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Miranda Sanchez @havokrose.bsky.social Executive Editor of Guides at IGN and Podcast Unlocked member
Into books, beer, stationery, cats, video games, and writing.
She/her
Suriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social Video game consultant, writer, and designer.
Freelance consultant for Hit Detection, Magid, etc. Prev: Narrative Lead at Big Blue Sky Games. For mock reviews, SWOTs, and consultations, contact surielvazquez@gmail.com
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
Gregory Louden @gregorylouden.bsky.social Creative Director @Housemarque & @ConvictGames. Art Life 🖼 Projects: #SAROS #Returnal, #BurnGame, STONE, CTRL, QB & more.
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
Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com Béton brut for bluesky — by @spice.bsky.social
🇮🇷#NoWar
🇻🇪#HandsOffVenezuela
🇨🇺#EndTheBlockade
🇵🇸#FreePalestine
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩
previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Sophie Gough @sophiesaidit.bsky.social PR Manager @ Bethesda APAC
Harrison Polites @harrisonpolites.bsky.social Writer of the Infinite Lives, an Australian video game Substack. Tech and Startup Comms consultant. Former business tech journo. 
Río Robayo (She/Her) @riorobayo.bsky.social 🌟She/Her
🌟Lizzie Nominee
🌟Writer and Reviewer for Qualbert.com
🌟Spanglish Speaker 🇦🇺 🇻🇪
🌟Professional Winger
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
Jayden Cusack @jaydencusack.bsky.social 🇳🇿 Founder/Editor: @gamesnight.bsky.social
🗣️ and ✍️ about video games.
Email: jayden@gamesnight.nz 🎮
Jennifer Locke @jenlocke.bsky.social PR/Marketing at popagenda. Past: PR at Gearbox. Former games journalist. Pokémon card collector. She/her
Cpt-Caty @cpt-caty.bsky.social 23K Youtuber, Video gamer, Cosplayer
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@Cpt_Caty
This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com No ads. No AI. Just videogame coverage that matters.
Fully independent, commercial free, and reader-funded.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Maddie Agne @maddie-b-a.bsky.social games and tech, mainly
poetry and fiction, mostly
writer @thisweekinvideogames.com
https://readymag.website/u1817928311/5297315/
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/
Chris Arneil @chrisarneil.bsky.social professional(?) video game archivist @ the national film and sound archive of australia
Giselle Rosman @jazzrozz.bsky.social She/her
Naarm, Tantalus/Keywords Australia. Game dev mum , mum worried about the death of the planet. I like birds, trees, and kindness. Former GGJ and IGDA Melbourne Lead
Rocka @rockareally.bsky.social Part-Time Creative/Planner | Full-Time Student/Parent | Big Dreamer | Game Enthusiast| Reader| Beginner Violinist!
https://linktr.ee/RockaReally
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
Barney (Powerhoof) @barney.powerhoof.com Powerhoof games by Dave & Barney | http://CrawlGame.com | http://TheDrifterGame.com | http://AcidKnife.com | http://RegularHumanBasketball.com
Environment Protection Authority Victoria @epa.vic.gov.au Helping Victorians protect their community from pollution and waste.
Recycling Victoria joined EPA on 30 June 2026. This expands our role in waste, recycling and the shift to a circular economy.
epa.vic.gov.au
Environment Victoria @envirovic.bsky.social Independent & not for profit, we’ve been working to look after Victoria’s environment since 1969 — Join us https://envict.org/join-us
Authorised by Jono La Nauze, CEO
Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social Old lady webmaster. 💅 I design. I develop. I make things pretty. 🎨 💻
Currently developing teapleasegame.com
Parliament of Victoria @vicparliament.bsky.social Official feed of the Parliament of Victoria
MinnMax @minnmax.com MinnMax is a Patreon about games, friends, and getting better. Check out The MinnMax Show, The Deepest Dive, New Show Plus, Pew Pew Bang, MinnMax Interviews, and more!
Janet Garcia @gameonysus.bsky.social Critic, Video Game Consultant, Host ✨ Words at @PenToPixels.com. Convos at @minnmax.com, @pewpewbang.bsky.social, @remapradio.bsky.social, @TheIndieCouncil.com, & @GamesAndNotGames.com. Streams on Twitch.tv/Gameonysus.
