David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University
New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
Future Dr. V @vgtxresearch.bsky.social Founder of VGTx Research Initiative, Graduate Video Game Psych researcher and lifelong gamer✨
@vgtxresearch on twitch, YouTube, & IG 🎮🧠💕
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
No Proscenium @noproscenium.com Anything But The Usual. 🤯
Your guide to immersive events & experiences since 2014.
🧐Reviews. 🎧Podcasts. ✉️Newsletters & more.
👇🏼Discover your next adventure now.
Karnak, Indexed Word Monster @karnak.bsky.social Video (Board, Card, &Tabletop) game player, husband, BS History, MA Humanities, Soon to be MLIS, Library Associate. GWJer, He/Him, BLM, Trans Rights
Amanda Jones-Rincon, PhD @jonesrincon.bsky.social University Lecturer - Social & Media Psychology PhD focusing on gaming and cognition - Speedrunner under @drmustachecat on Twitch. Cross-Stitches on commission ❤️ Poly Queer/Non-Binary - they/them
litotic (elise) @litotic.bsky.social She/They. Vietnamese descent, multilingual, multidisciplinary. Game dev, lecturer, narrative designer & writer (Ubisoft, ZA/UM) etc.
Humanities PhD, games research-creation
I ❤️ intersectionality, crafting things humanely (no GenAI)
pic/banner done by me
Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social Game audio professor and radio host (Monday 7:00 PM, wkar.org) at Michigan State. Musicology via game studies. Go green! Thompson.RyanC@gmail.com
Watch me and my best friends stream Thursday evenings 9-11 PM Eastern at Twitch.tv/BardicKnowledge
Indigitalformat @indigitalformat.bsky.social ACT ORGANIZE RESIST
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Take Action! Practice Nonviolence!
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Kenzie Gordon 🍉 @kenzitronic.bsky.social Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme.
She/her
andrea braithwaite @ahbraithwaite.bsky.social Nancy Drew nerd, pop culture prof, bookaholic.
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Marc Lajeunesse @marclaj.bsky.social Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though!
krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who...
connectingtogame.ca
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Old DeuTaranomy🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com Executive Director @TakeThis.org | Maker of strange things | Swears too much. Cat pics++. she/they
Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social He/him. Extremism researcher in Canada. Affiliate cifrs.org. Used to blog & do journalism. Words for gnet-research.org, antihate.ca, insightthreatintel.com, Vice.com, etc. Posts about the Horrors.
Abby Kirby @abbykirby.bsky.social Middle school ELA// MA in Media Studies// Fandom Researcher// Gravity Falls & Psych Fan// Fanfic Enthusiast
they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social creator of Bright(2017) starring will smith and joel edgerton
Raymond Dosono @rjdos1.bsky.social User Researcher formerly Gearbox and Epic Games.
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
A. Cathy Nguyen @anhthu.bsky.social Kyoto ✦ games, tourism, memory ✦ en/de
https://kaydenuen.com/
Department of Media & Information at Michigan State University @mediainfomsu.bsky.social We offer an interdisciplinary and energetic learning environment united by a passion for media and information. In our state-of-the-art labs, we research new avenues of communication technology and computer-centered interaction.
https://mi.msu.edu
noah @crimesnewroman.bsky.social internet man put thing on internet
https://www.youtube.com/@CrimesNewRoman
patreon.com/CrimesNewRoman
Arthurian Legend @cheshirespurr.comfycozygaming.com ✨ Social Media Community Coordinator
✨ Lots of Words: @comfycozygaming.com
✨ Journalist, Editor, PR, Marketing, Community, Things, Stuff
✨ Take This Ambassador
✨ He/Him
✨ Posts are my own
Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social Unreal Bird. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://deans-list.ghost.io/
Principal, Public Circle Research & Consulting
Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press
Senior Fellow, UPitt CTRL
Views my own with apologies to the reader
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Groose The Game Studies Goose @groosethegoose.bsky.social I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
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
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
andrea @asaraviapt.bsky.social ♨︎ building stories & communities @ atrium interactive (indie, AA, AAA and +)
⤷ narrative & comms @ deviant games
⤷ lore & adcopy @ flameborn games
⤷ narrative consulting @ [redacted]
opinions are my own~
https://asaraviapt.wixsite.about/
Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social Creative Director, TPCi. #PokemonEmployee. Author, Design Beyond Devices & Game Development Strategy Guide. Adjunct @ Carnegie Mellon. Ex-Riot Games, Scopely, MSFT, AMZN, EA, Disney. EDS 🥄. Owner of @ideaplatz.com. Ideas my own. 🏠 https://Cherylplatz.com
Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social Trickster disciple. 🦊 Game developer. 🎲️✂ Emeritus data generalist. 📊 Delightfully imperfect. ☁️ Not that kind of doctor. 🎓 [E] Itsatrap 🎮 He/Him
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com Brit in NYC • Game Designer & Engineer • Prof NYU Game Center • Director, NYC Game Design Future Lab • Frmer co-founder/CEO, Glow Up Games • Dr of VR • #blacktranslivesmatter • i share my dreams with ghosts
M. J. Gallagher (Final Fantasy mythology) @mjgallagher.bsky.social I write books about Final Fantasy and mythology/religion. Mythos (FF16), Norse myths in FF7, and Greek myths in FF7 all available NOW on Amazon! 🏴
All links and FF TACTICS book pre-order in pinned post 👇
Teaser connections at #FinalFantasymythology
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Joshua Hood @joshlhood.bsky.social Producer and general contributor to cool games! Ex-Phoenix Labs, Rockstar North, Sony.
Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social 👻 BUY THE GHOSTKEEPER GN!👇
theghostkeeper.carrd.co
Award-winning Comic Artist ✦ Illustrator ✦ Writer ✦ TTRPGer ✦ She/Her 💖💜💙
Rep: Laurel Symonds (KT Lit)
🌎 Portfolio: johannamation.com
Ben @gamepsychologe.bsky.social Games & Psychology | Dr. phil. in Psychology | Consultant, Speaker, Lecturer
https://behind-the-screens.de
Gary Chud - comic writer @garychud.bsky.social Award-winning comic creator | Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time | LEGO comics | Secret Agent Nessie | Co-founder One Shot Studios | Rep’d by Molly at United Agents
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/garychudleigh/death-deserved?ref=5hyb26
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Asocial Giraffe @asocialgiraffe.bsky.social A hand-drawn point-and-click stealth comedy where you help a socially anxious giraffe get through a week of his everyday life. If anyone talks to him, his head will explode.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3071440/A_Week_in_the_Life_of_Asocial_Giraffe/
Jeremy Yanofsky (he/him) @mysterwhy.bsky.social Digital Media Arts Specialist | #EdTech Leader | Instructional Designer | #gbl #gamebasedlearning #playfullearning @ ENGAGE! (youtube.com/ENGAGEshow)
Portfolio: https://jy-creative.weebly.com/about-me.html
Ian Axel Anderson @aanixel.bsky.social Postdoc @ Caltech
Technology researcher, Surfer, Poet
They/he
Seamus Donohue @seamusdonohue.bsky.social I used to make YouTube videos about internet spaceships. I might do so again, someday.
https://www.youtube.com/@SeamusDonohueEVEOnline
Accounts that are primarily pro-Twitler, far-right, or gen-AI are liable to be blocked on sight.
Pronouns: he/him/his
@davetach.bsky.social @davetach.bsky.social 
Aeon Backlash @aeonbackflash.bsky.social 
Hard Drive @hard-drive.net We are Hard Drive. Bum ba dum bum bum bum bum
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social Researcher, UCalgary
PhD, Political Science
Dr. Cronk, Historian of Complaints. I've written a book, The Press Gallery (release TBD).
Headline of the Year! Lots going on.
Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 1-5, 2027, in San Francisco!
Toronto Blue Jays @bluejays.com Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Snapchat and TikTok: @BlueJays
Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com Dad, islander, writer, & Hugo winner. Words for WIRED, Kotaku, Vulture, & more. Commodore 1702 enthusiast. he/him.
Rep'd by Eric Smith.
🎧 Co-host of @funfactorpod.com
📚 FIGHT, MAGIC, ITEMS and SUIKODEN 1 & 2
🛰️ Newsletter: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com
Andreia Gonçalves @andreiag.bsky.social Sr Social Systems Designer at @EA Full Circle, working on @skate. Previously on @PlantsvsZombies. 🇵🇹🇨🇦 she/her. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/andreiagg
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Polaris Game Design @polarisgamedesign.com Solving the toughest problems in game design. Mostly a yearly weekend retreat for professional game designers. https://polarisgamedesign.com/
Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social アンディ•ロビンソン Journalist @videogameschronicle.com | #WHUFC sufferer | Previously: Yooka-Laylee / Impossible Lair writer | Old game mags / CVG | Biz: andy@vgc.gg
Cindy Marie Jenkins (she/her) @cindyoutthinksmdia.bsky.social I grew up between a library and a theater. Now I teach digital literacy through art & open dialogue.
https://patreon.com/OutThinkMedia
Break generational structures this summer:
https://momentumrevolutions.com
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science at CU Boulder. Biker, climber, runner, skier, homebrewer, writer, coder.
email: alex [dot] newhouse [at] colorado [dot] edu
Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Co-Creator of HALT AND CATCH FIRE.
Showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, full season now on AMC+ and SHUDDER.
LANTERNS Season 2.
