How do I be my girlfriend's cheerleader, not her coach?
What if you shifted your mindset toward joy around watching her learn, rather than watching her win?
Authors
Managing editor Zoë Hannah has a decade of experience writing, reporting, and editing. She's previously served as games editor at Vox Media's Polygon.com and deputy editor of reviews at Hearst Magazines.
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Editor-in-Chief Maddy Myers is a longtime games journalist, critic, and editor who has worked at The Boston Phoenix, The Mary Sue, Kotaku, and Polygon. Currently, she co-hosts the video game podcast Triple Click with Jason Schreier and Kirk Hamilton.
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Nicole Carpenter is a reporter covering the business and culture of games.
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Beatrix Kondo is the final boss in a long quest dismantling gender issues in pop culture. She writes about K-dramas, anime, and East Asian media, specializing in ruining happy endings by pointing out red flags.
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Ashley Schofield is a freelance critic, essayist and journalist, as well as the author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works for Lost In Cult.
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Madisyn Parisi is a queer tech journalist who writes about media and power. They love rogue-likes, Vampire: The Masquerade, and complex female characters.
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Cass Marshall has been writing about the weird worlds players create in video games for over a decade. They are based out of Toronto, Canada with their husband and two rescue cats.
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Ana Hein is an essayist and critic. Her work has been featured in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, AFM, Digging Press Journal, Compulsive Reader, Videodame, and more. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University.
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Chris Plante is the host of Post Games. Imagine if NPR cared about games, and you get the gist. He previously co-founded Polygon. He currently hosts The Besties, one of the longest-running and most beloved gaming review podcasts.
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Amanda Tien is a writer, nonprofit marketing strategist, and visual artist. She also edits and podcasts about video games at PunishedBacklog.com.
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Nico Deyo is a feminist media critic who lives in the Midwest with her cat and has written for a variety of publications including Vice Games, Paste, Kotaku and Polygon. Her writing focuses heavily on how games view gender and sexuality.
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Nicole Clark is an LA-based writer and editor who covers TV, games, health, and tech. She used to run Polygon’s culture section and you can find her work in the NY Times, Aftermath, and elsewhere. She still owns a Gamecube just for Kirby Air Ride.
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Susana Polo is an editor and writer with over 15 years of expertise in covering pop culture fan communities. She founded the decade's premier feminist nerd blog, The Mary Sue.com, in 2011, and was a senior editor at Polygon for over a decade.
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Saoirse Stone is a teacher, coach, activist, witch, and game master par excellence. She writes on gaming, comics, politics, and queer culture. Feel free to ask her about fighting games, constitutional law, RPGs, and which X-Men are and should be gay.
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Wes is a freelance writer published at IGN, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, and most recently, The Verge. Inside him are two wolves: one that's considering collecting game consoles again, and the other who also thinks this, but more strongly.
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Ellie Black is a cartoonist who lives in Brooklyn. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Nashville Review, and more.
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Formerly Boston, now Oslo as of 2023. Librarian at heart and by training. Avid knitter and crocheter. Parent to one child. Happily partnered. Bein' weird for over 40 years 🥳
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Madeline Blondeau is an author and essayist based in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing has appeared at The AV Club, Paste, Anime Herald, and Anime Feminist, among others. Her novel, Penitents, is due out August 2026 from Ghoulish Books.
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Kastel is a subculture media blogger and visual novel developer. Their writings have appeared on The Imaginary Engine Review, The Rosebush, and Critical Distance's This Year in Video Game Blogging.
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A writer, editor and journalist from Singapore, Khee Hoon has written about video games, entertainment and culture for places like The Verge, Polygon, Vice, Dicebreaker and Edge.
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Amanda’s been writing about and for video games since 2006; when they’re not doing that (or playing rhythm games), they’re probably following their favorite band (Rainbow Kitten Surprise) around on tour.
View articlesBeemia Ehitare is a Nigerian writer and researcher whose work explores culture, technology, and social issues. He is particularly interested in how language, identity, and digital spaces shape everyday experiences.
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Kevin Cortez is a DC-based culture and product journalist, and current Shopping reporter at HuffPost. Zoë used to be his boss. In his spare time, he reads graphic novels, plays pinball, drinks coffee, and listens to his therapist.
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Harper is a freelance writer who previously worked at Kotaku as senior critic, and whose work has been featured on Giant Bomb, EuroGamer, Paste Magazine, and Polygon. Most recently she was content and community manager at Double Fine Productions.
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Natalie Checo is a writer, social media manager, and community manager at Sunset Visitor who also does community work at Black Tabby Games. She has written for Fanbyte, Paste Magazine, IGN, Polygon, and more.
View articlesJoseph Wales is a content strategist and writer with a background in storytelling and a lifelong fascination with gaming, world-building, and the places where narrative and community meet.
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Wallace Truesdale II is a critic and journalist with a love for games, a weakness against soft cookies, and a few bylines at outlets including AV Club Games, Unwinnable, Stop Caring, and more.
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Isaiah Colbert's byline has appeared on Kotaku, Gamespot, IGN, Inverse, Anime News Network, Polygon, GamesRadar+, and Rolling Stone. As the "Otaku without Borders," they currently write correct takes about all things anime at Aftermath and Gizmodo.
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Aashima Rawal is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Business Insider, Scary Mommy, NPQ, FUTBOLISTA Magazine, and Betches. She writes about culture, embodiment, and digital life.
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Katya is a games journalist writing at the intersection of gaming, motherhood, and gender. She reports on all things Canadian video games and enjoys playing indies and cozy sims. She lives in Toronto with her husband and toddler.
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Ana Diaz is a freelance culture writer who covers the intersections between internet culture, fandom, and video games. Her work has been published at NPR, Wired, The Verge, and websites.
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William Antonelli is a tech reporter and organizer based in New York City. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Polygon, Business Insider, Kotaku, and more.
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