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Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Reginald T. Gardner, back in NYC @higheredgaming.bsky.social Independent academic in and around Game Studies, digital culture & media. Researcher, educator, and player writing about games, communities, and the cultures we build around play. Now Playing: ZZZ, NTE, Big Walk, Tokon, Palworld, Forza6 & Valheim
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📗📕📘 README: http://jisaacgadient.com 🌐 🔗 https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Shivam Astier @shivamastier.bsky.social 🌙 Queer Amazigh designer writing on media & game studies and finding resonance in Hinduism & jazz (double bass) while navigating disability. ⛵ Paris, France 🔗 instagram.com/shivamastier ⚓ medium.com/@shivamastier 🌌 Starfield by Bethesda
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism 🧵: sushilovinfun 🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social 🐦: maxwellfoxman
David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
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 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com Founder + EIC: non-trivial.games YouTube: TheCrossoverAppeal. thecrossoverappeal.com for recs + essays Games writing, music writing. Formerly games studies. Bylines: Pixelbyte Gaming, JetsonPlaysGames, Exploits, Uppercut, Barely Textual. 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽
Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
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.
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Janno Reincke @jannoreincke.bsky.social PhD researcher in Digital Humanities @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de Researching Video Games, Multimodality, Narrative and Environmental Discourse
Pablo Torre @pablo.show 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/@pablotorrefindsout 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pablo-torre-finds-out/id1685093486 📩 www.pablo.show/about
Amanda Jones-Rincon, PhD @jonesrincon.bsky.social University Lecturer - Social & Media Psychology PhD focusing on gaming and cognition - Speedrunner under @drmustachecat on Twitch. Cross-Stitches on commission ❤️ Poly Queer/Non-Binary - they/them
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase writer/editor at The Beaverton she/her | Vancouver B.C. Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/ If you wanna criticize me, pay here first: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
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.
AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social Interim Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku Contact: ethan.gach@kotaku.com / ethangach on Discord Secure email: ethangach@protonmail.com / 2673263042 for Signal Newsletter at https://deadgame.substack.com/
Michael J Armstrong @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social Operations research professor, Brock University. I teach quality improvement & game theory. I research business aspects of legal cannabis. Previously studied missile warfare. https://brocku.ca/goodman/faculty-research/faculty-directory/michael-armstrong/
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/
Chunck Trafagander @chunck.bsky.social I do tutorials for game stuff. http://youtube.com/c/getlearnt https://www.artstation.com/getlearnt /// Working on Tony Hawk's Battleground 3
Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social The world's #1 used book store. Come visit us at the edge of eternity. store: https://paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/
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.
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too. mothership.blog
Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Game Studies at ICCIT, U Toronto Mississauga. Researches games, systems, AI/ML, and digital media. www.samuelpizelo.com
Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social pizza advocate; english professor
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London. Co-director MA Digital Futures. Author of Videogames, Identity & Digital Subjectivity (Routledge 2017) and Artgames after Gamergate (Palgrave 2025): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032044341
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social Erasmus Rotterdam University - Lecturer - Communications Ph.D. academic precariat - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism
Phil Russell @3dsisqo.bsky.social Black writer. Currently @ Sonos. Prev: Narrative on Thirsty Suitors. Host of Origin Story podcast. Writing all over the internet. www.philrussell.me
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
RupertDEV @coryrupert.bsky.social Indie Game Designer making the Horror Game Anthology Series B10CK https://strangepixelstudio.itch.io/b10ck Live Operations Specialist working on Marvel Contest of Champions (My views are my own and don't reflect Kabam)
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Eric Stein (he/him) @steinea.bsky.social Producer at EA SPORTS Games researcher Former game development instructor Tabletop game designer Occasional poet steinea.ca / steinea.fyi
Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social Labour Studies Professor at Brock University | Teach & research collective bargaining, unions & labour politics | brocku.ca/lsavage
Toronto Star @thestar.com Canada's biggest daily newspaper thestar.com
Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies. Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
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. Stay tuned for news on presenting at or attending the next QGCon! https://www.qgcon.org/
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University 📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018). End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Jeffrey @geoffwhill.bsky.social Ugly bag of mostly water. he/him. Aussie in London!
