Following the recent acquisition of 1 Up by UGO, the potential power of Twitter has been witnessed in true positive effect by all those following the accounts of some of the now ex 1 Up people. Instant communication and updates has provided a technological word of mouth, a means of two way communication, keeping all those interested up to date and in the loop in what those guys would be up to next.
Within days of departure, the first Rebel FM podcast was out, and other projects such as Geekbox Radio have since hit the net - all with a waiting and established fan-base who knew where and when this new media would be available. This sense of established community could of possibly have been lost without Twitter – and of course the dedication of the ex 1up’rs in providing these updates.
Although Twitter is without doubt a powerful tool, it can sometimes be a little difficult to find the new people and content you want to read and follow. After reading this post on video games companies on Twitter by Sam Housten, I thought I would take a look for myself to find what other gaming related people, sites, podcasts, developers and publishers were also out there establishing communities and communicating to the masses via Twitter. Here’s what Ive found so far:
Sources: Twitter – Sam “QforQ” Houston’s blog post – Kotaku - NeoGaf – Google – Wikipedia
Publishers/Developments Studios and their Employees
2k Boston – Shawn Elliott – Personal twitter – http://twitter.com/ShawnElliott - Ex 1 up, now Producer at 2K Boston. Very funny stuff, some NSFW!
Activision – http://twitter.com/activision (unconfirmed, no tweets yet)
Adultswim games – http://twitter.com/adultswimgames
ArenaNet – http://twitter.com/arenanet – Official Twitter for ArenaNet, the award-winning game developers of Guild Wars.
Big Fish Games – http://twitter.com/bigfishgames – Big Fish Games
Bungie – http://twitter.com/voMethod – Seth Gibson – Technical Director@Bungie
Codemasters – http://twitter.com/codemasters (unconfirmed, no posted tweets as of yet)
EA – http://twitter.com/ea
EA – http://twitter.com/easportsworld – easportsworld – EA SPORTS community, news
EA – http://twitter.com/riley_easports – jen riley – EA SPORTS PR Manager
EA – http://twitter.com/eamobile – Craig – Community Manager for Electronic Arts Mobile
EA – http://twitter.com/sk88z – Alain Quinto – EA SPORTS Community Manager
EA – http://twitter.com/EARom – Romily Broad – Community Manager for EA SPORTS Football World
EA – http://twitter.com/raczilla – Will Kinsler – EA SPORTS Community Manager
EA – http://twitter.com/Dewiel – Justin Dewiel – EA SPORTS Community Manager
EA – http://twitter.com/EASPORTSduke – Duke Indrasigamany
EA – http://twitter.com/matthewpruitt – Matthew Pruitt – Community Manager for Electronic Arts
EA – http://twitter.com/hippyjump – Ron Yatco – Community Manager, EA – http://skate.ea.com
EA – http://twitter.com/crackedactor – Jaap Tuinman – Online community/social/marketing guy @ EA
EA – http://twitter.com/pbrush – Doug Brooks – Technical Art Director at EA
EA – http://twitter.com/eaonline_brettb - eaonline_brettb – Online Content Manager (Madden, Tiger, NCAA)
EA – http://twitter.com/EA_Community – EA_Community
EA – http://twitter.com/loki_diego – Thomas Holt – Senior Art Lead with EA’s Dead Space franchise
EA Redwood Shores – http://twitter.com/blizzzz – Dave Blizard – Lighting Director and CG Supervision at EA Redwood Shores
EA Rupture – http://twitter.com/sargonas – J Eckert – Ops Manager for EA Rupture
EA Rupture – http://twitter.com/rupture – All Games, All Platforms. Connect, Share, Achieve.
EA Tiburon – http://twitter.com/ian_cummings – Ian Cummings – Sr. Designer @ Tiburon on Madden NFL
Eat Sleep Play – David Jaffe – http://twitter.com/djaffe
Eidos – http://twitter.com/Eidos (unconfirmed, no posted tweets as of yet)
David Perry – http://twitter.com/dperry – Video Game Industry Veteran
gambrinous – http://twitter.com/gambrinous – Indie game developer. 1st game coming soon.
