Sam Howitt @samuelhowitt.bsky.social I wrote a lot about Final Fantasy and now I'm branching out to other videogames. They/Them
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Andreas Inderwildi @mashxtomuse.bsky.social Writer, medievalist & game critic, seen @ Eurogamer, RPS, KotakuUK, Edge, Wireframe &c. Author of the upcoming book Mundaun: Design Works www.lostincult.co.uk/mundaun. Writes stuff at www.mashxtomuse.com. he/him
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social Newsletters on classic video games and sports labor, regular at Baseball Prospectus, ex-Paste, A.V. Club, etc. Editor at FOX Sports. he/him
https://retroxp.beehiiv.com
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https://www.avclub.com/author/marc-normandin
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Press START @press-startpod.bsky.social Three Gen Z gamers and journalists break down the latest and their favorites in all things gaming. Hosted by Tori, Noah and Nathaniel.
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NATE! @corndruid.bsky.social chronic chaotic good alignment. gotta phd in english from somewhere. abolish the prisons, demolish the oil companies, wear big boots. he/him
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Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social extremely hireable games journalist, co-host of @girlmodepod.bsky.social, @insequence.pictures, @dotzip.online and twitch.tv/parallelplayers!
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Sid Menon @beamsplashx.wethoughtaboutgames.com the he/him who made every joke. co-hosting @bghof.com, hosting/editing We Thought About Games, and musicking as NETWORKS. all my posts are good
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Jeremy Antley @jantley.bsky.social 🇷🇺History PhD / Game Studies / Wargames / Left-Handed
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📝 Decoding the Haunted Screen (on external references in Magic: the Gathering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9AxN4CA4vWjkEgbhfWK9TJlUsJ5q-c/view?usp=drivesdk
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Abby Denton @abbydenton.com Abby Denton thinks about Digimon whenever she is sad and you should too. Likes to kiss her novia Marian Gonzalez. Writer of the comic GAMER MOM and the sci-fi sitcom CYBER CAFE. Matthew 25:40.
wusstunes @wusstunes.bsky.social Matches
inventor of HighGuard
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Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social Author, screenwriter and podcaster. https://markstaywrites.com/all-the-links/
Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social freelance culture writer 🍏 book & game editor ☕ narrative designer 🎲 short (& long) fiction author 📚 ace attorney podcast host @turnaboutbreakdown.bsky.social 🌈 basically if it involves words i'll do it 🌙 jaycastello.com 🦢 they/she- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
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
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone NYT-bestselling, US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. PFP is Nomi Sunrider as drawn by David Roach.
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Girl Mode Podcast @girlmodepod.bsky.social A podcast about games and media by two trans women with too many opinions and too much free time.
hosted by @robinbombus.bsky.social and @thewillarowe.bsky.social
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. AI bad. 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
izzy kestrel @iznaut.com 🎮 Tech Designer on @blanksword.bsky.social (prev Astra Logical, No Goblin, Funomena)
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Zach Davis @hippochippies.bsky.social he/him - game dev friend - pokemon snap was fun
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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com Writing a British history of popular video games one UK sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 1988. Also into pop music and writing on The Singles Jukebox. He/him. http://www.superchartisland.com
DonE @optional.bsky.social let me fish out my sociologist card from my old wallet, I think it said it was good for life
co-managing ed @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social
previous at Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, Bullet Points Monthly, Wireframe, Polygon, Symbolic Interaction & more
A.E. Kincaid (Amy) @aekincaid.bsky.social Humorous fantasy author. Mom. Pie and coffee enthusiast. Not necessarily in that order. I write about a snarky demon & inept human hero bound together on a quest to save the world.
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Joe Köller @joekllr.bsky.social He/him - Ex-critic, reformed poster, recidivist gamer.
