Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
WobbuPalooza @wobbupalooza.bsky.social Parlor game history, especially focused on early collaborative storytelling / roleplaying / Surrealist games but also forfeits and pre-1800 games in general:
https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org
The Gaming Librarian @thelibgamer.bsky.social A Sage Mage of ALA’s GameRT. Librarian with diverse experience in public and academic libraries. I am now working for the Indiana State Library and living in Southern IN.
Matteo // Carrot @thecarrotclarinet.bsky.social King Termite On His Hill
Illustration Student
Enjoy art and ttrpgs immensely || 26 || <3 @nebulilac.bsky.social <3
https://linktr.ee/thecarrotclarinet
BR Cross @kylleran.bsky.social Father of two awesome kids.
Activist, anarchist, transhumanist and humanist.
Former: sociology professor, online wellbeing researcher, 1/4 of Posthuman Studios and co-creator of Eclipse Phase RPG.
Currently: Working on games and play at Innoplaytion.
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Karen Louise Smith @smithisgeneric.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Popular Culture & Film at Brock University. Personal account, reposts ≠ endorsements, and find me at http://karenlouisesmith.net/wp/
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information + Advisory board to ECP Canada / Pornhub (2023-2026) | #1 Animorphs Fan
www.internetmaggie.com
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Dylan Mulvin @dmulvin.bsky.social Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology.
dylanmulvin.com
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator @ University of San Francisco.
Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD, Computational Media).
UX: jazztap.github.io | Games: jatazak.itch.io
My Perfect Console podcast @myperfectconsole.bsky.social “CHARMING, INSIGHTFUL” - THE GUARDIAN.
“A GIFT” - VULTURE.
TIME OUT 50 BEST PODCASTS
One guest. Five video games. A perfect console.
Patreon.com/myperfectconsole
Podcast by @simonparkin.bsky.social
Simon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social Author and journalist. Creator of the My Perfect Console podcast. www.simonparkin.com
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com 📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.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
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
INQYR @inqyr.bsky.social The International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience is a SSHRC-funded partnership working to address the needs of queer youth through technology 🌈
linktr.ee/inqyr
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social 
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
A Gay Magikarp @masc4magikarp.bsky.social A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
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
The Nostagain Network @nostagain.bsky.social North America's first student-led collective studying and showcasing nostalgia. Based in Montréal, Canada.
🍁 https://nostagain.ca
👇 Relive the full playlist of our SYMPOSIUM 2026 here:
https://nostagain.ca/symposium2026
artemis, big boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing I write about videogames. Words @ Deleted Saves, startmenu, Superjump, TIER
Big Boss @ Stop Caring
(She/her or they/them)
https://linktr.ee/artemisawormrot
Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io I made YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS.
no pronouns or they/them
every day is Halloween! @jennatar.bsky.social jennfrank.net ✑ jennfrank.bearblog.dev
OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social We are OneBGS! Uniting Bethesda game fans & creators! 🎮🛠️ Advocating for better working conditions, fair wages, and a more inclusive gaming industry. #GamersForChange #BethesdaUnion
https://tinyurl.com/SaveGameWorkers
Jonathan Ore @jonore.bsky.social Senior writer & editor for CBC News online. Won't stop talking about video games. One-time guest on the Giant Bomb @nite couch.
Bio & contact: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/author/jonathan-ore-1.3300194
Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, enjoyer of things. Always learning.
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!
Yes, I'm here. In the midst of job search. carolinerpitt.phd
Tumeke Studio @tumekestudio.bsky.social Tumeke Studio is a Māori owned, independent R&D-driven game and systems studio building the tools and stories of tomorrow.
https://www.tumekestudio.com
Three More Years @threemoreyears.bsky.social Indie Games and Neon Future Narratives.
a permanent echo - coming 2027:
https://s.team/a/3727200/
Mini Mini Golf Golf out now on Steam:
https://s.team/app/3188050/
The Skybox is Falling! @theskyboxisfalling.bsky.social Feed me industry chatter and rumblings of crashes, -pocalypses, catastrophes, collapses and related hyperbolitries around games and other stupid products!
