ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au News and analysis from Australia’s most trusted news organisation.
Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Reviews.org Australia. Follow my newsletter at MultiplierAU.substack.com
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
Emil Čolić @chol.ch Horror/SFF and game writer in Amsterdam. Working on Horizon at Guerrilla Games.
Matt Nava @mattnava.bsky.social Creative Director of Sword of the Sea, The Pathless, and ABZÛ. Art Director of Journey and Flower. Natural history/dinosaur enthusiast. mattnava.com
Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey
CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social A Very Good Videogames Magazine.
Home to the Mad Conts, our backers, our friends.
Issue 01 coming soon!!
www.continuemagazine.com
meredith 🙂↕️ @merryh.bsky.social 🙋🏻 hello!
🦋 head of marketing @wingsfund.me
🔑 bizdev & production consultant
💜 ex @summerfallstudios.com / @wearevicscreen
🏢 cofounder @accessunlockanz
💌 curator for @indiedigest.dev
🦋 she/her
🎮 merryh.dev
Ruby Cornish @rubycornish.bsky.social ABC newsreader & reporter. News Time host on ABC Kids. Trail chaser. Rhymer. Cert IV Auslan.
Steve Heller @hellerphant.bsky.social Producer at 17-BIT in Kyoto.
Formerly production and narrative at Fellow Traveller.
Worked on Orwell, Hacknet, The Stillness of the Wind, Neo Cab and others.
Also run indie publication Pixels for Breakfast.
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
Julian Fell @jtfell.com Journalist at ABC News Story Lab
https://jtfell.com
FuturLab @futurlab.co.uk The award-winning studio behind PowerWash Simulator, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, Velocity 2X & more | Great games 🤝 no crunch | bit.ly/FuturLabCareers
Buru and The Old People | Wishlist on Steam @buruthegame.bsky.social An upcoming, short narrative adventure game 🌳 Explore the hand-drawn world 💬 chat with quirky locals 🎲 encounter D&D inspired mini-games.
💌 https://buruthegame.beehiiv.com/subscribe
🔗 https://linktr.ee/buruthegame
📫 buruthegame@gmail.com
Sav Wolfe @transwitcher.bsky.social Triple Award Winning game developer, Manager of Events, Content and Communication at IGEA, Content and Admin on GCAP, horror freak, crafts, thanatology and cryptozoology. Trans and queer!
Was previously TimesNTroubles on the other sites.
Emily Spindler @sagefoxx.bsky.social Games and music journalist, content creator, former editor, undiscovered cryptid | Prev: Kotaku AU, GamesHub
Harrison Polites @harrisonpolites.bsky.social Writer of the Infinite Lives, an Australian video game Substack. Tech and Startup Comms consultant. Former business tech journo. 
Winters Tales @winterstalesco.bsky.social 🇦🇺 Aussie D&D Studio
🎥 TTRPGs & Storytelling
CRITAward Winner 2024✨for Innovation in TTRPGs 🙌🏼
winterstalesco.com
Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social Ngāi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation. Making Penguin Colony
Jon Cartwright (GameConsulting.com.au) @gameconsulting.bsky.social 40 year veteran games developer. Working with Screen Agencies, Publishers, and Developers.
Production on (REDACTED) for Fireshine
Production on DREDGE, Moving Out 2, Before We Leave, Age of Darkness, CONSCRIPT for Team17.
www.gameconsulting.com.au
amy louise doherty👻📷 @amyloudoherty.bsky.social Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight
Creative Director of @archrebels.bsky.social - GHOST CAM
Narrative Designer - God of Riffs, TSS, Exercise Your Demons
👻Get GHOST CAM on Steam shorturl.at/0NCUf
she/her
Gemma Driscoll @geeofdee.bsky.social Award winning yapper talking about video games online and on TV | Presenter, performer, (p)writer for hire | ABC | Views are my own | she/her
Email: gemmabdriscoll@gmail.com
Cameron J.Rooney @crooney.bsky.social 15+ years in Marketing and Project Management - former EA, Frostbite, Rooster Teeth, Anime Licensing. Played all the games. Had dinner with Kojima once.
Numbered Works @numbered.works Making things to play games with.
https://numbered.works
Josh Caratelli @joshcaratelli.bsky.social Engineering Director @ gravitywell.games • Aussie Goofball and indie dev• Prev Call of Duty dev (MW, WZ, WW2 etc) • Writes engines and physics for fun
ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social 🪷just here for attention🪷 making games.
Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com Great books on classic video games.
bossfightbooks.com
Latest:
● Dragon Age II by Charlotte Reber
● Life is Strange by Kaitlin Tremblay
● Legend of the River King by Alexander B. Joy
● DDR by Jessica Doyle & Jordan Ferguson
Joaby @joabyjojo.com Games critic, author, podcaster. My new book Till The Heavens Burst is out now! https://joabyjojo.com/2024/11/15/till-the-heavens-burst-is-available-now/
Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
League of Geeks (LoG!) @leagueofgeeks.com Crafting inspiring videogames and enthralling worlds, with exceptional people. 💖
Made Armello 🦁 + Solium Infernum 🔥+ Jumplight Odyssey 🚀
Currently hibernating. 🐻💤
Frosty Games 🍦 @frostygamesfest.com Helping you find the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa NZ 🍦🎮 Join the Frosty Fans mailing list to stay up to date! 👉 https://frostygamesfest.beehiiv.com
frostygamesfest.com
Powered by @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social
Nate Shearer @faultrunner.bsky.social Award-Winning Writer (was gifted a “World’s Best Dad” mug)
Nom👾 @nomibelle.bsky.social 📍Sydney, NSW
Naomi Jackson ⚪️ She/Him (gender fluid)
⚪️ ABC News, IGN, Superjump Magazine, SIFTER, Nom's Games Corner
⚪️Opinions are my own
Emailz: naomijacksonmedia@gmail.com
Laura @laurasaurusheck.bsky.social you may remember me from such usernames as “friendoboi” (she/they)
BarmE @barmearme.bsky.social Wiradjuri Wizard
Award Winning Advocate
Creative Director, Senior Producer and Narrative for @buruthegame.bsky.social
Ouss Ouss 👊🏼👊🏼
ruby! @rubyinnes.bsky.social agent of chaos at massive monster & back pocket | former slopstress at kotaku au | illustrator
Dave 💾 Powerhoof @dave.powerhoof.com The Drifter - OUT NOW! Game dever and the other half of Powerhoof- The Drifter, PowerQuest, Telwynium, Crawl, Regular Human BBall, Riders of Rhea, Peridium, etc..
https://powerhoof.itch.io
Rae Johnston @raejohnston.bsky.social Wiradyuri & Greek
STEM Journalist & Broadcaster
🎙️ Weird Tech, ABC Radio National Download This Show, ABC Radio NSW Sunday Mornings
📺Going Places (NITV) Back Roads (ABC) & The Secret DNA Of Us (SBS)
UNICEF Australia Ambassador
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
Ariel Bogle @arielbogle.bsky.social Investigations reporter @GuardianAus
// abogle@protonmail.com // Signal: @Ariel.872
Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social Technology reporter at the Guardian, in Melbourne, Australia. Tech, infosec, FOI, politics, media 🌈 (he/him) https://linktr.ee/joshtayl0r
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
Roy @roydon.bsky.social The horrors persist but so do I. Software engineer & retro archivist covering tabletop content for @sifterhq.bsky.social
Chris Arneil @chrisarneil.bsky.social professional(?) video game archivist @ the national film and sound archive of australia
Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
CAT🦈✨ @juiceboxcat.bsky.social Journalist - Game Dev - Currently studying Masters of Media Communications at Deakin!
https://binkycatblog.wordpress.com/
Ellie @ellietea.bsky.social Comms & Creator Manager for Ubisoft ANZ | thoughts here are all mine 🤠🌻 She/Her
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Nic Healey @doctornic.bsky.social Reformed tech journalist now making statewide radio in regional Victoria. Bourbon fan. Proud cat dad. Aldi Tim Minchin. He/him.
Leonard Skeonard @mike.reuben.games making Dead Static Drive with @leena.reuben.games
founder and owner/operator of the kurt russell fan club
Michael Allen @mikeythelucky.bsky.social Music Composer
jonathan jb webb @jjbw.bsky.social Giant nerd. Science journalist. Dad.
Rhiannon Stevens @ransos.bsky.social features reporter abc news
Skill Up @skillup.bsky.social YouTube sellout https://linktr.ee/skillupyt Business only: skillup@night.co
Alexander Perrin @alexanderperrin.bsky.social Codirector at 2pt Interactive
Creators of Heavenly Bodies 🛰️
You can get Short Trip on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3187700/Short_Trip/
Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
ALT: GAMES curatorial lead.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Lisy Kane @lisykane.com 🎮 WINGS Advisor, VicScreen Board, IGDA-F Board
✨ Production-for-hire (Massive Monster, onepixel. dog & more)
💜 Co-Founder Girl Geek Academy
🔄 Prev Kepler / Kowloon Nights, LoG
🌺 She/Her
🦘 MELB | Korean-Australian
https://linktr.ee/lisyk
Omi @omik.bsky.social 🎮 Australian Video Games Media Person
🌈 Editor/Writer/Radio @CheckpointAU
🫂 Comms & Engagement Specialist
🌞 Culture & Diversity
🔗 linktr.ee/okoulas
📸 @omi.kou
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.
