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Debug Mag Columnist
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Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
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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.
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Lucas White @hokutolucas.bsky.social Writer/Co-Founder? - Managing Editor at @skyboxcritics.com, Freelancin’ at Shacknews, Kotaku, more? Formerly Prima Games and other stuff - inquiries can go to lucasw1989@gmail.com or lucas@skyboxcritics.com
Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social Fiction writer/essayist/consultant.
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Words: MLR, Purple Wall, ASP, The Rupture, YourTango, Vet. Life.
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Pizza Pachulia @nicanor.bsky.social Award winning documentary filmmaker. Award losing games critic. Writer-slightly-less-for-hire.
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Principal Apps and Games Writer at PCMag
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Luca Fisher @lucafisher.bsky.social "this 'psychosexual' stuff is 100% an issue unique to the author."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
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Haley MacLean @haleyfax.bsky.social Video game lawyer at Voyer Law, IP/tech/corporate
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Email: haley@voyerlaw.com.
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social essayist, critic, journalist
author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
words: Unwinnable, VGC, Polygon, GR+, RPS, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Mothership, Stop Caring, Deleted Saves, Skybox
https://ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/
she/her
MICHAEL HIGHAM @brazyazn.bsky.social swag off the meter | 🇵🇭 | editor, host @ IGN | prev: senior editor/host @ GameSpot + Fanbyte | seen on Kinda Funny, Giant Bomb, CNET | former political consultant | salamat sa yong suporta!
Cass @cassmarshall.bsky.social Video game jester and co-founder of rogue.site with two rescue cats and one husband. I like to like things.
Rollin Bishop @rollinbishop.com us managing editor @ gamesradar+, 1/3 of http://reframenewsletter.online (reframenewsletter@gmail.com)
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rollin.bishop@futurenet.com // rollinbishop.com
Johnny Yu @jawkneeyou.bsky.social Guides writer/editor @ Polygon
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
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ex-gamer: wrote previously at Kotaku
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
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alanah@optshift.co
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Maddie Agne @maddie-b-a.bsky.social games and tech, mainly
poetry and fiction, mostly
writer @thisweekinvideogames.com
https://readymag.website/u1817928311/5297315/
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they/she
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Willa Bloomfield-Rowe @thewillarowe.bsky.social Trans. Tall. Tired | Writer w/ bylines @ Polygon, Kotaku, AV Club, and more | Host @ Girl Mode | she/her | email: willa.d.rowe@gmail.com
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Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
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// Senior Editor and Video Producer, GameSpot (2008-2020)
// Multi-Award-Winning, Token Asian
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"You play like a girl" is a compliment.
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julia @hardykiwi.bsky.social (puts past self into a wood-chipper) (watches my hands fade from existence) man i dont even care anymore
Jade King @konayma6.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Lead Features Editor at TheGamer/Video game, animation, and queer culture critic. Fruity. Email: jade.k@thegamer.com. She/They.
I’m doing everything in my power to destroy video games.
Emma Kidwell @emmakidwell.bsky.social Award-nominated writer | Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Civilization VII, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Hindsight | Opinions my own | ForbesUnder30 2021 | TGA Future Class 2023| BAFTA Connect | https://www.emmkid.info/ |🇺🇸/🇯🇵
Hideo Kojima @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies.
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Maximum Utmost - https://maxutmost.com/
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social A baddie with big mommy milkers. Host of the podcast I Hate Bill Maher.
小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp ゲームクリエイター：僕の体の70%は映画でできている
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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
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