@quentinlourdaux.bsky.social @quentinlourdaux.bsky.social 
GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social GAMERella is the world’s longest running annual game jam and workshop series focusing on supporting marginalized game creators and aspiring game makers. 
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
Wolf_Hoi @wolfhoi.bsky.social Game Studies || Psychology || Digital Play Enthusiast
Master's degree programme Game Studies and Engineering, Writer & Mental Health Advocate. Accessibility matters. "Retro can be fun!"
Phillip Brandes @litgamestudies.bsky.social cat dad
Literary- (&) Game Studies
PhD: retelling in digital games
https://phillipbrandes.de
Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social Game Designer | Narrative Design Professor at NAD-UQAC
Research-creation, inclusive games, and cultural citizenship. 🎮🧁
🔗 laulgame.itch.io
🔗 https://cltrs.start.page
☕ support me: https://ko-fi.com/laurelinemhc
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 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Unwinnable @unwinnable.com A place for stories | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1VQ9omB | Pitch: http://bit.ly/3oBCo5z
Toronto Games Week @torontogamesweek.com A celebration of playful arts and culture in the city of Toronto!
Toronto Games Week ran from June 11th-17th, 2026. Subscribe to our newsletter for info about #TGW27!
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Toronto Game Jam @torontogamejam.bsky.social TOJam 2026 happening May 8th-10th! Registration IS OPEN: forms.gle/ww1ExuCGpEQvrZUm7
TOJam 2025 - See the games here: https://itch.io/jam/tojam2025
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Hugo Angel @listeningmaniac.bsky.social 🎓 PhD Student @umontreal.ca
🎮🎧 Game and sound studies researcher
Maxime Verbesselt @mverbesselt.bsky.social Assistant en Information - Communication @ EMPC UNamur // Professeur invité IHECS // Professeur invité HEPL // Liège Game Lab
Alexander Ross @alexross73.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University- 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.
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.
Christina Laffin @christinalaffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
Alberto Porta @aporta.bsky.social Communication Sciences PhD at @uji.es. I'm interested in #GameStudies: ludonarratives, ludomusicology, childhood and moral dilemmas. https://linktr.ee/albertoporta
KeijiAMANO @kzamano.bsky.social Professor, College of Image Arts and Science,
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, JAPAN
Réseau francophone d'histoire ludique (RFHL) @histoireludique.bsky.social Réseau ouvert à tous·tes chercheur·euses, créateur·rices et médiateur·rices culturel·les pour l'étude de l'histoire dans les jeux et des jeux dans l'histoire.
Conférences, ressources biblio et contacts ici : https://histoireludique.fr/
Sporobole @sporobole.bsky.social Nous sommes un centre de recherche, de production et de diffusion artistique en contexte numérique situé au Québec. Nous soutenons les artistes de toute discipline, les OBNL et les entreprises d'économie sociale dans leur virage numérique.
A. Cathy Nguyen @anhthu.bsky.social Kyoto ✦ games, tourism, memory ✦ en/de
https://kaydenuen.com/
Mattias van Ommen @mvanommen.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist working on Japan and digital games.
http://www.mattiasvanommen.com
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
Prof Matthew @profmatthew.bsky.social Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
Mr Mondialisation @mr-mondialisation.bsky.social Média indépendant, environnementaliste, humaniste et décroissant.
Pour nous soutenir : http://mrmondialisation.org/donation/
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
Nicolle Lamerichs @nicolleness.bsky.social 🔸️Media studies scholar
🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech
🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht
🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖
https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
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
Dr. Ben Mitchell @drlibraryben.bsky.social (he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), medical humanities, history/public history, neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
Jeffrey @geoffwhill.bsky.social Ugly bag of mostly water. he/him. Aussie in London!