Phillip Brandes @litgamestudies.bsky.social cat dad
Literary- (&) Game Studies
PhD: retelling in digital games
https://phillipbrandes.de
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
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
a wear a mask iteration @an-iteration.bsky.social Eggbug veteran, still refuses to engage with numbers.
bleet > skeet
Stay masked out there. (he)
Ludocorpus @index.ludocorpus.org.ap.brid.gy Ludocorpus a pour mission de diffuser et valoriser les travaux scientifiques sur le jeu et ses enjeux sociétaux via une approche pluridiciplinaire.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://ludocorpus.org/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
Veronika Kracher @veronikakracher.bsky.social Monitoring|Recherche|Analyse belastender Dinge nicht nur im Internet. Geschlechterverhältnis, Online-Radikalisierung, extreme Rechte. Bildungsarbeit.
Autorin: "Incels" (2020), "Bitch Hunt" (2026).
Materialistische Feministin. (sie/dey)
Sascha Morlok @modgamers.bsky.social DE/GER | Nerdkram und Politik. Trägt schwarze T-Shirts mit Popkulturreferenzen.
#pnp #pnpde #Shadowrun Autor für @pegasusspiele.bsky.social und @catalystgamelabs.bsky.social
Veröffentlichung: https://rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/55518/sascha-morlok
CV @clairvoyantvibes.bsky.social toronto person, sometimes i draw things here: @mint-framboise.bsky.social
Queer Communist Game Jam ☭ @queercomgames.bsky.social International Game Jam organized from Cuba 🇨🇺
“Let’s start a queer, communist, game industry revolution.”
🎮 itch.io/jam/queercomgames2026
📝 instagram.com/queercomgames
👾 https://discord.gg/sZkfS9NtG
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi
ENDGAME project @endgame-project.bsky.social Project at @gameresearchlab.bsky.social funded by the RCF. We investigate game cultural participation and agency in specific local and cultural contexts. https://projects.tuni.fi/endgame
Logo: @piisamisiili.bsky.social
Banner photo: SEUL ry/Katja Tähja
Happy Broccoli Games @happybroccoligames.bsky.social Indiedevs of Duck Detective: The Secret Salami and Apple Crumble!
(Berlin, Germany)
Future Friends Games @futurefriendsgames.com indie games publishing & self-publishing support
cool games for cool people by cool people
since 1896
games http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/futurefriendsgames
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social narrative design |ALL🔥WILL🔥RISE - Thirsty Suitors - 80 Days | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
Games Transformed @gamestransformed.bsky.social Games Transformed is a volunteer-run organisation celebrating games and radical politics 👾
We run a yearly festival and game jam, bi-weekly board game nights, and a year round programme of events.
linktr.ee/gamestransformed
Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social Studying the internet, technology, security, conflict, authoritarianism. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her.
Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
chimera*│ critical ⁎ game ⁎ studies @chimericosmo.bsky.social (he/they)
PhD Candidate in Political Science and Sociology
⁎Decolonial and transfeminist game studies
⁎Anthropologies from the body
Brian S. Chung @brianschung.bsky.social ⭐ Game Designer at @thesheepsmeow.com 🌟 Director at @gdocexpo.com 💫 Previously: Bramble, Fantage, Sony Online Entertainment 🌠
[untitled games event] Amsterdam @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social A space for experimental games and playable arts. A monthly Amsterdam-based 'book club' for games and conversation on play.
https://untitledgamesevent.nl
NEXT EDITION: 18 - 20 September
Javier Padilla @jpadillar.bsky.social Assoc. Professor @ Colgate Univ. interested in poetry, postcolonial, Irish, and Latin American Literatures.
iam8bit @iam8bit.com We create premium tangible things. | More: https://linktr.ee/iam8bit | For customer service inquiries, please visit support.iam8bit.com.