Email: janet@pentopixels.com
LA 📍🇲🇽🇵🇷
Joshua Meadows @joshuameadows.com Writer, game dev, and now fake internet chef! Writer of Iyetra, writer/dev for Alcyone: The Last City (out now!), and founder of GX Australia. Sullen homosexual. (He/him)
https://linktr.ee/joshuameadows
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Gruwidge @gruwidge.bsky.social 25 // He/They // Aussie // YouTuber, Artist, and Streamer
I won't shut the f*ck up about Sonic and Ace Attorney.
#ANZCreators
https://www.youtube.com/@gruwidge
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
Alivia Mantel @aliviamantel.com 🇦🇺 in 🇫🇮
Game Writer & Narrative Designer | Working on Against All Skies | Prev. Landfall Games, Samurai Punk | I also make music 🎶 | She/Her 🫶
aliviamantel.com
Stef Animal @stef-animal.bsky.social Duck synth artist.
Spookysoft Games.
Cat pics.
Piers 💫 🔜 MIGW @piers.zip Solo dev cat person
📍 Brisbane 🇦🇺
💫 Working on Freeline! - a frenetic, kinetic, parkour speedrunning platformer.
✨ https://parkourcat.com/ - Wishlist Now!
🌐 https://piers.zip/
20 | They/Them
darcy w smith @darcywsmith.bsky.social Partially irresponsible for @folly.studio, Dogpile, Gubbins, Real Bird Fake Bird, etc etc
Tana ⭐ pls wishlist Shape Sender Deluxe @tanamakes.games makes games, does swing dancing & photography, and likes to talk
Director @deadteapot.games making Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐🟡🟧
ex-Technical Designer
@dinopoloclub.bsky.social on Mini Motorways & Mini Metro
he/him
Hugh is making Grow Forth! @haindesigns.com Creator of EGADS! TTRPG
Solarpunk writer, artist, doer and teacher of design from Magan-djin
📝🎲🪐☀️🌾
they/them
haindesigns.com
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/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
DOOM @doom.com DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations is now available on Xbox Series X|S, PC & PlayStation 5.
ESRB RATING: M
Game Informer @gameinformer.com Over 30 years celebrating the best of games in print and online.
Follow our work: GameInformer.com
Edie | PreciousOrgel✨️ 🏳️🌈Checkpoint Gaming🏳️🌈 @ediebee.bsky.social Contributor for Checkpoint Gaming
Talk to me about Sonic X Shadow Generations
Emily Spindler @sagefoxx.bsky.social Games and music journalist, content creator, former editor, undiscovered cryptid | Prev: Kotaku AU, GamesHub
RMIT Games @rmitgames.bsky.social News from RMIT's Bachelor of Design Games program from students, instructors, and researchers.
🧚♂️🧩🎲🎨
📍 Melbourne, AU
Jordan Ramée @jmramee.bsky.social Editor at GameSpot who covers a lot of games where you roll dice or play cards. BLM ✊🏾 They/Them
Email: jordan@gamespot.com // My work: gamespot.com/profile/jordanramee/
CAT🦈✨ @juiceboxcat.bsky.social Journalist - Game Dev - Currently studying Masters of Media Communications at Deakin!
https://binkycatblog.wordpress.com/
Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social Voice Actor #Dispatch #Warhammer | Gamedev @layersdeep.bsky.social prev #GodofWarLaufey | Filmmaker @CharredPictures.com |
alanah@optshift.co
https://linktr.ee/alanahpearce
XTN @xtineagerilla.bsky.social 👩🏻💻Technically Games
😴 Games Exchange
👾 Twitch: xtinesixteen
Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social Senior Graphics Programmer at Nixxes Software @nixxessoftware.bsky.social Previously TT Games and WeirdBeard Games. A member of Port Jackson Greens and the Sustainable Transport branch of Climate Change Balmain/Rozelle.
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
Calliope Ryder >NZGDC @callioperyder.bsky.social Made that hobbit game.
Gamedev, Producer, Artist, PR
On some neat lists (hi ma!)
Now: game analytics platform director @ GYLD. Resident cozy-game-expert @ Dragon Snacks.
