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It's a long read so check the article. I'll just post the first part and the list.
Check out the link.
It's a long read so check the article. I'll just post the first part and the list.
In 2014, we published a list of video game people to follow on Twitter. Im not sure Id give the same advice today.
Twitter is a very different place than it used to be in 2014, when our list of which video game people to follow was originally published. Sometimes its a laugh riot of interesting jokes and affection. Other days just opening the app feels like torture. I remember joining the platform in early 2013, and it felt like an experimental, free form space where you could throw thoughts out into the void without a care in the world. Now those thoughts are dredged up when you say something problematic and some stranger wants something to email to your boss.
But its not like Twitters dead. Its still a good place to keep up with the news, to get some scoops, or just take the temperature about how the community feels about something. On the best days, its still an awesome place to make friends. Thats why people are still on it, and maybe thats why you want to use Twitter too.
Like all social media platforms, Twitter had a shelf life before it started to get weird and bad. Ive been through the gamut. I remember LiveJournal with a perhaps undue fondness, but, while I was in high school, the company was bought and they shut down a lot of fanfiction communities. My friends and I scattered when they started placing ads on our blogs. Tumblr was fun, once, if you can believe it. In 2014, it seemed like every day on Twitter youd meet a new friend. Now, youre more likely to make a lifelong enemy entirely by accident.
In 2017, then, you need less of a list of people to follow, and more of guideline for how to keep your head above water.
As far as our actual list, In 2014 we recommended some genuinely cool and interesting people to follow like artist Olly Moss or our newly hired Features Editor Chris Kohler. But now, some of these picks are duds. Vince Zampella, CEO of Respawn, was on our old list. He hasnt tweeted since May 13th and mostly it was pictures of the Santa Monica pier. There are a few other people on the list who are still active professionals in games but just dont tweet about games as often as they used to. They shouldnt have to, of course. But that makes them a poor suggestion three years later.
If you peruse the old list, some of those people are still worth a follow, as far as Im concerned. I still do follow Hideo Kojima, but mostly for his fanboying over Mad Mikkelsen. And you know, I still recommend you follow Chris Kohler. Hes alright. Its not a bad basic reference pointits just that Twitter has changed, and Id be remiss if I encouraged someone to be more active on the platform without explaining to them what theyre gonna get.
In 2013, Twitter still had some semblance of being about people and everyday life. You could tweet about your lunch and others would be genuinely interested in whatever you had for lunch! Now, its more about lesprit de lescalier. Its a collection of witty retorts or real cool insults people workshop while on the toilet. If youre tweeting a pic of your lunch it better come with a post-modern joke about the nature of lunch and man. For better or worse, Twitter is impersonal now. In 2017, its less about who you follow than how you use Twitter.
With all that in mind, heres a few of my suggestions:
Artists
Cool Box Art | Posts cool box art, with an emphasis on vintage covers and international variants.
Mushbuh | Artist for upcoming game Burrito Galaxy, maker of neat hats.
Corey Schmitz | Graphic Designer responsible for that really cool Rez Infinite box art, among other things.
Paper Beats Scissors | Will bless your timeline with cartoons of cats.
Olly Moss | A cool dude who makes good art and frequently tweets it.
Alex Norris | That guy who makes comics where the punchline is always oh no.
Cara McGee | Sells really cute stickers of Dragon Age characters and mugs with sharks on them.
Eliza Gauger | Makes pagan glyphs to help solve your problems.
Funny People
Point and Clickbait | The Onion, but for video games.
Austin Creed | Professional Wrestler, games YouTuber, all around good dude.
Pippin Barr | An inciteful indie dev you should follow for his funny Game Idea tweets.
Leon | One of your favorite video game memes probably originated from here.
SungWon Cho | You may remember him as the only good video game Viner. His Twitter is also good.
Melville House | Cool tweets about neat books.
Andrew W.K. | Tweets party tips for loving yourself.
Dril | A joke account that also inadvertently catalogues of every way to be mad online.
Mitski | A very good singer songwriter with some great tweets.
Chrissy Teigen | Model, side eye-er, newly a Kotaku reader.
Anjali Bihmani | Symmetras voice actress really loves being Symmetras voice actress.
Bots
Shiba Pic | A bot that tweets pictures of Shiba Inus.
Gradients | A bot that tweets randomly generated gradients.
Tiny Foods | Pictures of tiny foods.
Pleasant Subtweets | A bot that tweets vague, but kind things.
Metal Band.exe | Autogenerated Metal band names and logos.
If You Really Want To Get Gaming News From Twitter, Here Ya Go
John Ricciardi | Co-founder of 8-4, lots of great Tweets about Japanese games.
Daniel Ahmad | Good source for news on the Chinese games market.
Phil Spencer | Xbox big shot who spills some good stuff from time to time.
Steam Spy | All the data visualization about Steam you could ever want.
Nibellion | Always on top of the latest gaming news, usually delivering sharp jokes to boot.
NeoGaf New Thread | A bot that automatically links to every new thread on video game forum NeoGaf.
Wario64 | One of the best guys to follow for quick heads-ups on video game deals, also shares plenty of other interesting stuff.
Liz England | Game designer at Ubisoft Toronto that makes cool interactive fiction games on the side.
Naomi Clark | Professor at the NYU Game Center. Also into comics.
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