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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social Fiction writer/essayist/consultant.
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LB Hunktears @hunktears.online socialist. luddite. writer & narrative designer @gardens.dev & @insecretplaces.com. father of dog. i love the beach boys. they/them (formerly blaseball, fanbyte, weird twine games) https://linktr.ee/hunktears
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Nat Smith 💫 @stottybairn.bsky.social Freelance games critic, reviewer, & writer.
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chilton 👁 @chiltonm.bsky.social Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist, Exploits books editor. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
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kelsey lewin @kelslewin.bsky.social “Compact and laser-focused” - The New Yorker.
Video game history enthusiast and Wonderswan evangelist. LFGM⚾️
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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social Chief Creative Officer at Prime8 Entertainment.
Principal Level Designer by day.
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Greg Tito @gregtito.com Author, playwright, screenwriter, and podcaster.
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social can pick up a boulder with relative ease, makes crushin’ rocks look like a breeze
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Francisco Dominguez @dominguezf.bsky.social Writes about games sometimes. Bylines: New York Times, IGN, Epic Games, PC Gamer, Polygon, Slate, Nintendo Life.
Fjdwrites(at)gmail.com
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Haywire Magazine @haywiremag.bsky.social Games culture magazine turned shared space for games writing. We are here to help critics, by helping critics help other critics.
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
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Jon Bolding @jonbolds.bsky.social
Chalcolithic Liche, Forbes 10 over 10,000. Games writer, on and about. Appears pcgamer, IGN, etc. Panel Three Moves Ahead. freelancer, hire me.
Dan Floyd @danfloydplus.bsky.social Professional animator, creator of New Frame Plus, PlayFrame and Extra Credits
Tim @weetim.bsky.social Currently: itch.io (I run itch.io’s official YouTube channel!) • co-founder • IndieGames.com • ThinkyGames.com • WarpDoor
Scott Tremper @scotttremper.com design + motion + video // Wiener dog enthusiast // Opinions are my own // he/him
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Craig (Doc Webb) @docwebb.bsky.social Dungeon Dad, Reader, Gamer, Gardener, Dwarven Bard. Fluent in Classical Geek. Writer, Editor, & Mid-Atlantic Con Rep for @goodmangames.bsky.social (opinions here are my own). He/Him. WARNING: I pun a lot. Avatar by the amazing @mothmanners.bsky.social- S Joshua Trevett @spacehamlet.bsky.social
Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
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Rob Haines @robhainescreative.space Creative writer, statistical programmer, photographer, pianist and unrepentant catdad.
he/him
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Cannot view DMs on Bluesky.
Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social Head Writer of EXTRA HISTORY on YouTube. Author of the Warhammer novels THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, THE FALL OF CADIA, ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER and THE WICKED AND THE WARPED. Freelance word mercenary. Born Hawaii, live HK. All views my own. He/Him
Reid McCarter @reidmccarter.bsky.social Freelance writer, mostly games. Formerly The A.V. Club, bylines at plenty of other places . Also http://bulletpointsmonthly.com and http://digitallovechild.com. He/him.
Chris Pranger @thechrispranger.bsky.social I like some jigsaw puzzles, some video games, and some people.
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Arthur Gies (he/him) @aegies.bsky.social Painter (instagram.com/pragmagic), editor/writer, founder of Polygon dot com and someone who's consulted on lots of games you liked and more you probably didn't. Tech-fixated, compulsively acquiring 4k physical media.
Doctor Doomer @untimelygamer.bsky.social He/him. Overeducated, failed academic. I'm into books, movies, videogames, tea, and wine. I sometimes write things. Video games: http://medium.com/@untimelygamer Films: http://letterboxd.com/untimelygamer/ and http://watchestoodamnmuch.wordpress.com.
Jay Allen @amaninblack.bsky.social nobody that you know unless you've heard of him.
deeply curséd combo of IR, tabletop wargaming, far right extremism in fandom spaces, and video game/industry crit. hell is empty and all the posts are here.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Ross A. Lincoln @rossalincoln.bsky.social Awkward balding bearded typist, aging hipster cliche. DMs Open, don't be a dick. (journalist/editor/writer. Opinions mine alone)
Paul G @paulgoodman.bsky.social All around awkward human being. He/Him. Videogame/tabletop game guy. Quite enjoyed Pacific Rim. Formerly @WMDogma from the bad place.
Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social Sometimes writer - https://lesmocon.medium.com/
Sometimes editor for Game Grumps
Sometimes wannabe card game afficionado
Always irrelevant
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
Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social Leftist. Cinephile. Video game person. Shares initials with Cayce Pollard. 
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
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Becca Bair 🐝🐝 @tupelohoney.bsky.social Texas ✈️ —> Sweden 🇸🇪
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Alex Santa Maria @allthatjuice.club Phoenix.
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Collector.
Dimir.
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Toonami Faithful.
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Alex Vissaridis @vizzee.bsky.social One of the ambient works that wasn’t selected. Graphic designer with an out of date website. Dad with a tired brain.
Chris Septicor @septicor.bsky.social Video gamer, Board Gamer, Poker player, Sports watcher, opinion giver, et cetera-er.
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social Interim Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku
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Videodame @videoda.me Essays, criticism, poetry, fiction, and artwork inspired by videogames.
Pitch: sara@saraclemens.com 
julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io writer, gamedev, video game consultant, homosexual. don't call me a solo dev. an example of the live mas mentality. Interstate 35, out now. making: UNANNOUNCED (TBD) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/Interstate_35/
Aaron Linde @aaronlinde.bsky.social narrative lead on Guild Wars 3, prev Halo Infinite, Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2, Battleborn, Gears of War 3. checks this thing like twice a year
Gertrude Perkins ☄ @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social Media, cultural studies, education. Used to research videogames and Let's Plays, still in recovery. A student called me a communist once. Queer guy, he/him. Dip me in chocolate.
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