Video Game Preservation Museum @vgpm.org Video Game Preservation Museum is a Non-Profit dedicated to preserving Video Game History, and unreleased consoles & developer game consoles.
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for #StopKillingGames!
Join the community-run Discord: https://discord.gg/TCE6uXwsBe
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https://www.stopkillinggames.com
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Videospielkultur @videospielkultur.bsky.social Der 2006 gegründete gemeinnützige Verein Videospielkultur e.V. (kurz VSK) setzt sich für die Anerkennung von Videospielen als wertvolles Kulturgut ein – auf politischer, akademischer und gesellschaftlicher Ebene.
Game History Association @hernihistorie.cz Nonprofit organization Herní historie, z.s.
🌐 We bring you old games & We care for Czech and Slovak videogame history.
💸 herohero.co/hernihistorie
🎮 retroherna.org
📦 herniarchiv.cz
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
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
Willem Hilhorst @whilhorst.bsky.social Games Preservation at Beeld & Geluid (Sound & Vision) | Associate Editor NWR | Games-Journalist | He/Him 🇳🇱
https://linktr.ee/willemh
infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social Industry News and New Resources For Librarians, Journalists, Educators, and Others; More at infoDOCKET.com; Gary Price, MLIS Editor/Curator
Standard Issue Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog a man who unfortunately enjoys video games
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too 
🏳️⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social (Pronounced WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree
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
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
Play History @playhistory.bsky.social Independent games researcher, Ethan Johnson. Preserving gaming history!
Patreon: http://tinyurl.com/pdp5pdrj
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@play_history/videos
Blog: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Editor of Gaming Alexandria
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk Video Game Culture, Preserved. Award Winning Creative Studio & No.1 Bestselling Book Publisher Est. 2020.
lostincult.co.uk
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
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
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
Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social Artist, Researcher & Lecturer | Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT | WG1 Lead, Grassroots of Digital Europe (COST) | Co-President, History of Games International Conference (@historyofgames.bsky.social) - kierannolan.com
Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social Professor of Virtual Heritage & Interactive History, Adelaide University. Researching serious games for heritage & history. https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/ OR https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-champion/
VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social The VALUE Foundation brings out the untapped potential of knowledge at play. We work in the crossroads of gaming, academia, and the past. #archaeogaming
Website: https://value-foundation.org/
Blog: https://interactivepasts.com/
Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social Digital Play Journalist for Forbes, BBC, Guardian. Brings games to unusual spaces, festivals and cathedrals. Makes cool stuff:
📕https://mybook.to/whatwashidden
📘https://mybook.to/taminggaming
🎯http://www.ludocene.com
🔎http://www.familygamingdatabase.com
James Manning @jimaroonie.bsky.social Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Co-Chair, Freeplay.net.au. Board member, DiGRAA. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.
Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies.
Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social Interim Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku
Contact: ethan.gach@kotaku.com / ethangach on Discord
Secure email: ethangach@protonmail.com / 2673263042 for Signal
Newsletter at https://deadgame.substack.com/
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Richard Cole @richardcole.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Futures at the University of Bristol (Bristol Digital Futures Institute) and co-director of the #BristolDigitalGameLab
Hit Save! @hitsave.org Hit Save is a nonprofit dedicated to video game preservation, with specific focuses on fostering community involvement and championing the stories of small developers.
Visit us at www.hitsave.org
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/TCKT6uA
Garrett Fredley @somecronzaguy.bsky.social Staff Archive Engineer, IP Preservation @PlayStation,
Cosplayer & Prop Maker, Hobbyist Artist, Visual Novel Enthusiast, Cynical Optimist
Klara Sterczewska @klarast.bsky.social PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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@lainenooney.bsky.social
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Soraya Murray
Mike Bishop @bishbash.bsky.social PlayStation Studios' IP Preservation manager, based in Liverpool. Owned by a rescue kitten called Beeswax. He/him.
Polygon @polygon.com Covering video games, entertainment, and the culture around them. We find, share, and investigate the things you love and the people who make and enjoy them.
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
Andreas Lange @andreas-lange.toot.community.ap.brid.gy expert/ advocat #DigitalCulture #DigitalHeritage #GamingHeritage #DigitalPreservation, COO https://efgamp.eu/, co-initiator […]
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Benjamin @bigboxcollection.com #Nerd collecting big box games - BigBoxCollection.com
#C64 pixel pusher & coder > PixelPunx - jmin.at
Piotr Gnyp @tipheret.bsky.social 🎮 PR & bizdev in #gamedev | Keeping classics alive, shaping what’s next
🛸 Sci-fi, transhumanism & vampire aficionado
🐾 Two cats, many ideas, and a world to explore
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
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ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
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ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Embracer Games Archive @embracergamesarchive.com The official Bluesky account for the Embracer Games Archive. We believe that games carry a heritage worth celebrating and safeguarding for the future.
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The Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies @dgtl-culturesuq.bsky.social https://hass.uq.edu.au/centre-digital-cultures-societies
Digital Creativity & Cultures Hub @dcch-leeds.bsky.social Supporting research at the University of Leeds, UK that uses digital methods, cultural heritage collections and archives, and explores digital creativity across digital humanities and beyond
CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social Promoting critical scholarship on digital culture, technology, and society from Annenberg School for Communication and SAS Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/center-on-digital-culture-and-society
Centre for Digital Culture @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and public engagement with digital culture. Based at King's College London.
Digital Culture & Education @digitalculture.bsky.social An international open acess peer-reviewed journal dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of digital technology's impacts on society, culture, & education
http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com
Computer History Museum Slovenia @racunalniskimuzej.bsky.social 🖥️🏛️🇸🇮 Celovška 111, Ljubljana
https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en
👉 https://linktr.ee/racunalniskimuzej
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Digital Preservation Practical Implementers Guild @dppig.bsky.social Wellington, NZ
Digital Preservation Coalition @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is building a welcoming and inclusive global community, working together to bring about a sustainable future for our […]
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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
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
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!
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.
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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
Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur @games-stiftung.bsky.social Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur gGmbH | Chancenbotschafterin für Games | Kultur, Bildung und Forschung mit 🎮✨ | Impressum & Datenschutz: https://t1p.de/SDSKInfo
sCZther @sczther.bsky.social Videogame archivist and historian, focus on local (czech/slovak) history and obscurities
moesgaard @tatsavitr.bsky.social Indologist, ethnomusicologist, pinhole photographer, research librarian, and game archivist at the Royal Danish Library.
blackcharcz @blackchar.cz Hack books, read games, play history.
Ann Wain @annwain.bsky.social Collections Officer for the National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK @nvmuk.bsky.social. Views my own. Header image by Alexalan.
SUBOTRON @subotron.bsky.social platform for digital game culture in vienna est. 2004. interdisciplinary conductor & connector.
https://subotron.com/
The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social The NVM's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for everyone. Forever. 🎮🕹▶️ #PlayTheMuseum
https://thenvm.org/
John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social Creative Director & Co-CEO National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK
Own views.
Nicole Hanisch @mausui.bsky.social cat lady, computerspielemuseum, berlin
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