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
🦣 mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
Ondrej from Charles Games 🐝 @charlesgames.bsky.social Prague-based studio pushing boundaries of what games can do and say. Hidden-object Velvet 89 out now, new game We Grew Up in War in the works.
www.charlesgames.net
GSFLS | Global Summit 2026 @lgbtqstudies.bsky.social Official account of the 11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Uniting global scholars and leaders in gender studies, feminism, sexuality, and social justice.
Berlin, Germany, 24–25 Sept 2026.
https://genderandfeminist.com/
Exhibit:Play @exhibitplay.com Dedicated to discovering and sharing hyper specific curated game lists. All human curated.
Created by @farfama.bsky.social
exhibitplay.com
Gaming the System(s) Educational Collaborative @gaming-the-systems.bsky.social Gaming the System(s) is a 501c(3) charitable organization dedicated to promoting the use of games in educational & therapeutic settings. We also organize the Game-Based Education & Therapy Conference embedded in Origins Game Fair.
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
Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
Jon Peterson @increment.bsky.social Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroes’ Feast, etc. 
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist.
NEW from The MIT Press w/ Tracy Fullerton: “The Well-Read Game” a.co/d/6oAphWV
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social lingering phantom of a journalist for the verge, wired, rolling stone, the new york times, and more. former book designer. cfs/me. find me at geoffreybunting.co.uk for now. he/him.
tips and faint praise to g.a.bunting@gmail.com | signal: gabunting.89
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
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social Writer and broadcaster. Thinking at the intersection of critical theory and cognitive science. Book coming out May 2025. she/her
Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social Propagandist for an impossible country.
Two letters away from a tax haven.
Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination.
Views are probably some else's because that's how ideology works.
DonE @optional.bsky.social let me fish out my sociologist card from my old wallet, I think it said it was good for life
co-managing ed @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social
previous at Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, Bullet Points Monthly, Wireframe, Polygon, Symbolic Interaction & more
Game Assist 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @gameassistyt.bsky.social We are a collective standing for transformative justice & liberation through game writing, research & development. Find us on YouTube for video essays making political analysis of games accessible 💜
Art by knellbelles + @fionacreates.bsky.social
No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com We are a group of game workers, activists, union organisers, and journalists that care about the games industry, Palestine and all people living under the violence of colonialism and imperialism.
https://nogamesforgenocide.com/
Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social Video game critic, Editor-at-Large @ Polygon. Formerly Digital Trends, Inverse, Hard Drive
i am never doing “discourse” i do not know what random post you are talking about
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Emily 🪬🍉🏳️🌈 @songofthenight.bsky.social Videographer 🎥 | Journalist 📰 | Jewish Researcher ✡️ | Horror Buff 🔪| Dirty Queer 🏳️🌈
Daley @daleyday.bsky.social frazzled fantasy author ✨
unrepentant podcaster 🎙️
earnest editor @worldbuildingwed.bsky.social 🐉
attempted polyglot 日本語 ✶ 中文 ✶ 한국어
Arcade Academia @arcadeacademia.bsky.social We're @daleyday.bsky.social and @songofthenight.bsky.social, two nerdy gals with an academically focused gaming podcast 🎙️✨
https://linktr.ee/arcadeacademia
Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing. 
Publisher Pathfinder @publisherpath.bsky.social Free resources to help with your Quest for games publishing and funding.
www.PublisherPathfinder.com
Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London. Co-director MA Digital Futures. Author of Videogames, Identity & Digital Subjectivity (Routledge 2017) and Artgames after Gamergate (Palgrave 2025): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032044341- M Michael Nixon @mnixon.bsky.social Associate Professor, teaching stream
university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
Andy Lee @unsurprisinglee.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Old School Gaming History @gaminghistory.bsky.social Relieve gaming olden days, from the beginnings to the mid 2000s!
3 posts each day: one video game history fact, and two retro game box art, arcade flyers or print ads.