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IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
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Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego, Bioinformatician by training, SD-raised. https://niema.net
Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
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/
M.A. in United States political history. Another end of the world is possible. Admin, Unnamed Leftist Gaming Discord https://discord.gg/sK7BNjXfXv.
Creators of the #WW1 historical shooters Verdun, Tannenberg & Isonzo. Gallipoli is releasing in 2026!
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Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
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Author of The Digital Antiquarian and The Analog Antiquarian. I mainly use this account to announce new articles and other things of note, but you're always welcome to give feedback, ask questions, or just say hello. Thanks for your interest!
Gamester and writer. Former Edge editor, now working at Mojang on storytelling for Minecraft. https://rotational.co.uk
EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander (usually) in Texas. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & communal resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
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Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
M.A. in Literature | Blogger on "Video Games as Literature" and "My Forest Library" | I am ♿🏳️🌈. She/Her.
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Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
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Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
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).
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Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist, Exploits books editor. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
The podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, by Karina Longworth. http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/
Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan.
Games and History, History and Games, History Games, Games History, Games for Change, Games with Purpose, (ex) Games Industry, Game Design, Game Production, Game Quality.
He/Him | Disabled archaeologist and curator specialising in the study of disability in antiquity. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine 🍉
editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
"Loquacious history bastard." PhD in military history, adjunct professor of history, librarian, archivist. Focus on atrocities in Vietnam, Cold War culture, & religion.
The opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of my employer.
Not that one. Not that one, either. Writer and English professor at Howard University in Washington DC. Author of Breaking the Frames (2018) and Grant Morrison (2012).
Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. They/she. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
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Worldbuilder, editor, and narrative designer for games. Principal Narrative Designer for Riot's Riftbound TCG. Formerly worked on Magic, Lorcana, Concord, Gods Unchained. I killed Lorthos and I'd do it again. He/him
American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Pop culture, true crime, monsters, music, creative work. Writing a cultural history of the doppelgänger. Also a runner who blogs about fatherhood. https://www.everydayfictions.com/bio
Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Visualization researcher in SF Bay, building intelligent interfaces for critical technical practitioners. On the job market.
PhD Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz. https://jazztap.github.io/
RECKONING with Jason Herbert
A long-form podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.
New episodes available now.
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Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Bay Area. Preorder MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 now!
日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area.
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Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
-Historian, American West, Borderlands, Environment, Indigenous Peoples
-Professor @ BYU & Assoc. Director @byureddcenter.bsky.social
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-Editor IntermountainHistories.org
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acquisitions editor history (@dg_history) // 19th&20th century social; cultural; global // red wine advocate // opinions are my own // she/her
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
Author of VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR
Senior Apps and Games Analyst at PCMag
Union guy, Black guy, fake Street Sharks guy
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Historian of U.S. foreign relations and imperialism.
Lecturer in History at De Montfort University.
English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him
Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
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Website: https://douglassmall.com
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.
Historian by day, espionage and video game enthusiast by night. Associate Professor at ONH and USN, specializing in the study of the First World War, with a particular focus on Norway’s role and experiences during the conflict.
Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.
Independent games researcher, Ethan Johnson. Preserving gaming history!
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Blog: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Editor of Gaming Alexandria
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🏰 PhD student @ Uni of Glasgow & Imperial War Museums
🐉 researching patriotic fairy tales (yes that was a thing)
Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Historian at Laurentian University (Canada). Researching early modern crime and urban women's lives, but I can never stay away from questions of popular culture & history. Gamer, fan, fibre artist.
Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Reviews Editor @ American Historical Review. 📚 Coffee-drinker. Cross-stitch enthusiast.
https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/
John Merritt Associate Director for Research Services at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at a small liberal arts college.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
Game designer making mathematics and science interactive. I also do the All the Adventures project where I play and write about every adventure game ever made in chronological order.
http://bluerenga.blog
I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity.
Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie |
👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10.
Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you
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Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in History & War Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social
& Director @uofggameslab.bsky.social. Space, Nuclear, Games, AI, Politics. Helping to make ideas fly like bicycles! Views mine. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/timothypeacock
author of five new york times bestsellers
https://goodmovie.substack.com
Historian of the American Revolution | Bostonian |🎙️ Ben Franklin’s World | 🐾 Mother of schnauzers | I help adults see how early America shapes today.
https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
Science Communicator, Video Game Historian, author of Atari Archive, old school FGCer, occasional Retronaut host, and chicken owner. He/him
Paste Games was Endless Mode
Endless Mode is now The A.V. Club's games section
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reporter
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Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Creator of The Gaming Historian YouTube Channel. Co-host of An Old Timey Podcast. I also enjoy woodworking!
Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
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
Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong National Museum of Play. Video games.
TTRPGs I wrote:
Rapture Protocol for ALIEN RPG - Those Dark Places - Pressure - Fireteam - Deep Space
Also love:
Tolkien - Robin of Sherwood - Fighting Fantasy - Dead Space - Battlestar Galactica - The Expanse - 2000AD - Star Trek - Star Wars - Battletech
Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
“CHARMING, INSIGHTFUL” - THE GUARDIAN.
“A GIFT” - VULTURE.
TIME OUT 50 BEST PODCASTS
One guest. Five video games. A perfect console.
Patreon.com/myperfectconsole
Podcast by @simonparkin.bsky.social
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We’re a website about shooting games, among other things.
Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/bulletpoints
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
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
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!
Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Operations, US Naval War College. Author of THE NUCLEAR CLUB and co-editor of THE REAGAN MOMENT. Views represent neither the US Navy, Department of Defense, nor US government.
Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list 2024. Financial Times “Best Books of 2024.”
Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
