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Craig @craigpearson.bsky.social BFF to cats. From Glasgow, but in Dundee. Would rather be on a bike.
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Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social 🎮 Product Manager & UX Lead, 1TK Games
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Caspar Field @casparfield.bsky.social Game dev leadership, management, and production | Ex-nDreams, CA, Wish Studios, Relentless, Eidos, Argonaut, DC-UK, Edge | Co-inventor PlayLink | 9x BAFTA judge | 2x Dad | Gamer since the 70s! | fieldgames.co.uk
Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social Freelance journalist, critic and consultant. Bylines at The Guardian, PC Gamer, NME, Eurogamer and more. FPS sicko. Immersive sim geek. Contact: rick@ricklane.co.uk
Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com Video game critic. Final Boss @RPGSite.net & @Respec.net. Ronin writer & consultant. Formerly Editor-at-large for Eurogamer/VG247.
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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
Tom Regan @grapedosmil.bsky.social Freelance journalist & consultant. BAFTA member. Editor of the NES-ential Celebration book. Words in The Guardian, GQ, The Verge, Metal Hammer, Fandom, Shortlist, NME, Gamesradar, Kotaku, IGN, Gamespot, VGC, EDGE, etc https://linktr.ee/tomreganwrites
Nick Chester @nickchester.bsky.social VP of Commercial and Portfolio Development @ Annapurna // Enjoys games, horror, and loud noises
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social Senior Reporter @ Kotaku
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social Interim Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku
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Leo Tan @electricleo.bsky.social 20 years in the videogames industry has pushed out all real world knowledge. All that is left is Pokemon match-ups and Virtua Fighter frame data.
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
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Vincent Acovino @vincentacovino.bsky.social producer / games journalist at NPR
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Jack Attridge @attridge.bsky.social Creative Director at Supermassive Games. Founder of Flavourworks (acquired by Telltale Games). @AttridgeJack on tweeter
Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social Senior Director and Video Game Industry Advisor at Circana. Formerly of Activision and Warner Bros Games. Kaboom! Bucket Brigade member since 1982.
Jordan Middler @jordanmiddler.bsky.social Journalist, VGC.
Host, The VGC Podcast.
Scotland.
John O’Shea @johnoshea.bsky.social Creative Director & Co-CEO National Videogame Museum, Sheffield, UK
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and
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Steve Hogarty @misterbrilliant.bsky.social a writer for cool magazines about stuff
Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social lingering phantom of a journalist for the verge, wired, rolling stone, the new york times, and more. former book designer. cfs/me. find me at geoffreybunting.co.uk for now. he/him.
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Crossplay @crossplayblog.bsky.social A newsletter at the intersection of parenting and video games by longtime games reporter and father of two kids, Patrick Klepek. Subscribe now at https://crossplay.news
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Marie Dealessandri @mariedeal.bsky.social Award-winning writer & editor
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social Video game critic, Editor-at-Large @ Polygon. Formerly Digital Trends, Inverse, Hard Drive
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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social I write stories about the games industry. Formerly at 1UP and Polygon. Now working on @designroom.site.
Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social |General Manager, 20th Century Games |
|VP, Business Dev for Disney/Pixar, Lucas & 20C Games |
|Ex-PlayStation, Ex-Harmonix // Ex-The Main Drag Drummer|
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Loves games, music, TV, my wife & kid.
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
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Kim Snaith @kimsnaith.bsky.social Writer and editor. Owns & runs GameSpew.com and ThatBrickSite.com. Freelance at Space and others. Lover of cosy games, Lego, reading and drinking tea. Available for work 📝
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Chris Tapsell @christapsell.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, Eurogamer. He/him.
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Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
Tom Francis @pentadact.com Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/
Steffan Powell @steffanpowell.bsky.social Presenter + Journalist | Doctor Who Unleashed BBC Three | Press X to Continue podcast | 5Live | S4C | ex BBC Gaming + Culture Correspondent | R1 Newsbeat | Cymro 🏴
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
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
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Luke Hebblethwaite @lukethehebble.bsky.social Video games / music / creative industries kinda guy.
Former Head of Games at BAFTA, prev. Insight Manger at Ukie
Runs UK Games Composers: https://gamescomposers.co.uk/
Here to fight the good fight for games.
Rip 'n tear until it is done.
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social writer, editor. ✍️ in ny times, sf chron, vox, and more. past: culture editor @ polygon, contributing editor @ catapult, writer @ vice. taiwanese american. actually just two small rabbits in a trenchcoat
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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 20 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally
Aaron Potter @aaronpotter.bsky.social Video game journalist for @mirror.co.uk | Host of Expert Mode on YouTube | Former freelance writer at EDGE, NME, WIRED and more | Indie game book author | ✉️: aaron.potter@reachplc.com
Shahid Kamal Ahmad @dancingmonkeys.net “A punk existentialist coder alive to his mortality, standing in wonder at the world”
I make Reverie, the journal app: freeholder.dev
I wrote Code is Just and Chimera
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Matthew Castle @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social Magazine killer, podcast maker.
Co-host of The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast.
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Sarah Thwaites @sarahathwaites.bsky.social freelance writer & consultant | seen @ Game Informer, IGN, Polygon, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Edge, Tech Radar, NME + more | she/they | 🇦🇺 in ? ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
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Samuel Horti @samuelhorti.bsky.social Freelance editor and reporter, mainly about video games for PC Gamer, IGN, Rock Paper Shotgun, Remap Radio, and many others.
Previously BBC News and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Portfolio is samuelhorti.com / email sphorti@gmail.com
Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social Culture on computers, mostly | ✍ The Verge, FT, The Ringer, The Nation, ArtReview, Eurogamer, The Guardian, Vulture | ✉️ lewisjohngordon~at~gmail~dot~com | he/him
Dom Pepin @dompepin.bsky.social Dep Ed Director, Eurogamer. Ex-EiC, VG247. High Scores column, The Guardian. Dog person. Intersectional. Queer. Enby. Polyam.
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Patrick Garratt @patlike.bsky.social ➡️ EIC of Knowledge, Edge's videogame industry newsletter
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