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Solidarity, creativity, love and hope
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"Kritische Controller" (https://kritische-controller.letscast.fm/)
Krach bei DER ATOMAT. (https://deratomat.bandcamp.com/)
Aurelia Brandenburg @hekabeohnename.bsky.social Historian somewhere between Game Studies, Gender Studies and Digital Humanities. | Doing a PhD about German Games Journalism 1980-2000 @chludens.bsky.social | Board Member @akgwds.bsky.social | http://aureliabrandenburg.de/links | she/her
Ryan Zhao @insrtcoins.bsky.social Author: The Fundamentals of Video Game Literacy (coming April). Podcast host for Play;Write, Cane and Rinse, and Sound of Play. Marketing for Xbox Game Pass, prev. Nintendo.
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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
Mike Vazquez-DeAnda, PhD @playfulmike.bsky.social Games scholar & designer, queer, Latinx, rasquachero.
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Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
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William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
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Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social English Prof. Editor at Analog Game Studies.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev Video game writer and and narrative designer.
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The Genesys RPG guy.
San Marcos, TX
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
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Design Room @designroom.site A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
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Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
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.
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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv The game show where the rules change every show. Hosted by Sam Reich.
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Coyt Ransom @jcransom.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in History at UT Arlington researching the British Empire and archaeologists in West Asia and North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centirues.
The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social Official account for the Queerness and Games Conference #QGCon established in 2013. QGCon is a registered nonprofit based in Montreal, Canada.
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Nick LaLone @nicklalone.com Applied researcher in emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
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I will never vote for Gavin Newsom.
30s. Adrift.
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📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
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