.com I make music and podcasts. Host of Strong Songs 🎶 and Triple Click 👾
strongsongspodcast.com
tripleclickpodcast.com
KirksNotes.com
Profile pic: Alicia J. Rose
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
Caro Worbs @caroworbs.bsky.social autorin & sprecherin // zdf magazin royale
podcast "too many tabs" // ndr
she/her
CustardFist @custardfist.bsky.social I’m a cartoonist from the Netherlands, making mostly silly and unwholesome comics. 😎
https://custardfist.com
Anne Hackaway @sgorr.bsky.social “I’m never gonna die!” — Kerr Smith | Read my work on thespool.net
Neal Agarwal @neal.fun making neal.fun
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social @FragDenStaat.de, @Freiheitsfonds.de
Galmesh Rosewood @galmeshrosewood.bsky.social Artist, sometimes NSFW.
Team Baguette
English/French
Prints available
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/galmeshrosewood/
https://www.patreon.com/galmeshrosewood
https://ko-fi.com/galmeshrosewood
Tom Scott @tomscott.com I make things. They’ll probably come back to haunt me in a few years’ time. https://www.tomscott.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
Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social 🟦 Pixel artist
💻 Software: Aseprite / Pixquare (30% off code tofu)
🎮 Worked on Vampire Survivors, MARVEL Cosmic Invasion, Barbie Rewind
💜 she/her
Contact:
💌 tofupixelart@gmail.com
🎨 https://tofupixel.carrd.co/
The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social Hey I’m Neil kohney the other end comics boy
he/him
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social Videos. Educational? Not really. Funny? Eh.
"the Chappell Roan of educational YouTube"
youtube.com/@captaindisillusion
patreon.com/captaindisillusion
https://go.nebula.tv/captaindisillusion
Arnold Schwarzenegger @schwarzenegger.bsky.social Bodybuilder. Conan. Terminator. Former Governor. I killed the Predator. I told you I’d be back. Join my positive corner of the internet - Arnold’s Pump Club.