Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social Federico Finchelstein. Historian & Immigrant. 8 books on fascists & populists. Substack: federicofinchelstein.substack.com
1CC Games @1ccgames.bsky.social Indie arcade game studio from London, UK.
All Gameplay. All the Time™.
https://www.1ccgames.com/
Simogo @simogo.com Lorelei and the Laser Eyes • Sayonara Wild Hearts • SPL-T • The Sailor’s Dream • DEVICE 6 • Year Walk • Beat Sneak Bandit • Bumpy Road • Kosmo Spin
simogo.com
Will Freeman @spadgy.bsky.social Head fulla noise, toys, & hobbies.
🕹️🪀🛹
Freelance game journalist, copywriter, event host, mock reviewer, etc. Edge, The Guardian, BAFTA, PC Gamer, GI, etc.
Yo-yo thrower. Arcade and retro player.
I write about shmups a lot to fund my shmup habit.
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
Double Fine @doublefine.com Official source of Action Posts from Double Fine Productions, creators of Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Broken Age, RAD, and Keeper
https://www.doublefine.com
burst_error @bursterror.bsky.social Retro gaming exploration of gems and jank alike with positive vibes. Currently focusing on video creation and streaming, with some experimental music and game dev on the side.
tldr; ghoulie has game controller
https://linktr.ee/burst_error
H.K // デビル零 #PlayMoreVF @devilrei.bsky.social Heidi Kemps, レゲー姉。
Freelance games writer (PSBlog GameSpot etc.)
I play Virtua Fighter, love retro games, build plamo/resin kits, publish doujinshi, and study fan subcultures.
同人サークルRUNNER AD2088 代表者
Play Taito Games and #PlayMoreVF (Vanessa best main)
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net Indie game studio based in Prague, Czechia. Phonopolis (out now!), Happy Game, Creaks, Pilgrims, Samorost, Machinarium, Botanicula, CHUCHEL http://bit.ly/PhonopolisSteam
Cosmic Division @cosmicdivision.bsky.social Cosmic Division is an independent game studio based in Helsinki, focused on crafting ambitious, atmospheric gameplay-first experiences.
Embrace the Beyond.
Stay tuned. More to follow shortly.
www.cosmicdivision.com
Poulet Volant @pouletvolant3.bsky.social “Ne craignez pas d’atteindre la perfection, vous n’y arriverez jamais.”
Salvador Dalí.
Grand Continent @grandcontinent.bsky.social Il faut construire un débat stratégique, politique et intellectuel à l’échelle pertinente. En librairie : Portrait d'un monde cassé et sur le web chaque jour www.legrandcontinent.eu 
Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social Dad. Making Game Boy games: Roguecraft GB, OutRun GB, Cave Dave, Hero GP, Starseed, Block Droppin, Word Forward + more.
I will pet your dog!
François Heisbourg @fheisbourg.bsky.social Senior adviser (Europe), IISS,
Special adviser, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Tour De Pizza @tourdepizza.bsky.social Working on Woon.
Contact: pizzatowergame@gmail.com
Project Goemon @projectgoemon.bsky.social Documenting Ganbare Goemon history. All Goemon, all the time! **On hiatus**
—Not affiliated to Konami in any way.—
日本語OKでござる。がんばれゴエモン！🍣🌊🎭
https://projectgoemon.wordpress.com/
https://ko-fi.com/projectgoemon
GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com gimme a minute (GSK)
Locomalito @locomalito.com Hobbyist developer of traditional video games: #MalditaCastilla #Hydorah #TheCurseOfIssyos #Gaurodan #AbbayeDesMorts #Darkula #Verminest #8bitKiller and more… locomalito.com
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @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
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Simon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social Author and journalist. Creator of the My Perfect Console podcast. www.simonparkin.com
Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com Indie games since 2014 (Sektori / Day Repeat Day / Barbearian / Drift'n'Drive / etc.), and 13 years at Housemarque before that (Resogun / Outland / Dead Nation / etc.)