Alex Walker @alexwalker.bsky.social Comms guy who spent 20 years writing about gaming/tech/esports (fmr. Kotaku Australia editor, ABC Tech + Games columnist, games.on.net, Gizmodo AU, Lifehacker AU, elsewhere).
James Swinbanks @jamesswinbanks.bsky.social former video games reviewer and podcaster, now just a games enjoyer. musician (bass and synth) and audio nerd. gamer. football (soccer) and motorsport fan. cat dad. #mufc
background by @aurahack.bsky.social
Steph Panecasio @stephpanecasio.bsky.social Journalist/presenter for hire, video game and TTRPG freak, big sandwich day advocate, and general menace.
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them 
Shannon Grixti @shannongrixti.bsky.social Gaming/tech news, reviews & first looks 🎮👨🏻💻🇦🇺
Find me everywhere: https://linktr.ee/shannongrixti
Simon Boxer @sboxle.bsky.social Making indie games @twicedifferent.bsky.social
Ring of Pain, Winnie’s Hole, The Dungeon Experience
SMG Studio | LEGO® Party! is out now! @smgstudio.bsky.social LEGO® Party! (Out Now on all platforms)
SPiNG & No Way Home https://store.steampowered.com/developer/SMG
Our games: Moving Out📦 | SP!NG on #applearcade | Death Squared | RISK: Global Domination | Thumb Drift | One More Line
smgstudio.com
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.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
John Passfield @johnpassfield.bsky.social Made Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen. Co-created TY the Tasmanian Tiger. I’m making Super Robot Survivors and Halloween Harry.
https://linktr.ee/retrojohnno
Serrels @serrels.bsky.social Will you CONTINUE?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
Emma Wynne @emwynne.bsky.social Member of the ABC Union @withmeaa.bsky.social EA Bargaining team 2025/2026
Dead Walshe @deanw.xyz Dean Walshe:
3D Art lead on Wild Bastards and Void Bastards
Past games I have worked on include Stellar Warsy things and the Borderlands Interquel doodad.
https://deanw.xyz/
(He/Him)
Liam Esler @liamesler.bsky.social Executive idiot at Summerfall Studios, creators of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical and upcoming exorcism deckbuilder, Malys!
🏳️🌈 he/him
SUPERJUMP @superjumpmagazine.com Multi-award-winning creative collective. Purveyors of wonder, imagination, and insight from the world of video games.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@superjumpmag
David Smith @rhunwords.com Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords
Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me Human intelligence for a synthetic age. Analyst exploring the friction between humans and AI. PhD candidate at UNSW / ADM+S researching generative authenticity. Regular on ABC radio. Living on Gundungurra land.
Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com not a spy.
investigative journalist.
President, SJAA.
Co-founder, CONTINUE magazine
i write about people, science, integrity, dodgy stuff, video games, art
newsletter: nobreakthroughs.com
Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social we all come from the woods when you think about it
she/her
@limbot.bsky.social @limbot.bsky.social 
James O’Connor @jickle.net Games industry producer, narrative designer, editor and critic. Author of Untitled Goose Game for Boss Fight Books and (unannounced second book). jamesoconnorau at gmail.
Courtney Smith @kotoni-san.bsky.social Anime and League of Legends content creator and affiliate streamer.
1/2 of Sakura Society.
Eng/日本語. She/her.
Living on Gadigal Land | Sydney
https://beacons.ai/kotoni_san
Meena Shamaly 🎮🎻🎙 @musophrenic.bsky.social Award-winning hugger. I make music & poetry & I talk a lot, especially about video game soundtracks on ABC Classic. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/MeenaShamaly
BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social + paperhousegames.com
+ Paperbark | Wood & Weather
+ self destructive optimist
was cool until you got to know me
Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social Awards-nominated freelance writer (ScreenHub, Kotaku Aus, Stevivor, PowerUp!, Byteside, Player 2, CheckPoint, SUPERJUMP, Qualbert, NG+, LT3, JPG). Highly opinionated on games, miniatures, & wrasslin'.
They/Them.
https://muckrack.com/jam-walker
Chris “Mutton” Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social Editor of GadgetGuy, award-nominated video games + consumer tech journo, lover of sports and cats. A very silly boy. He/him
Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social // Managing Editor, @ThisWeekInVideogames.com
// Managing Editor, GamesHub (2021-2023)
// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
// DM's open, edmond@thisweekinvideogames.com
SIFTER @sifterhq.bsky.social 🎮🏆Australia Podcast Award winning video games podcast network with interviews, reviews and news | 📧hello {at} sifter.com.au