GarageGames – http://twitter.com/garagegames -indie game developer and publisher, creator of InstantAction.com
Gearbox Software – http://twitter.com/GearboxSoftware – Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Harmonix – http://twitter.com/HMXCasey – HMXCasey – Harmonix Designer Of Rocking
Harmonix – http://twitter.com/HarmonixSean – HarmonixSean – Manager of community for Harmonix, the makers of Rock Band
Harmonix – http://twitter.com/mattboch – m@ – Creative Designer (Hardware) at Harmonix.
Harmonix – http://twitter.com/jungandinsane – Heather Wilson – Audio Producer at Harmonix
Harmonix – http://twitter.com/deliciousbees – DanT – Senior designer at Harmonix
Harmonix – http://twitter.com/Slapworth – Chris Foster – Driving the Design Schoolbus @ HMX
Harmonix – http://twitter.com/jchausse – Jeff Chausse – Web boss at Harmonix
Incognito Entertainment – http://twitter.com/DylanJobe – Dylan Jobe – Studio Director of Incognito Entertainment developing PlayStation 3 games
Infinity Ward – Official twitter – http://twitter.com/Infinity_Ward - developers of the Call of Duty series (CoD, CoD2, CoD4)
Infinity ward – Robert Bowling – http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo – Director of Communications / Community Manager for Infinity Ward
Kaos Studios – http://twitter.com/KaosStudios – frontlines.com
Kaos Studios – http://twitter.com/mjayg – Mitch Gross – Community Manager for Frontlines: War Fuel of from THQ /Kaos Studios.
Klei Entertainment – http://twitter.com/biiigfoot – biiigfoot – runs Klei Entertainment Inc., a video game development studio
Lionhead Studios – http://twitter.com/LionheadStudios – Based in Guildford, UK. Developers of Fable, Fable 2, Black and White and The Movies
Lionhead Studios – http://twitter.com/paulecoyote – Paul Evans – Lionhead
Lionhead Studios – http://twitter.com/rogerisland – Georg Backer – Lionhead
Lucasarts – http://twitter.com/lucasartsgames
Media Molecule - http://twitter.com/mediamolecule – Creators of Little Big Planet, based in Guildford, Uk (unconfirmed, no tweets yet)
MobileAge – http://twitter.com/McCarron – Patrick McCarron – Personal Twitter, Lead iPhone Developer at MobileAge
Mythic Entertainment – http://twitter.com/thatbarnettblok – thatbarnettbloke – Creative director for Warhammer W.A.R
Mythic Entertainment – http://twitter.com/ElvishParsley – Justin Webb – Senior Designer at Mythic Entertainment
Mythic Entertainment – http://twitter.com/S_McNair – S_McNair – Developer for Mythic Entertainment
Mythic Entertainment – http://twitter.com/cgouskos – Carrie Gouskos – Associate Producer at EA Mythic
Naughty Dog – http://twitter.com/Naughty_Dog – Sony owned developer responsible for the Crash Banicoot franchise, JaK & Daxter & Uncharted Drakes fortune
Naughty Dog – http://twitter.com/arne360 – arne – video game marketing/pr stuff at Naughty Dog
ngmoco – http://twitter.com/ngmoco – ngmoco
Popcap Games – http://twitter.com/popcap_games
Sega America – http://twitter.com/SegaAmerica – All the latest info on SEGA games & releases
Serious Business Games – http://twitter.com/Stanrule1 – Andrew Sipotz – Community Manager
Slant Six Games – http://twitter.com/SlantSixGames
SOE – http://twitter.com/Eovania – Vanessa – SOE International Community Relations for EQII, LoN, Vanguard & PS – SOE International Community Relations for EQII, LoN, Vanguard & PS
SOE – http://twitter.com/feconix – feconix – Game designer at SOE
SOE – http://twitter.com/SOEGordo – Gordo – International Community Relations Manager
SOE – http://twitter.com/SOEllyra – Assistant Designer on Free Realms -
SOE – http://twitter.com/Free_Realms – Pex_FreeRealms – Updates and information about the MMO Free Realms
Sierra Entertainment – http://twitter.com/sierragames
Southpeakgames – http://twitter.com/southpeakgames – Publisher of independently developed video games.
