M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red marxist art & video game critic
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
Rob 🟡 @fawnrelic.bsky.social Production Lead at Ysbryd Games @ysbryd.net (WORLD OF HORROR, LOVE ETERNAL, Demonschool, VA-11 Hall-A) ✣ Freelance artist (seen in Heartworm, Unwinnable) ✣ Fishing Hamlet gentrifier ✣ Bi ✣ He/Him
📍 London
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/fawnrelic/
Ben Macready @macreadymusings.bsky.social Freelance writer for @edhrec.com, @cardgamer.com, @wargamer.com, and @superjumpmagazine.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macreadymusings
Journalism portfolio: https://benjaminmacready.journoportfolio.com
(He/Him)
Mr Luke Kemp esq. @luke-k.bsky.social He/him. Free range word layer. Contributed to every issue of PLAY Magazine (RIP). Has also been spotted at GamesMaster, Edge, Eurogamer, GamesRadar, GamesIndustry[dot]biz, Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer, The Guardian, SFX, more.
Kathryn Hemmann @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social Reader of books and player of games. College professor and pokémon trainer. Writes about media and society. In love with monsters and magic.
🌿 https://digitalfantasydiary.com/ 🌿
Gavin Craig @craiggav.bsky.social Weird, thoughtful, and quiet. Not necessarily in that order.
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Filipe Urriça @filipeurrica.bsky.social Writing about how games are made.
Interviews, systems, decisions most players never notice.
📨 Systems of Play
Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social Head of Student Programs, @scholarslab. DH, pedagogy, videogames. Co-VP @ach.bsky.social. Board @JITpedagogy.
_Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change_ F26 w/ Open Book Publishers.
More info at walshbr.com.
Ludica @ludicamag.com Web magazine di cultura videoludica.
Critica, studi, libri sui videogiochi.
www.ludicamag.com
Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social Freelance Games and Media Reporter. Jr. Producer at Strange Scaffold. Formerly Inverse. Words at, RPG Site, Rolling Stone, more. RPG aficionado. Bisexual.He/they. madsenhayes@Gmail.com. Signal: HayesM.26
Thesaurus Rex (They/Them) @nukelassic.bsky.social Writer, editor, and asks lots of questions about videogames. | Writing a little, want to write more. | https://thethesaurusrex.com | They/Them
hiero melão 🍈 @lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social 🇧🇷🏳️⚧️, qualquer pronome. fã de matcha. jornalista de game. perfil pessoal. PT-BR/ENG/N4日本語 OK
any pronouns, game journo (unwinnable, startmenu, into the spine, deleted saves), opinions my own
http://linktr.ee/hierodelima
inquiries - hierodelima@hotmail.com
Chris Revelle @chris-rrrr.bsky.social Contributing writer at Pajiba and all-around media chatterbox 
Mer @drowwpoison.bsky.social (she/her) I write about art and games 👾 nyc 👾
words at GameObserver, Unwinnable, IMPULSE, Art Spiel and TUSSLE
mmora.writes@gmail.com
grace @gracemachine.bsky.social Writer, critic, co-editor @tier-review.com
vehe @vehement-ly.bsky.social writer, other things. she/they
https://vehemently.carrd.co/
pfp actionpilot
lesbian al-gaib 🇵🇸 @unethicalcoffee.bsky.social
• writer: https://muckrack.com/sara-khan-9
• co-founder, streamer, content creator: @gameassistyt.bsky.social
• organiser: @nogamesforgenocide.com
🧡🤍💜 • 29, they/she
🇵🇸 حرروا فلسطين
Niv M. Sultan @nivmsultan.bsky.social videogame critic at Slant Magazine, other stuff elsewhere. he/him. nivmsultan.com
Diego Cinelli @biecosyd.bsky.social Scrivo, perché credo che scrivere sia una bella cosa. Mi occupo principalmente di videogiochi, ma capita spesso che all'interno dei miei discorsi si infiltrino altre passioni che mi caratterizzano.
Contatti e link: https://linktr.ee/diegosydcinelli
David Cole @coledone.com Just a real humdinger.
Emma Kostopolus @glassethound.bsky.social Long time Uatu the Watcher, first time Uatu the Caller.
Art, Words, and Cats. All opinions are an inescapable palimpsest of everyone and everything I have ever encountered.
Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social She/Her
Lettering artist & illustrator for the ttrpg nerds✨ 🌟Website alderdoodle.co.uk
🌟Freebies https://ko-fi.com/alderdoodle
🌟Email hello@alderdoodle.co.uk
📍Cayman Islands
KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social writer & editor, open for work! kmnelsonmail (at) gmail (dot) com // managing editor, startmenu.co.uk // editor/QA, Interstate 35, @radiantarray.bsky.social // editor, deletedsaves.com // she/they
Rogue @rogue.site A video game website run by humans.