Prev: Lead Producer on Tales of the Shire @ Wētā Workshop, Gamerunner @Starcolt
Steph 'Anuxi' Everett @anuxinamoon.bsky.social 3D artist plotting to take over the world. She/Her
~SNR. 3D Artist making tutes for Toolbag 5~
Currently obsessed with.. [check feed]
Danfriedz - Cyberpunk uber driver feat bees 🐝 @danfriedz.bsky.social Wishlist NEON EXPRESS https://store.steampowered.com/app/2952840/Neon_Express/
https://danfriedz.itch.io
Discord: https://discord.gg/CGER3nDv8e
| He/Him
oldmanofthefire @oldmanofthefire.bsky.social Artist, gamedev, enigma. Freelancer, open to work.
https://oldmanofthefire.com
gbGeorge @georgesgame.zone a nasty PC thug who makes games that haven't come out yet
https://vgen.co/gameboiGeorge
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
Serrels @serrels.bsky.social Will you CONTINUE?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social Co-founder and Creative Director at summerfallstudios.com. Canadian game dev who escaped the winter and is now living in Melbourne, Australia! He/Him
Shannon Grixti @shannongrixti.bsky.social Gaming/tech news, reviews & first looks 🎮👨🏻💻🇦🇺
Find me everywhere: https://linktr.ee/shannongrixti
Kelsey Gamble @kindofsquishy.bsky.social Studio Momager for @newblood.games. Executive Producer for Oddlark. Publishing Producer for hire. For legal reasons I am a joke and so is everything I say
River Boy @riverboybeats.bsky.social Audio Director at @massivemonster.bsky.social 
Leah J. Williams @legenette.bsky.social we all come from the woods when you think about it
she/her
Xavi @xavibell.bsky.social Writer and game maker. Sometimes in Melbourne.
Play Calamity Cait:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4200450/Calamity_Cait
Cherie 🏖️ @cheriedavidson.bsky.social Nerd ♡ Lover ♡ Game Midwife
Co-founder, studio director & programmer @intarsia.studio
Prev: VicScreen, Media Molecule, Mountains, Goose Game & more.
🏝️✉️🫧🌱🌌☕️🪿🏠🕺⛴️🍔🤖🐈⬛️🫳🐾🪲
James Manning @jimaroonie.bsky.social Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Co-Chair, Freeplay.net.au. Board member, DiGRAA. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.
Joel from video games @walistudios.au 🐉 Wishlist Wyrmspace 🌌 Tactics today!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122350/Wyrmspace_Tactics/
[-o-] Always was, always will be
💾 Co-founder and Game Design lead @ Wali Studios
❤️🔥 Freeplay board member
🃏Certified card game freak
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
Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social Postdoc @RMIT on gender, games and kids’ play cultures 👾
Freeplay board🤘DiGRAA board ⭐️ silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
Douglas Wilson @doougle.net 🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Theater/clown w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ)
he/him
mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougle
Erielle Sudario 🔜 PAX AUS 2026 @cutiejea.bsky.social AKA - Cutiejea | Award-nominated gaming + entertainment journo | Currently w/ @checkpointau.bsky.social & Collider | Bylines in 2ser, @australia.theguardian.com, SBS, @news.abc.net.au & @thecitizenau.bsky.social | All views are my own.
Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games Gamedev, writer, researcher, vulgar lush. Making @DeadStaticDrive.com with @mike.reuben.games. I wrote a book once and I’ll bloody do it again if you’re not careful.
Naarm/Melbourne. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/leenavand
Jade Fae Britzman @jadefae.bsky.social https://jadefae.com
She/They/Fae. QA at a large game studio. I make Video Games, and write about a variety of media. RMIT University class of 2024 Game Design Grad. Melbourne/Naarm.
Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
Luke Mitchell 🎮🐻 @checkpointboss.bsky.social 🏳️🌈He/Him. PR at Zero Latency VR | Editor-in-Chief, Checkpoint Gaming - @CheckpointAU | Award winning journalist & radio producer who sometimes brags.
Alayna Cole @wordsbyalayna.bsky.social When asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Alayna always said, "An author!" Now she is an author, but she intends to never grow up.