And I write comic books.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Songs of Healing 🇵🇷 @songsofhealing.bsky.social Boricua music therapist, teacher, and musician ~ violist, singer, and other instruments maybe on projects near you. HealRNG on vgm tracks, SongsOfHealing in most online spaces otherwise
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
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
Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social Exvangelical, atheist, DiY religious studies, cult studies, failed-apocalypse cringe-posting, weird shit, counter-extremism
School of Making Poor Life Choices
Only Slightly Doomed
She/They/bad at gender
My apologies for continuing to be relevant 
Florian Rohde @feraflox.bsky.social Community & Player Support Lead in the gaming industry.
Metalhead, nerd, football & wrestling fan from Germany.
#TallPeopleProblems (6'7'')
Porchdragon @porchdragon.bsky.social Veteran Science Educator & Former NASA HUNCH Mentor | Championing Inquiry-Based, Hands-On STEM Learning
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
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
The Fair Play Collective @fairplaycollective.org Community-funded indie game dev, built on sustainability, transparency, and human-centered values. No crunch. No layoffs. Better games.
Fairplaycollective.org
Want to be involved?
hello@fairplaycollective.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/xqAbRz6HqA
Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
ASPbelong @aspbelong.bsky.social We design collaborative immersive experiences that bring young people together, boosting mental health and sense of belonging ✨
Funded by the EU and UKRI.
https://www.aspbelong.com/
Alykkat @alykkat.bsky.social She/her — Games Marketing & BD Consulting @ideationforge.bsky.social | blog alykkat.com
Andy Zawadzki @andyzawadzki.bsky.social Senior Game Designer @ Raw Power Games
Solo developer on A Bit Dicey
Prev: CDPR, IO Interactive // Board Game Enthusiast
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4551800/A_Bit_Dicey/
batyr Australia @batyraus.bsky.social Australian youth mental health charity
🐘 For-purpose preventative mental health charity
💬 Pronounced 'buh-tier'
🌟 By young people for young people
💙 Peer-to-peer programs, training + workshops
linktr.ee/batyraus
DAAS @aasheim.bsky.social Interactive + Entertainment. Emmy Winner. Found in CA marine layers.
New Thing In Progress
Prev @: Apple, Lucasfilm, Imagineering
GDC Advisory Board Emeritus
Here to amplify others. Random shouts re: games, music, tv/film + sport, dystopia...
Daniel Pietschmann @empi2k.bsky.social Researcher at Institute for Media Research, Chemnitz University of Technology
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Gene Park @gene.meme Washington Post culture critic | Pacific Roots | DC Rock
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Craig Breathnach-Irish Writer for Games and Comic Books(He/Him) @craigbreathnach.bsky.social Creator @wuxiawerewolf.bsky.social
Volunteer @galwaygamejam.bsky.social
Formerly @byowave.bsky.social
Board @imirt.bsky.social
Member @gwuireland.bsky.social
#GamesFromIreland #IrishGames #GamingAccessibility
Dr. Jakin Vela @drjakinvela.com (he/him) Exec. Dir. @IGDA.org | Sociologist | Games, Tech, & Belonging #Quant #Qual #Researcher #Gaymer #GameDev #SingerSongwriter #LGBTQIA #BLM Opinions are my own.
Dr Ian Sturrock @sturrock.bsky.social Researcher into game studies, game histories, motivation for play, ethics of game design, creativity and world-building. Capoeirista, HEMA practitioner, larper, TTRPG designer/publisher. HE teacher and UCU activist but my views represent only me.
The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social 📺 The Rundown with @jeyantvo.bsky.social on @wearetvo.bsky.social
More: https://my.linkpod.site/therundown
Bethesda @bethesda.net The official home for games published by Bethesda: Starfield, DOOM, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Wolfenstein, & more!
e. drake kajioka @3sxp.bsky.social Game designer, research applier, writer, speaker, parent, teacher fan, impatient optimist, sincere shit disturber. Views mine &c. 🎲 they preferred, she accepted. was @3spce/gryphoness on twitter, @edk@mastodon.social.
Lal @lallysup.bsky.social Current Social Worker, former touring merchandise manager, point and shoot camera enthusiast. Sometimes I write about drugs and video games. Harm Reduction advocate he/him. Freelance words: Uppercut, Startmenu, Hard drive
Dr. Andy Wilson @combatwombat1.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island studying political discourse and memetic communication in online gaming communities| he/him/his
ThoughtBubble (Jon) @thoughtbubbleyt.bsky.social In my Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Arc | He/Him | 29 | 24k YT Subscribers
“Stubborn people change the world.”
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thoughtbubbleyt
Taru Hunter @taruhunter.bsky.social Professional lurker, avid gamer, Highland Games athlete, ASL interpreter and part time knight.
/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social We Make Crowdfunded Video Game Documentaries. Watch our docs at http://YouTube.com/noclipvideo. We also do underground games coverage at https://www.youtube.com/@Noclip2.
Skill Up @skillup.bsky.social YouTube sellout https://linktr.ee/skillupyt Business only: skillup@night.co