Amelia Emberwing @thatwitchmia.bsky.social Editor, critic & host for hire. Currently a contributing editor @ FANGORIA, with bylines at TheWrap, Backstage, The A.V. Club & more. Former IGN & FuturePLC. CCA | TCA
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madeline! @mads.haus 📖 PENITENTS (Ghoulish, October ‘26)
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Ada 🏳️⚧️ ⟅㋡⟆ @sirwol.bsky.social Game programmer (and designer), writer, nature lover. Puzzles, conlangs, history and mythology. Fled the city to live on a farm, but bad at farming 🙄
Tasmanian. AuDHD. Married to @ratbag.bsky.social. Poly. She/Her (Trans Lesbian - HRT since 18/3/24).
Ruth Cassidy @velcrocyborg.bsky.social games critic and journalist · excessive use of Emphatic Title Case · bylines including Unwinnable, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, and more · they/them · linktr.ee/ruthvcassidy
mattie @mattiebrice.bsky.social live artist and ritual designer✨
Director of the Speculative Intimacies Lab @ UCSC’s Performance, Play, & Design department
axe @wingblade.bsky.social cute and deranged. involved in Various local and online arts but not trying to sell you anything. haunting the only tri-state on the planet (New Jersey).
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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at GameDeveloper.com, Berklee College of Music game design lecturer, BJJ Purple Belt 🤼♀️, hobbyist game dev and pixel artist, sometimes screenwriter, fitness dork, volunteer EMT. She/her.
dymphna @dymphna.bsky.social we're so back as possible under the circumstances
Bryn @feelthebryn.bsky.social He/Him - Associate Commerce Editor @ Esquire
Video games. Labor.
uel @greaterrealityarea.net uel aramchek. tarot, writing, high weirdness. minneapolis based.
greaterrealityarea.net, formerly compoundeye.substack.com, northofreality.com
Rourke Bywater @rourke.bsky.social Narrative Designer @ Hidden Door. lesbian. 💜 procedural systems, women, folk music + art with a touch of melancholy and bitterness. Organizer @ Roguelike Celebration
dani >:3 @handle.invalid she/they | 28 | queer gothic scholar | game designer
👩🏻🏫 game design lecturer @ UCSC
🎓 BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC
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ttrpg designer // writer // horror sicko
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com Failed Media Critic, Washed Up YouTuber, Formally Trained Self-Loather | Professional also-ran | Cringe Elemental | (he/him) | linktr.ee/campster
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer • narrative designer • lesbian • nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
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
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Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Cian Maher @cianmaher0.bsky.social Franchise & Lore Designer at CD PROJEKT RED. Once won a pub quiz with a team called Geralt of Trivia
grace @gracemachine.bsky.social Writer, critic, co-editor @tier-review.com
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social game? designer??
Forget Starlight releasing soon. currently ???.
Amberspire, The Banished Vault, and others, formerly of Bithell Games. Blog at blog.enceledean.com, analog games at enceledean.itch.io, design podcast at paperlabyrinths.com.
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maddi [jock era] @maddilo.bsky.social soup enthusiast, knitter, weightlifter, editor for Sidequest.zone. sometimes I write about video games.
TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social I host the Great Australian Bake-Off. Check out twitch.tv/TomWalker and the podcast “BigSoftTitty.png” with my cool wife Demi
Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app Cat parent. Coffee Addict.Opinions are my own.Black Software Engineer
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wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social Opinion-haver at playcritically.com. #Indie reviewer of indie videogames. Your post reminds me of a Simpsons episode. he/him
Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social Narrative lead @ Obsidian Entertainment, writer, occasional photographer
katedollarhyde.com
boyslop @nicanor.bsky.social Award winning documentary filmmaker. Award losing games critic. Writer-slightly-less-for-hire.
Wait I have a blog: https://carlitocalzone.neocities.org/
nat is at pax. @natclayton.bsky.social girl who makes levels
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Leftist, she/her
Pansexual
Polyamorous
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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
Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social Digital Editor
PhD in Medieval lit📚
Columnist @ Unwinnable Magazine 💻
Books Editor @ Exploits
Words @ Polygon, Post45, Digital Trends, Edge, etc.✏️
https://emily-price.neocities.org
inquiries: eaprice.work@gmail.com
Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social (he/him) | Friend of Jughead | Professional DC Comics Expert and host of Insert Credit. Never stop reading comics. | https://ko-fi.com/alexjaffe
Mel Stone @melstone.xyz music, etc.
melstone.ffm.to/sorrow
John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social Video Editor + Senior Staff Writer for
Digital Foundry and creator of DF Retro! Open to contract work!