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social A community blog for videogame criticism and the preservation thereof. Publishers of This Week in Videogame Blogging and many fine Critical Compilations! https://critical-distance.com
Stream Evil @streamevil-mlab.bsky.social The official account for Stream Evil, a research-creation project brought to you by Dr. Mia Consalvo's MLab! Team: Beck, Josh, Jules, and Justin Outlaws! You ready for the adventure of a lifetime? https://www.miaconsalvo.com/stream-evil
Digital Humanities at Brock University @brock-ddh.bsky.social The Department of Digital Humanities is a teaching and research unit that focuses on the intersection of interactive technologies and the humanities. brocku.ca/dh
Mike Piero 🏳️‍🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
CSDH / SCHN @csdhschn.bsky.social The Canadian Society of Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques fosters work in the digital humanities in Canada’s two official languages
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social 🇷🇺History PhD / Game Studies / Wargames / Left-Handed 🗺️Portland, OR 📝 Decoding the Haunted Screen (on external references in Magic: the Gathering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9AxN4CA4vWjkEgbhfWK9TJlUsJ5q-c/view?usp=drivesdk
Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social Senior writer @breachmedia.ca Website: breachmedia.ca Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686 Bookings: Scott Sellers ssellers@penguinrandomhouse.com
Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social gay artist, game dev // website: https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand just released Radiator Forever, a gay game collection: https://radiator.debacle.us making Tryhard, a gay rugby RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social Dad. Making Game Boy games: Roguecraft GB, OutRun GB, Cave Dave, Hero GP, Starseed, Block Droppin, Word Forward + more. I will pet your dog!
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Senior Vice President of Woke 5
Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social PhD in history @utoronto.ca | early modern festivals and military history |Sound Studies and DH | Singer | Coordinator, Digital Soundscapes Project @decimauot.bsky.social | She/her Website: https://heathernsmith.com/
Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social Leftist. Cinephile. Video game person. Shares initials with Cayce Pollard.
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.
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
Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University MMU UCU committee I'm a political economist of the internet www.danieljamesjoseph.net
headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com podcasts at abnormal mapping, posting here these days
@amayer.bsky.social @amayer.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
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/
Thad Harroun @thadharroun.bsky.social Physics Brock University
No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com They/Them // digital culture and its discontents // anarchist // noescapevg.com noescapevg@gmail.com
Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) counters, monitors, and exposes far-right hate movements, groups, and figures. Fully independent. www.antihate.ca | info@antihate.ca
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
azure @azureii.bsky.social hi hello, azure here. twitch mod, future video essayist, occasional artist. 🇨🇦🇨🇿 researching games and live-streaming 🦋
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/
The Games Institute @thegamesinstitute.bsky.social Advancing research and knowledge about games and interactive technologies. https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/ https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/news
Alexandra Orlando 🔜 Gamescom @alexgorlando.bsky.social Community Director at Kitfox Games 🦊 Dwarf Fortress | Streets of Fortuna | Caves of Qud | Thousand Hells | Ostranauts She/Her
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.
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social forbes' 7.4 billion under 7.4 billion.
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries
Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
Nadia Di Leo @nadiadileo.bsky.social Currently grinding through my first year as a PhD student in Educational Sciences. There are no restrictive character creation limits. I've got a legendary skill tree in wordplay and a critical hit rate against inequalities in digital spaces.
Andy Richter @andyrichter.co Insta: @richtercommaandy TikTok: @AndyRichterTikTok Podcast: The Three Questions Call In Show on Sirius XM https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn1XQMtQTx8JVuafOOEWBkdqDUHPXlX4KShxmuMSgwGt3pkQ/viewform?pli=1
Vincent Paquin @vincepaquin.bsky.social I study digital culture(s) and youth mental health. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, Montréal ~ him/lui
Christine Gundermann @cgpublichistory.bsky.social Prof. für Public History an der Universität zu Köln/ Sprecherin der AG PublicHistory im VHD/ KGD Arbeitsgruppe Historische Lernorte/ privat
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social Director of Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas. Studio Design Director @ Obsidian Entertainment. 🇺🇸EN/🇩🇪DE ♂ Interview/conference inquiries to pr@obsidian.net
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.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment - Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries - Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions - PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea - Editorial Board @ Multiplay
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. Project C for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Coffee Ryan ☕🇨🇦 (Games with Coffee) 🎮 FFVII Rebirth [SW2] @gameswithcoffee.bsky.social Writer Extraordinaire. Author of the Games with Coffee blog and the Mobius VII fanfiction project. Owner/ operator & EIC of The Pixels. Also writes words about video games. Sonic, Final Fantasy and Zelda fan. Lifelong coffee addict ☕
The Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social Former blue collar Pennsylvania boy. Interdisciplinary scholar and PhD student in Canada. I study the creation and consumption of conflict information in digital media. thetattooedhistorian.com
Jen Woronow 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @thejauntycrow.bsky.social 🔹️What war does to people, communities & the planet. 🔹️Visual Culture of Conflict 🔹️Blogs & art when I feel like it Not a war hawk or peace dove. Just a jaunty crow. (she/her) https://thejauntycrow.substack.com/
Neil Dennis 🇨🇦🍁🕊️🇺🇦 @neildennis.bsky.social Proud Canadian Anti fascist. Pro democracy. Equality for all, it harms no one. No DMs please. I won't respond.
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!"