@mothership.blog co-founder and managing editor ✨
formerly games editor at polygon, deputy editor at hearst mags, and a buncha other stuff. DM or reply for email!
One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com
Curator of Television for the BFI National Archive.
I knit and watch TV. Knitstagram: @goggleknits
A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’, available weekly via Backlisted patreon.com/backlisted. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
Jake Thackray biographer. Performs with his guitar.
Produced Jake Thackray Project’s Lost Archives 1966-1996 CD: https://youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?si=A8OYMs5KYBrKE8di
Latest book: Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer
Writes songs.
www.paulthompsonmusic.co.uk
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.
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.
Independent Game Developer – Made One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE | IGF | Indie Cup | Previous EA Chillingo | Brit residing in Germany | Invisibly disabled | She/They 🖤🩶🤍💜
www.kinmoku.games
Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society President. BFI Film Classics Book on A Hard Day's Night out Apr 2: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
I write about cars, movies, & cars in movies.
words for Hagerty, Arrow Video, Empire Magazine, Polygon, Autoweek, Southwest Review, Bright Wall/Dark Room, etc.
https://linktr.ee/scillapage
🍒 screenwriter and culture writer
🍊 author of BONG JOON HO: DISSIDENT CINEMA
🍋 reps: lit entertainment/uta
🍐 krnyhan@gmail.com
🫐 https://www.karenhan.org
Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
• Independent game studio, creating worlds of mystery and mischief
• Read Eteo Archetypes: https://www.eteogames.com/
2 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy.
ULTIMATE X-MEN, CONAN, MtG, ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI
www.zackdavisson.com
Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Film critic, podcaster @FatalAttractPod.bsky.social, compiler/co-author of What To Watch When, creator of #PreCodeApril. Hasn't missed an episode of EastEnders since 1998.
Sometimes drawer of the silly pictures. Ex of Rare and various other game devs. Helped make the UK's first anime magazine and games mags like Super Play and N64 in ye olden days. Now getting old and crumbly.
https://linktr.ee/wiloverton
Editor and co-founder of Senet magazine. Contributing editor to Empire magazine. Author of the Unofficial Guides to James Cameron, the Coen brothers, Christopher Nolan & Quentin Tarantino. Player of (board) games.
Game Director @ the BAFTA-Nominated Bytten Studio ► We made CASSETTE BEASTS ► Game Design/Narrative Design/Art Stuff/Animation ► Brighton, UK
"I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
A blog about old games. Written by Ashley Day
gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com
Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 19 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally
She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Anime Fan, Owner of a pretty big Sakura Wars collection, and EIC at Anime Herald and The Combat Revue Review.
Opinions are my own.
Movies and mushrooms. Writer, film critic, Japanese film lover, amateur mycologist, co-director of CREEPING GARDEN and J-HORROR VIRUS and author of a few books. https://jaspersharp.squarespace.com
I live in Tacoma and I write about movies.
thechinesecinema.com
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
We are the library service for Wakefield and its surrounding towns and villages.
Follow us for news, reviews & events, plus oodles of free online resources, learning courses & historical photographs!
🔗 https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/libraries
Writer, speaker, poet, scholar, booklover. Over a dozen books, two more in 2026; hundreds of presentations/articles on anime, manga, cosplay, history, art and craft across the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. You can contact me via my website helenmccarthy.net
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Assistant Professor in Film & TV Studies @ Warwick Uni / Forthcoming: The Dancing Girl in Contemporary Cinema 💃 (EUP, 2026) / Programming: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/trailblazers / Editor: Open Screens
🌳 Rambling through Epping Forest 🌳
Former Editorial Director @eurogamer @vg247, USGamer managing editor, @vg247 Editor-in-chief, founder of VideoGamer.com. GOAT (He/him) tom dot orry at gmail dot com
Book designer. York, UK.
danielgray.com
Writer, Curator, Cultural Omnivore | 1/3 of http://reframenewsletter.online/ | Author of Amnesia: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk // I mostly retweet games + art. Opinions are my own. He/Him | PFP: Kara Xu (Helium Raven) Header: Death Stranding 2
Culture on computers, mostly | ✍ The Verge, FT, The Ringer, The Nation, ArtReview, The Guardian, Vulture | ✉️ lewisjohngordon~at~gmail~dot~com | he/him
Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Political scientist by day, sci-fi nerd by night. @umich.edu PhD. Teach at @gwu1821.bsky.social. Edited books about #Dune, #StarWars, & #StudioGhibli. Also write about politics in #BladeRunner, #LOTR, & #StarTrek. More @ domnardireviews.wordpress.com
Digital Production at BFI. Just as likely to post about other stuff. Film, architecture, art, design etc.