J. J. Aumercier @jeanju.bsky.social Prof de philo (lycée Ella Fitzgerald à Saint Romain en Gal) et doctorant (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, ISJPS) sur les liens entre jeu vidéo et pensée morale.
https://theses.fr/s385320
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Joel White (he/him) @joelalwhite.bsky.social MA Student in Communication and Culture, York University
Researching character creation and player engagement in digital games
Blog: www.thethirdmedium.com
ONFR @onfrtfo.bsky.social ONFR suit l’actualité francophone au quotidien. Politique, société, culture. On raconte des histoires qui vont au-delà de la manchette et on vous fait découvrir des artistes et leurs univers.
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Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@ONFR
CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social Canadian Association of University Teachers // Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social A podcast about old video games. 10 years = retro, we don't make the rules. Support us on Patreon for exclusive episodes, Discord access, and more!
patreon.com/retronauts
Craig Carey @ccarey.bsky.social Associate Professor, USM. Media History, Game Studies, C19 Literature, Critical Theory
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.
Justin Roberts ✨ @justinrobs.bsky.social MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
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.
Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social Chair, Computational BIology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.
Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto.
Disclosures: https://github.com/michaelmhoffman/disclosure/
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
Sara Humphreys @saraventure.bsky.social I was your friendly, neighbourhood rhetoric and game studies diva. Now I’m not sure what’s going on. I'm into critical pedagogy, rhetorical genre studies, open ed, and trusting my students.
@amirghorab.bsky.social @amirghorab.bsky.social 
Philippe Bessette @phil-bessette.bsky.social Journaliste à TVA Gatineau-Ottawa, Rythme Fm 97,1 et TVA Sports
Vous avez une histoire? Écrivez-moi au philippe.bessette@tvagatineau.ca
Animateur du balado Fanball!
https://open.spotify.com/show/0VwqYrAufWJch45WFGiAGt?si=a34082d5a607464f
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- S @schoukah.bsky.social @schoukah.bsky.social
Groupe de recherche Homo Ludens @homo-ludens.bsky.social Groupe de recherche sur le jeu.
Chaque année une thématique de travail ✏️
https://linktr.ee/homoludens.uqam 
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
@stevejkk.bsky.social @stevejkk.bsky.social 
Emmanuelle Lescouet @comfycademia.bsky.social 📚édition livres et imaginaire 📚
Directrice @nuitblanche.magazinelitteraire, éditrice de Multimodalité(s), chercheuse parfois
Sébastien Pierroz @sebastien-pierroz.bsky.social 🎧 Journaliste pour @ledroit.com. Couverture Ville d'Ottawa + enjeux francophones. Chronique hebdo.
📚 Auteur pour les Éditions David. Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2024.
🌍 Né à #Annecy. Joueur de soccer raté. Apprenti marathonien.
#onfr #frcan #polcan
AoAb @aoab-hugo.bsky.social • Game dev / PHD student in video game creation
• Working on an urban utopian RPG !
📖Text based
👺Internal skills about the city and the self
😱New weird
🌃Urban utopia
He/Any
QC/FR
linktr.ee/AoAb_Hugo
PP : Yann Frey
Jonathan @jotoucan.bsky.social Artiste, Textile, Costumes, Human
@broandy.bsky.social @broandy.bsky.social 
Candice Dan @candicedan.bsky.social 
Anna-Maria Trefois @annamariatrefois.bsky.social Doctorante au Liège Game Lab (Université de Liège)
Matrimoine vidéoludique
Co-fondateur'ice de l'ASBL Pixielles (streaming sur Twitch)
audhd (iel/ael/elle)
Alexis Messina - LGL @alex-messina.bsky.social PhD student : game idéation et recherche création de jeux vidéo (he/him)
médiateur culturel, technopédagogue et formateur
LiegeGameLab (Université de Liège, BE)
ExpressiveGamelab (Université de Lorraine, FR)
Sophie Hellégouarch @sophiehellegouarch.bsky.social Doctorante en sociologie, Brest. Travail créatif, industrie du jeu video, organisation du travail, résistances.
