Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
Communication Sciences PhD at @uji.es. I'm interested in #GameStudies: ludonarratives, ludomusicology, childhood and moral dilemmas. https://linktr.ee/albertoporta
Professor, College of Image Arts and Science,
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, JAPAN
Réseau ouvert à tous·tes chercheur·euses, créateur·rices et médiateur·rices culturel·les pour l'étude de l'histoire dans les jeux et des jeux dans l'histoire.
Conférences, ressources biblio et contacts ici : https://histoireludique.fr/
Nous sommes un centre de recherche, de production et de diffusion artistique en contexte numérique situé au Québec. Nous soutenons les artistes de toute discipline, les OBNL et les entreprises d'économie sociale dans leur virage numérique.
Kyoto ✦ games, tourism, memory ✦ en/de
https://kaydenuen.com/
Cultural anthropologist working on Japan and digital games.
http://www.mattiasvanommen.com
Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme.
She/her
Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
@ Intersectional Tech Lab (U. Michigan)
Comms Officer 🎤
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Writing a book on games and exhaustion that's under contract with Duke University Press!
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much.
professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
Média indépendant, environnementaliste, humaniste et décroissant.
Pour nous soutenir : http://mrmondialisation.org/donation/
An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
🔸️Media studies scholar
🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech
🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht
🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖
https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is here!!! 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue
(he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), medical humanities, history/public history, neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
Ugly bag of mostly water. he/him. Aussie in London!
Prof de philo et doctorant sur les rapports entre jeu vidéo et philosophie morale.
Philosophy teacher, PhD student in philosophy and game studies.
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
MA Student in Communication and Culture, York University
Researching character creation and player engagement in digital games
Blog: www.thethirdmedium.com
ONFR suit l’actualité francophone au quotidien. Politique, société, culture. On raconte des histoires qui vont au-delà de la manchette et on vous fait découvrir des artistes et leurs univers.
-» https://onfr.tfo.org/
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@ONFR
Canadian Association of University Teachers // Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
A podcast about old video games. 10 years = retro, we don't make the rules. Support us on Patreon for exclusive episodes, Discord access, and more!
patreon.com/retronauts
Associate Professor, USM. Media History, Game Studies, C19 Literature, Critical Theory
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.
MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
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/
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
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.
Journaliste à TVA Gatineau-Ottawa, Rythme Fm 97,1 et TVA Sports
Vous avez une histoire? Écrivez-moi au philippe.bessette@tvagatineau.ca
Animateur du balado Fanball!
https://open.spotify.com/show/0VwqYrAufWJch45WFGiAGt?si=a34082d5a607464f
Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Groupe de recherche sur le jeu.
Chaque année une thématique de travail ✏️
https://linktr.ee/homoludens.uqam
ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
📚édition livres et imaginaire 📚
Directrice @nuitblanche.magazinelitteraire, éditrice de Multimodalité(s), chercheuse parfois
🎧 Journaliste pour @ledroit.com. Couverture Ville d'Ottawa + enjeux francophones. Chronique hebdo.
📚 Auteur pour les Éditions David. Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2024.
🌍 Né à #Annecy. Joueur de soccer raté. Apprenti marathonien.
#onfr #frcan #polcan
Game creator / PHD student in video game creation
Looking for utopian urban political imaginaries
Strange, new weird, urban cultures, political philosophy
Working on a utopian (C)RPG and new game studio !
He/Any
QC/FR
linktr.ee/AoAb_Hugo
PP : Yann Frey
Artiste, Textile, Costumes, Human
Doctorante au Liège Game Lab (Université de Liège)
Matrimoine vidéoludique
Co-fondateur'ice de l'ASBL Pixielles (streaming sur Twitch)
audhd (iel/ael/elle)
PhD student : game idéation et recherche création de jeux vidéo (he/him)
médiateur culturel, technopédagogue et formateur
LiegeGameLab (Université de Liège, BE)
ExpressiveGamelab (Université de Lorraine, FR)
Doctorante en sociologie, Brest. Travail créatif, industrie du jeu video, organisation du travail, résistances.
AKA Kerry Brunskill. Hi and/or sorry
Enby They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Freelance writer - hire me!
Contributing writer @pcgamer.com
Come smother yourself in enthusiastic gaming goodness: https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/kimimi
Postdoc researcher in Lausanne, Switzerland
Video game history & hobbyists
Doctorant FNRS-FRESH au Liège Game Lab. Je me passionne pour les catégorisations génériques. Nageur d'eau froide le reste du temps
Laboratoire de recherche sur le jeu vidéo - U.R. Traverses - Université de Liège, BE. Le Liège Game Lab, c'est deux livres, cinq cours dispensés et plus d'une vingtaine de chercheur.euse.s. Plus d'infos : www.liegegamelab.uliege.be
Chaire de recherche en design de jeu (Concordia)
Créateur-Chercheur-Glandeur
jonathanlessard.net
lablablab.net
www.game-design.ca
Professeur à univ-lorraine / Game Designer indé / Responsable Expressive Gamelab http://www.expressivegame.com / Chaine youtube Théories des jeux vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/@SebastienGenvo / #sciencesdujeu / #gamestudies
official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Post-doc at the University of Waterloo. Game history and labour scholar.
🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking.
🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games.
🕹️Game industry research on unions, worker co-ops, incubators, and more.
Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Prof adjoint Études des cultures numériques, Université de l'Ontario français
Nos nouvelles et contenus les plus populaires pour ne rien manquer de l'actualité.
🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info
Reviews on everything handheld, with a mix of posts on product development.
Co-Founder of R².
Co-host of Retronauts and Talking Simpsons, acclaimed author of Skeleton Car Wash
Retronauts Co-Host, NES Works Producer, Limited Run Book Guy, and RGB addict. Did not invent the word "Metroidvania." He/him. Header pic by Sonya Yruel.
Dad, islander, writer, & Hugo winner. Words for WIRED, Rascal, Vulture, & more. Commodore 1702 enthusiast. he/him.
Rep'd by Eric Smith.
🎧 Co-host of @funfactorpod.com
📚 FIGHT, MAGIC, ITEMS and SUIKODEN 1 & 2
🛰️ Newsletter: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com
Blogging about literary video games since 2012. Aka Ringwraith10 all over. 🏳️🌈♿ (she/her)
@videogamesaslit on most other socials.
www.videogamesaslit.com
📚 DM me to join the Literary Game Club
See also @ringwraith10.bsky.social
Professor and researcher in game studies
School of media, Université du Québec à Montréal
(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
critic / consultant / ??? @ ??? x2 ・ award nominated ・ ハーフ ・ queer, he/him, FTM 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ・ bylines: IGN, Polygon, GamesRadar+, MMORPG, Them, Inverse, Rolling Stone ・ CONTACT: kazuma.h.de@gmail.com ・ posts don't reflect employer, etc. etc.
Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Words at Unwinnable and elsewhere
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
Banner by Lina Wu
Avi by realrollsweat
Game Critic - NPR Contributor
Debug Mag Columnist
Member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle - DiGRA
Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
aguaspoints.com
We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.com
Compte officiel Bluesky des Editions Pix'n Love. Editeur de jeux video et livres 📚🎮 International account : @pixnlove.bsky.social
sociology, science & technology studies.
queer/feminist sts, sexuality & gender studies, @temple univ, cat steward, music 🎶 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎢 tomwaidzunas.net
Out Doing Science by Tom Waidzunas, Ethan Czuy Levine and Brandon Fairchild https://www.umasspress.com
I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
Franco-Ontarien (du Nord), Acadien, Papa.
Professeur Agrégé de Psychologie et Gérontologie au Cap-Breton.
Directrice de la galerie Gamma 🎨
Assistante éditoriale & autrice de artbooks chez Pix'n Love ✒️
Je parle concept art et direction artistique de jeu vidéo.
www.galeriegamma.com
📚 Mon nouveau livre "The Art of Clair Obscur Expedition 33" est disponible!
Asst Prof of Japanese. SF, discourse, and subjectivity. Nerd for games of all stripes. He/him/あいつ. Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch. I was there when they were written. 🚫AI 日本SF、言説、主体性を研究している教師。TTRPG、ボードゲーム好き。投稿はほぼ英語で。
34 (He/Him) Twitch Affiliate. Host of VF Takeover. Avid SEGA fan. Fighting Game Researcher. VF Player/TO. Business Email: virtuakazama@gmail.com
🎮 https://twitch.tv/virtuakazama
🎮 https://youtube.com/@VirtuaKazamaMain
#VirtuaFighter #FGC #PlayMoreVF
PhD student at Yale University. Studying Japanese video games in the EALL department. イェール大学博士課程、デジタルゲーム研究。🏳️🌈 lillianmcintyre.com
Japanese media, especially video games
The Monsters of Everyday Life!
Forthcoming book on Japanese monsters and regional identities.
Eldritch Islands: Essays on Lovecraftian writers of Japanese Horror coming in 2025! (McFarland)
Historian of Japanese Monsters, Yokai, and the Supernatural
Enseignant-chercheur,
Maître de conférences @Cergy Paris université.
Responsable du podcast Le Japon en perspective
💐 Fleur de nymphéa au cœur écarlate
📚 Cultural anthropology, environment, comp lit, lesbian, East-Asia, game studies • EN/FR/日本語
✒ EN-FR, JP-EN/FR translator
🌉 隅田川や市内の水路の文化表象
🦊 VTuber account: @mitsuharamiyabi.bsky.social
They/Them/She/Her
Overwatch , JRPGS & whatever games I might be playing.
🖥️ AMD RX 9070XT ⚡ Ryzen 7600x 🧠 32GB DDR5
🏳️⚧️ respect others, and let people be.
Sharing kindness and seeking it as well.
I’m the gothic neko fragging your team.
she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Women's and Gender Studies at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal⚖️/pornography🌽/games🎮 studies scholar working on sex in video games ✨ Current work: The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com
🏴☠️ designer transdisciplinaire
✍🏻 professeure et chercheuse - école de design, université du québec à montréal
J'explore le design comme un outil pour répondre aux défis de notre époque en tissant des liens entre la technologie et le vivant.
Doctorante en communication | Professeure associée à l'École des médias #UQAM
✨ Analyse et exploration des médias socionumériques
📱 Recherche doctorale sur le modèle de TikTok
🌐 linktr.ee/laurencegrr
Chercheuse en histoire culturelle
ATER en infocom
Facilitatrice PEPR-ICCARE CNRS
Approches critiques du jeu vidéo : sexualités, discours, conditions de production
(pas spécialiste de *la femme* ni de Lara)
Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