Digital and tech exec at the BFI. Previously GOV.UK, and a tough but edifying stint in local gov. Alcohol free. Fun facts: I can't form mental images and have no inner monologue (aphantasia) nor remember my own life (SDAM). https://neilojwilliams.net
i write about horror, film and tv: Bloody Disgusting, Arrow, Terror Vision, Second Sight · 🍅 approved · talesfromthepaulside.com · 🌈 · GALECA member
Bristol based. Love films and my two doofus rescue cats. Occasional automaticket operator at the Cube.
Movie goer, mask wearer, toon drawer, weight gainer, train hater, self humiliator | >1.1K active followers | mods @retiredmascots.bsky.social and the Hall of Advertising | 32 | AuDHD | bi aro | 🔞 | he/they | NoAI | https://maxthemovieguy.carrd.co
Author
Sunday Times Children's Books
#NewIllustrationoftheDay
Blog, biog, gallery, books: on www.nicolettejones.com
Events: phil@showmetherabbit.com.
RLF Bridge Yr 11/12 writing wkshops: bridge@rlf.org.uk
Art by John Jones: www.johnedwardjones.co.uk
UK based comic artist.
📸 http://instagram.com/marcellerby
🎨 http://patreon.com/marcellerby
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💻 http://marcellerby.com/comicportfolio
✉️ marc@marcellerby.com
Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Film programmer + write about film - Bristol Black Horror Club UK - All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
your horror nonna
post-goth/recovering academic/dr/writer/
critic/author of 10 books on cult/horror film
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://linktr.ee/suspirialex
“Film score expert” - Variety. Lover of robots. 🏳️⚧️-friendly. They/them. Over 40. Reylo. Live in Wales 🏴. I sometimes purge all my posts. Writing account - @charliebrigden.bsky.social
Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
EN/ES/日本語OK・Translator, anime and manga researcher. Writting books with Diábolo Ediciones and mystery games on @1564studio.bsky.social. (Main account: @ounomachi.bsky.social | Profile pic by Keiichi Tanaka).
Film programmer 📽️
Ken Russell and goth shit 🦇
she/her
📍Hastings, UK
https://boxd.it/1qR3z
https://www.instagram.com/movieposterparty
Bringing forgotten, lost, or unavailable films back to UK cinemas, mostly in 35mm and 16mm. Founded and operated by Geoffrey M. Badger. Also found at lostreels.co.uk and on other social media sites at @lostreelsuk
Analog illustrator, vintage collector, dark horse. Wife guy.
http://www.brianna-ashby.com/
https://ko-fi.com/briannaashby
● Journaliste à @lemonde.fr | Service Culture
✒️ Manga, animation et pop cultures
● Autrice de «Naruto, les arcanes de Konoha» (Pix’n Love, 2024)
● Commissaire de l'expo «L'Atelier des Sorciers, la plume enchantée de K. Shirahama» | FIBD25
Promoting and facilitating academic approaches to Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga).
News, announcements, links, commentary, questions, thoughts.
www.animemangastudies.com
- featuring the Anime and Manga Studies Database
Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander
✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
The official account of MZS.press, online store and publishing imprint. Created by author, critic, journalist and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz. Business and account are run by Judith Carter. We're biblio-cinephiles who love the arts and support artists.
Professional haver of takes
Gaming Director @ DDA PR 🎮
Ex Media Molecule, Bandai Namco, Creative Assembly, Warner Bros.