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catherine @cathroon.itch.io 32 | 🏳️⚧️ gamedev | she/her
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter and proud union member 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
Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social ✨ i’m like if tifa lockhart loved carbs
☕️ features editor @gamespot.com
🌙 into grand stories, rpgs, art, mtg, anime, coffee & esoterica
🔮 as seen at giant bomb, kinda funny, game informer, the av club, collider, uproxx & uppercut
OF QUARTZ @ofquartz.bsky.social Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Too horny to die
Too Cringe toLive
FREAK VALHALLA HERE I CUM
juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com journalist girl
junoryleejournalism.com
venmo.com/u/junoschultz
Paypal: juno(dot)stump(at)gmail
https://ko-fi.com/junostump
Patreon.com/junorylee for cool extras
junoryleeschultz.darkroom.com
Alexandra Orlando @alexgorlando.bsky.social Community Director at Kitfox Games 🦊
Dwarf Fortress | Streets of Fortuna | Caves of Qud | Thousand Hells | Ostranauts
She/Her
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
https://linktr.ee/thewillarowe
the illustrated embodiment of the day @dunestars.bsky.social
they/them
Dia Lacina @dialacina.com The angry brown game critic who stole your girl & your PlayStation
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Janet @ PAX West @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 📍
Santi Leguiza @santileguiza.com He/Him|Demi|🇦🇷| Seen at TheGamer, Eurogamer, Fanbyte, PCGamer, PCGamesN, The Escapist, and many more. Opinions are my own.
Wanna check my work? santileguiza.com
Deep Hell Skeleton @deephelldotcom.bsky.social full time skeleton she/her
writing at @deep-hell.com, @startmenu.co.uk
hollydrivethru.carrd.co
will NOT kill you
"Employed Yapist" Ella Tailor @garaktailor.com 🔞MDNI
You can not kill me in a way that matters.
Solidarity Forever
Freelance Audio Editor
Budtender
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@itsallgraps.bsky.social
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K. Guillory @kgpaints.bsky.social Fine artist. I paint the internet.
kgpaints.net
Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social he/him/his 40’s
Actor/Writer/Co-host of Gamers With Jobs Conference Call podcast.
Film- https://vimeo.com/324892134
Podcast- GamersWithJobs.com
Theatre- http://vimeo.com/1022915026
Fiscally Communist, socially Anarchist, extremely pro-Oxford comma.
Xalavier Nelson Jr. @ Full Indie Vancouver @writnelson.bsky.social Running @StrangeScaffold.bsky.social Wrote for MtG, Borderlands 4, I Am Your Beast & more. Lead VA in Hellraiser: Revival. BAFTA nom. Christian! He/Him. Repped by CAA.
Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reporter
text me on signal @ nicolecarpenter.87
email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com
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 🌻🦇
Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com Video Game Vids: YouTube.com/tamoorh
Bonfire Sit: https://player.gg/publications/bonfire-sit
GSW Vids: youtube.com/@justuspodcasts
Instagram: instagram.com/tamoorh
Contact: businesstamoorh@gmail.com
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
sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com party game designer/shitpost historian/writer/gaming himbo/MBMBaM heely guy/your maybe future 78th favorite pro wrestler. He/Him SamGreszes@mstdn.social @samgreszes on hive and twitter
discord: robotsfightingdinosaurs
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
golden apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social your neighborhood feminist crank // freelance media critic // Community mod for @Aftermath.site and @mothership.blog // game photographer //(she/they)
av: @pugcrumbs.bsky.social
#overwatch #gamephotography
https://muckrack.com/appleciderwitch
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
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.
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author