Checkpoint Gaming @checkpointau.bsky.social Join us every Saturday 2PM on JOY94.9 for all the latest news, reviews & more in the gaming world! Broadcasting nationwide on the Community Radio Network.
Find out more from us here: https://checkpointgaming.net/ or
linktr.ee/checkpointau
pc2000s @pc2000s.bsky.social He/him. Captures of games from 1995 - 2006ish. Posts about whatever.
All clips posted captured by me unless credited otherwise.
youtube https://youtube.com/@pc2000s
aesthetics discord http://discord.gg/Ycs9XA5NeH
Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/pc2000s
Jess Zammit @jesszam.bsky.social Games writer, reviewer, journalist, researcher, designer, producer and diversity advocate. Writer on Puzzle Quest 3/Matchmaker: Dungeon Heart. Deputy Editor @ Player2.net.au . Prev: Represent Me, Mighty Kingdom, Infinity Plus Two. She/her 🏳️🌈
ruby! @rubyinnes.bsky.social agent of chaos at massive monster & back pocket | former slopstress at kotaku au | illustrator
Renee O'flynn @scree.bsky.social Freelance video game journalist. Reviewer for Qualbert.com. Making content for Switchaboo and the IndiEXP.
Apologies will happen.
Contact me! Scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Portfolio: (in progress) http://scree66.wordpress.com
BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social + paperhousegames.com
+ Paperbark | Wood & Weather
+ self destructive optimist
was cool until you got to know me
Alice Walsh @scoutrager.bsky.social ✨ Melbourne Based
🎨 2D/3D Artist + Art Director for Animation + Games
🐳 Art Director @ Hipster Whale
🐶 prev. Art Director @ Bluey
https://scoutrager.carrd.co/
Jenny | Kimchica 🌻🔜 PAX West & Twitchcon @kimchica.bsky.social 🩷💙💜 Currently @ Wholesome Games, Soft Not Weak 🌱 Check out my game discussion club, @geeksandgrounds.bsky.social! Part of @theindiecouncil.com 🎮 loves to talk indie games, journaling, and dance.
💌 Personal Biz: jenny@kimchica.com
🫶🏼 She/her
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
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
grace mahoney! @gracemahoney.bsky.social unironic saints row enjoyer
she/her | admin & ops @ hipster whale 🐔
✉ thegracemahoney@gmail.com
Lucy✨ @untitledlucegame.bsky.social Short, fast and loud✨🏳️🌈
Illustrator and Game Dev based in Naarm/Melbourne.
🍦Art Wizard at Frosty Games Fest
🔫Drew the memes for 420BLAZEIT:2
🎨Currently making art for other wonderful folks
NO AI/NO NFTs🗑️
Art queries go to heylucymutimer@gmail.com
Jamie Galea @jamiegalea.bsky.social Sometimes makes appearances on television, talking about video games, now trying to figure out what to do next. Australian living in Australia, don't get it twisted.
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.
Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com I made Cult of the Lamb 🕹Accessibility Advocate 🤔Opinions are mine (and probably bad)
Senior Developer at SMG Studio
willmesilane.com
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
AstroKerrie @astrokerrie.bsky.social Content at PAX Aus.
🌻 Previous: ESLAustralia/DreamHack, Crunchyroll/AnimeLab ANZ ✨ She/Her 🍋
CalliePepper @calliepepper.bsky.social Documentation Droid, Writer, Developer, Producer, Award winning queer, Staff at VRDancing, VRChat robogoblin. They/them. Data is eternal
https://linktr.ee/calliepepper
Sarah Pavlich @thegooflord.bsky.social Freelance QA Analyst and union organiser | A lovely QA person that loves QA | Join your union @gameworkersau.bsky.social | They/Them
Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam! @kinmoku.bsky.social Independent Game Developer – Made One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE, now working on Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart | IGF | Indie Cup | Previous EA Chillingo | Brit residing in Germany | Invisibly disabled | She/They 🖤🩶🤍💜
www.kinmoku.games
kv @trepegroupie1.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at covergeek.com
Team Frosty Games Fest (as seen at Summer Game Fest!)
he/they
📧: kieron@covergeek.com
Zach Jackson @zachjackson.bsky.social Point-and-click connoisseur. Bleeds Passiona. Carlton, Burnley & SJ Sharks fan.