Kimimi🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com AKA Kerry Brunskill. Hi and/or sorry
Enby They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Freelance writer - hire me!
Contributing writer @pcgamer.com
Come smother yourself in enthusiastic gaming goodness: https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/kimimi
Pierre-Yves Hurel @pyhurel.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in Lausanne, Switzerland
Video game history & hobbyists
@fxsurinx.bsky.social @fxsurinx.bsky.social Doctorant FNRS-FRESH au Liège Game Lab. Je me passionne pour les catégorisations génériques. Nageur d'eau froide le reste du temps
Liège Game Lab - LGL @liegegamelab.bsky.social Laboratoire de recherche sur le jeu vidéo - U.R. Traverses - Université de Liège, BE. Le Liège Game Lab, c'est deux livres, cinq cours dispensés et plus d'une vingtaine de chercheur.euse.s. Plus d'infos : www.liegegamelab.uliege.be
Jonathan Lessard @glandeurlessard.bsky.social Chaire de recherche en design de jeu (Concordia)
Créateur-Chercheur-Glandeur
jonathanlessard.net
lablablab.net
www.game-design.ca
Sébastien Genvo @sebgenvo.bsky.social Professeur à univ-lorraine / Game Designer indé / Responsable Expressive Gamelab http://www.expressivegame.com / Chaine youtube Théories des jeux vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/@SebastienGenvo / #sciencesdujeu / #gamestudies
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@helazahar.bsky.social @helazahar.bsky.social 
@chevaldeouate.bsky.social @chevaldeouate.bsky.social 
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Sarah Christina Ganzon @otomedoctor.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
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
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. 
Greg Dinsmore @gdinsmore.bsky.social Prof adjoint Études des cultures numériques, Université de l'Ontario français
Radio-Canada Info @info.radio-canada.ca Nos nouvelles et contenus les plus populaires pour ne rien manquer de l'actualité.
🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info
Taki Udon @takiudon.bsky.social Reviews on everything handheld, with a mix of posts on product development.
Co-Founder of R².
Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social Co-host of Retronauts and Talking Simpsons, acclaimed author of Skeleton Car Wash
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
Video Games as Literature @videogamesaslit.bsky.social Just a regular human writer, blogging about literary video games since 2012. Aka Ringwraith10 all over. 🏳️🌈♿ (she/her)
@videogamesaslit on most other socials.
www.videogamesaslit.com
📚 DM me to join the Literary Game Club
See also @ringwraith10.bsky.social
Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin @gabrielletj.bsky.social Professor and researcher in game studies
School of media, Université du Québec à Montréal
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Kazuma Hashimoto @ gamescom @kazuma.bsky.social critic / consultant / ??? @ ??? x2 ・ award nominated ・ ハーフ ・ he/him ・ 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ・ bylines: IGN, Polygon, GamesRadar+, MMORPG, Them, Inverse, Rolling Stone ・ CONTACT: kazuma.h.de@gmail.com ・ posts don't reflect employer, etc. etc.
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
Banner by Lina Wu
Avi by realrollsweat
Luis Aguasvivas @aguaspoints.bsky.social Game Critic - NPR Contributor
Debug Mag Columnist
Member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle - DiGRA
Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
aguaspoints.com
Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.com
Editions Pix'n Love @editionspixnlove.bsky.social Compte officiel Bluesky des Editions Pix'n Love. Editeur de jeux video et livres 📚🎮 International account : @pixnlove.bsky.social
Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social sociology, science & technology studies.
queer/feminist sts, sexuality & gender studies, @temple univ, cat steward, music 🎶 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎢 tomwaidzunas.net
Out Doing Science by Tom Waidzunas, Ethan Czuy Levine and Brandon Fairchild https://www.umasspress.com
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Éric Thériault @extheriault.bsky.social Franco-Ontarien (du Nord), Acadien, Papa.
Professeur Agrégé de Psychologie et Gérontologie au Cap-Breton.