https://www.gimblll.com/
Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social I'm a gamedev (he/him)
Working on ARMED DECOBOT | Mechanical Star Astra. Game designer for Gunvein
I also have a game design blog/patreon & make vids :
https://www.patreon.com/c/Boghogooo
https://www.youtube.com/@boghogSTG
Santa Ragione @santaragione.com The Righeira of Video Games. https://www.santaragione.com
Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/rsuwh9HbPJ
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social Digital Editor
PhD in Medieval lit📚
Columnist @ Unwinnable Magazine 💻
Books Editor @ Exploits
Words @ Polygon, Post45, Digital Trends, Edge, etc.✏️
https://emily-price.neocities.org
inquiries: eaprice.work@gmail.com
Pixel a Day @pixeladay.bsky.social Youtube video essays critically analysing games and how they make us feel (youtube.com/pixeladay). Articles published in Uppercut, Into the Spine, Kritiqal, Gamers With Glasses. She/her. Support: patreon.com/pixeladay
Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
@ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social Arcade dork from Edinburgh, Scotland. Playing, learning, scoring, investigating & generally messing about with arcade games of all genres since forever
https://www.youtube.com/c/ohfivepro
Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social https://mossmouth.com/
Niv M. Sultan @nivmsultan.bsky.social videogame critic, other stuff. he/him. nivmsultan.com
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
Panic @panic.com panic.com • Maker of apps (Nova, Prompt, Transmit) • Publisher of Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour: Play With Your Food, Thank Goodness You're Here, Arco, Despelote, Time Flies • Oh, and also @play.date
Gaming Hell @sarahssowertty.bsky.social The 'official' BlueSky of Gaming Hell, the little video game website with guts! Huge guts!! Sarah is our mascot! gaminghell.co.uk
Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social Sweet, round games!
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
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
Steve Norman @stvnorman.bsky.social Musician, writer, retro gamer, fan of horror and the strange. Member of black punk pioneers Robed in Desire. Custodian of Retro Arcadia.
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Autumn Chen @red-autumn.itch.io interactive fiction writer - https://red-autumn.itch.io/
she/her ↙↙↙
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
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
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
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social 80s/90s/00s japanese gamedev interviews | patreon: http://patreon.com/shmuplations
The Stone of Madness @tsomgame.bsky.social From the creators of Blasphemous comes The Stone of Madness - a tactical stealth adventure from @thegamekitchen.com
Available now!
Tristan Mendès France @tmf.bsky.social Observateur de l’extrême. 📍Paris/🇫🇷/🇪🇺/🌍
Podcast : radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/podcasts/complorama
Team : conspiracywatch.info
Me : tristan.pro
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social UX writer. Former games journalist. Views are my own. DFTBA.
https://www.instagram.com/karthupial
Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
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
Links to my books, podcast, and creative output below 👇
https://linktr.ee/darrenhupke
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Michel de Montaigne @montaigne-essais.bsky.social Bot qui sélectionne au hasard des passages des "Essais" de Michel de Montaigne.
Raphaël Glucksmann @raphaelglucksmann.bsky.social Député européen Place Publique, citoyen, essayiste. « Là où croît le péril, croît aussi ce qui sauve » (Hölderlin).
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social News editor at RockPaperShotgun, previously seen at Eurogamer, The Guardian, Wired and Edge - writing about (video)games, art, culture, technology - PhD poetics with a focus on procedural and erasure-based verse. He & him.
Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Occasional game dev. Author of LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING (Boss Fight Books) and editor of FLAXMAN LOW: OCCULT DETECTIVE (MIT Press). He/him. alexanderbjoy.com
Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.com
Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
despelote ⚽ OUT NOW! @despelote.game despelote is a soccer game about people, set in Quito, Ecuador.
made by julian cordero, sebastián valbuena, gabe cuzzillo, ian berman, and niall tessier-lavigne
OUT NOW!
https://despelote.game/
Luis Aguasvivas @aguaspoints.bsky.social Tokyo based 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
Bennett @foddy.net QWOP, Getting Over It, Baby Steps
keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp uvula.jp
GPLaps @gplaps.bsky.social Boston USA - Classic Racing Sims, Vintage Racing, IndyCar, NASCAR, Grassroots to the Big-Leagues
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gplaps
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂
Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia.
I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp ゲームクリエイター：僕の体の70%は映画でできている
Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies.
Conspiracy Watch @conspiration.bsky.social Observatoire du conspirationnisme et des théories du complot.
Let's Learn Japanese! ジャパ日常【 JapaNichijou 】 @japanichijou.bsky.social 一緒に楽しく日本語勉強しよう ⛩🗻👘🍣
Let's play Nihongo!!!
I tweet about Japanese words, sentences or grammar🌸
VRChat Group : https://vrc.group/JPHITS.0893
VRChat World : https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_3551c936-7e77-4152-93ef-69677507bd82/info
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
http://facebook.com/shteyngart
Playdate @play.date A brand new handheld video game system from Panic.
➡️ Available at https://play.date
💬 Need help? Go to https://help.play.date
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
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
Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/kimimi
John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
Paste Games @pastegames.bsky.social Paste Games is at The A.V. Club now.
https://www.avclub.com/games
https://bsky.app/profile/theavclubgames.bsky.social
Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him
NEXT! → PRECOGNITION and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future
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