SCP 100 | MCV 30u30 | GIBiz 100 |
Travel, Disney, F1 and LFC fangirl ♥️✨
Filmmaker | Animator | Writer | Artist | MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE | ROCKS IN MY POCKETS | KARMIC KNOT
MyLoveAffairWithMarriage.com
KarmicKnotMovie.com
✍️the skinny, creative review, snack mag, the crack & more | gsff 🎬 | writing about print and visual culture on substack (3mm bleed)
Head of Content, The Ringer • Host, The Big Picture • Subscribe: http://spoti.fi/2Iwuk26 • See you at the movies
Your friendly local video store. We have over 20,000 films and 2 small cinemas. Find us on Christmas Steps, Bristol!
www.20thcenturyflicks.co.uk
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
Curator supakino.com / Founder @the-cloud-door.bsky.social / Former Chair riocinema.org.uk
🧑💻 freelance culture writer, copy editor
💼 https://autumn-wright.com
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✉️ autumnwright at protonmail.com
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Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
https://vimeo.com/user11355665
“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
Founded and run by Chris Holden, distributing classic and cult films in premium collectors editions and celebrating our 30th anniversary.
senior managing editor at MUBI | writing for Sight & Sound, ArtReview, MUBI Notebook | website: https://sophiasatchellbaeza.co.uk | let's see how long I last on here
Northern dude 🤙🏻 Cinema Manager & Programme Lead at CULTPLEX Cinema in Manchester 🎞️
Deaf Crocodile is a boutique Distribution + Restoration + Post-Production company focused on new, independent, lost/unseen and world cinema.
sea swimmer | film curator & talent coordinator for festivals and events | Londoner in Toronto ✨
Deputy Online Editor at Empire Magazine. One half of the Disniversity Podcast. Clean and rad and powerful.
Senior Project & Biz Dev Manager @lostincult.co.uk | Author of Sable: Design Works & Citizen Sleeper: Design Works 📖 | Buy "Heterotopias" & "How A Game Lives" 📕 | Old bylines @ Eurogamer, RPS, Polygon, The Verge, WIRED, The Face, NME, Edge, GamesRadar etc.
Technology, media, communications. Ex-journalist. Opinions are mine and not representative of my employer. He/him.
Bike 🏍️ Dango 🍡 Game 🕹️ Climb 🧗♂️
日本語が下手🙂↕️
I’m from Scotland, live in Scotland, and write and design the stories for videogames. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio is here: https://linktr.ee/caraellison
Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
Makes nice things on YouTube.com/johnnychiodini Runs D&D for Oxventure. Likes Blood Bowl. They/them
Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
⚡ PR and assorted creative stuff for Devolver Digital
⚡ Writer, photographer, graphic designer, zine maker, etc.
⚡ Author of Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion
⚡ Glaswegian
📍 Yorkshire, UK
🔗 https://linktr.ee/ultrabrilliant
Editor @onemorecatch.site, freelancer for hire. Previously Polygon, Eurogamer, Digital Spy. BAFTA member. Mostly RTs, retro games and Pokémon Go. He / him. Late for everything
UX writer. Former games journalist. Views are my own. DFTBA.
https://www.instagram.com/karthupial
A video games podcast by @mrbasil_pesto and
@samuelwroberts. New episode every Friday.
Patreon.com/backpagepod if you'd like to support us. Email: backpagegames@gmail.com, Discord: http://discord.gg/nEdhNnZxXg.
News Editor for Empire Magazine
Great films back on the big screen… 📽️ #CineRedis25 touring across the UK & Ireland brought to you by @wshed.bsky.social & friends since 2016
https://linktr.ee/cineredis
Tokyo based localizer and author of Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide. Certified kimono fitter. 着物着付け師範 https://linktr.ee/hirokoyoda
Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
https://www.mattalt.com/
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/
https://linktr.ee/mattalt
• émigré • film poster graphic designer there & there • theatre and film photographer every now & then • somehow holds MA FSM with Film Programming & Curating • yapper about accented cinema •
www.ewaferdynus.com
& @byewfer & @ewaferdynusphoto on insta
I write and talk about film, TV, music, podcasts, books etc LWLies, The List, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Scotland, S&S, BFI. Features Editor for SciFiNow
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1vkz
Football fan ⚽️
Right let’s give this place a go. Film Tennis Politics.
Magic Hours
Visible Darkness
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World/Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery - a Novel
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