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Christopher Spina @quiltedpoints.net Reader and critic.
Collected works: quiltedpoints.net
Cole @coleboy.bsky.social Atlantic Canada
Writer (derogatory)
https://asilaytrying.substack.com
Branden Lizardi @lizardrock.bsky.social Games Writer person. Evergreen Editor at TheGamer.com. I also have thelizardrock.com that I never post on anymore.
James Tocchio @jamestocchio.bsky.social ✏️Games writer working for UploadVR, and gratefully published in magazines, books, and online.
👋 https://www.clippings.me/users/jamestocchio
📝Editor at http://CasualPhotophile.com
📷Owner http://Fstopcameras.com
🧡Nerd at http://GGDreamcast.com
bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com writer, designer, gamemaker
they/she
editorial intern @pcmag.com
beewertheimer.com
Jack Dunn @oddjackalope.bsky.social NYC-based Writer, Amateur Youtuber, mostly about video games, other times about history -- https://www.youtube.com/@OddJackalope
jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social CompLit PhD at Harvard, yiddish and digital humanities
Bill Coberly @billcoberly.bsky.social Born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Substack: billcoberly.substack.com
Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com On YouTube as TheCrossoverAppeal.
At thecrossoverappeal.com for commentary, recs, + essays
Games writing, music writing. Formerly games studies.
CCM explains it all.
Bylines: Pixelbyte Gaming, JetsonPlaysGames, Exploits, Uppercut, Barely Textual.
🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social essayist, critic, journalist
author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
words: Unwinnable, VGC, Polygon, GR+, RPS, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Mothership, Stop Caring, Deleted Saves, Skybox
https://ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/
she/her
Joseph Stanichar @josephstanichar.bsky.social Reporter for the Williston Herald in Williston, ND. Past bylines at Game Informer, Paste Magazine, Looper and the Morrison County Record. Community theater actor!
Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social Sr. Editorial Manager at Boxed.gg. Former Sr. Editor at IGN. 교포. COYS. https://www.mattkimwrites.com/
Samantha Trzinski, PhD @srtrzinski.bsky.social PhD in 19th-century British literature at The Ohio State University. Contributing Editor with Gamers with Glasses.
hannan a. @hannanazmir.bsky.social recovering writer (they/she/dia)
bylines in unwinnable, macaranga and more.
www.hannanazmir.com
Quimbles @quimbles.bsky.social video essayist, writer, bozo. they/he/she
Writing: https://unwinnable.com/author/quinn-quimby/
Videos: https://youtube.com/quimbles
Dayten Rose @daytenrose.bsky.social Ludonarratively dissonant
Words in Rock Paper Shotgun, Unwinnable, Thinky Games, GamesRadar+, Into the Spine
Freelance! Hire me!!
dayten.rose@gmail.com
KCMO
Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social I skeet about stuff and blog sometimes. Managing Editor @yattatachi.com Portfolio https://awescott.carrd.co/ Bylines: Crunchyroll News, Comics Beat, Anime Herald, startmenu, scrmbl etc. Tweets+opinions are my own.
shovda @shovda.bsky.social Poet (Sara Hovda) and SMW Kaizo streamer (shovda). I post about both.
Harri @heyriette.bsky.social Digital dude | (They/them) | cartoonarium guy for @massmice.bsky.social | 🇵🇭
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
drop me a line: jriverawrites@proton.me
Wallace @exalclaw.com Wallace Truesdale: Runs exalclaw.com | Seen at Unwinnable, Stop Caring, Mothership, etc. | Weak against soft cookies | he/him
📬: exalclaw@proton.me
Skybox @skyboxcritics.com Skyboxcritics.com
Co-founded by
@brianbarnett.bsky.social
@edgarallanbro.bsky.social
@hokutolucas.bsky.social
A worker-owned games media site.
www.patreon.com/skyboxcritics
https://ko-fi.com/skyboxcritics
Pitches: pitches@skyboxcritics.com
J @thetenthletter.bsky.social he/him/any | 22 | Writer for startmenu & UNWINNABLE (and others) | (Freelance) Gaming Journalist & Writer | Graduate of Biological Sciences at Exeter
https://linktr.ee/the_tenth_letter
But Why Tho? @butwhytho.net Butwhytho.net is an independent media outlet covering video games, film, TV, anime, and comics.
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🎮 Game reviews on Metacritic, Open Critic, and CriticDB
Email us: info@butwhytho.net
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE
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🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave
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