Splash Damage – http://twitter.com/splashdamage – UK based developer, behind Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
Stardock – http://twitter.com/stardock
Streaming Colour Studios – http://twitter.com/OwenGoss – Owen Goss – Owen is the founder of Streaming Colour Studios: an independent games company
Telltale Games – http://twitter.com/TelltaleGames – Official twitter
Telltale Games – http://twitter.com/seanovanaman – Sean Vanaman – Writer/Designer at Telltale Games
Three Melons – http://twitter.com/threemelons – Game studio that develops juicy online games
Treyarch – http://twitter.com/JD_2020 – Josh Olin – Treyarch’s Community Manager
Ubisoft – http://twitter.com/ubisoft – Official Ubisoft Twitter.
Valve software – http://twitter.com/ValveSoftware – Creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, and Left 4 Dead
Vogster Entertainment – http://twitter.com/DougWoolsey – DougWoolsey – Senior Designer, Vogster Entertainment
Xbox Live Community Games – http://twitter.com/thebarryman – thebarryman – Developer of Groov, out now on Xbox Live Community Games
Microsoft Xbox, Sony, Nintendo
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/majornelson – Larry Hryb – AKA Major Nelson – Larry is the Director of Programming for Xbox Live, and runs a blog and podcast.
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/XNACommunity – The official twitter of the XNA Community Team
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/Kluch – Michael Klucher – Program Manger – XNA Community Game Platform
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/trixie360 – TriXie – Xbox LIVE Community Manager
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/GamerscoreBlog – Microsoft Xbox Community Team
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/AceyBongos – Graeme – Xbox Community Manager, Europe
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/TylerWelch – Tyler Welch – Community Program Manager at Microsoft
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/zaam – ZaaM IT – Xbox Community Developer – Xbox.com Moderator
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/JakenBear – Jake Reardon – Xbox Online Communications and Content Coordinator at Xbox Canada
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/Stepto – Stephen Toulouse – In charge of Policy and Enforcement for Xbox LIVE
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/CPaladino – Chris Paladino – Xbox Community Manager
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/johnporcaro – John Porcaro – Director Online Community, Xbox/GFW Global Mktg, Microsoft Corp -
Microsoft – http://twitter.com/zaam – ZaaM IT – Xbox Community Developer – Xbox.com Moderator
Nintendo – http://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica – Nintendo America
Nintendo – http://twitter.com/nintendo (unconfirmed, no tweets yet)
Sony – http://twitter.com/SonyPlayStation – Official Twitter account of SCEA
Gaming sites and podcasts
1 Up – http://twitter.com/1upnetwork
1 up – http://twitter.com/GarnettLee – Garnett Lee – Host of 1UP Yours and Executive Editor at 1UP
1 Up – http://twitter.com/retronauts – Retronauts at 1UP
1 Up – http://twitter.com/TheSmokingManX – Chris Pereira – 1UP.com News Reporter / beetstro.com
1 Up – http://twitter.com/ThierryNguyen – Thierry Nguyen
1 Up – http://twitter.com/DavidEllis – David Ellis – AKA, lybertyboy – Producer/writer for the 1UP Network. Contributer for Sports Anomaly & 1UP Yours podcasts.
1 Up – http://twitter.com/teanah – Tina Sanchez – Community Manager of 1UP
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/ShaneWatch – Shane Bettenhausent – Guested on Rebel FM podcast episode 2, now working as Developer Ignition
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/Chufmoney – Anthony Gallegos – Working on Rebel FM podcast
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/aegies – Arthur Gies – Working on Rebel FM podcast
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/nsuttner – Nick Suttner – Working on Rebel FM podcast
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/pkollar – Philip Kollar – Ex-1UP news editor and current freelance game writer/podcaster, working on Rebel FM
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/talkingorange – Matt Chandronait – Ex producer for The 1UP Show – working om Rebel FM, personal site is http://talkingorange.com
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/ryanodonnell – Ryan O’Donnell – Now working on Rebel FM podcast
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/RyanScottRyan – Ryan Scott – Now working on Geekbox Radio
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/andrewpfister – Andrew Pfister – Former 1UP podcast dude
Ex 1 Up – http://twitter.com/milkychan – James Mielke – 1UP Editor
360Voice.com – http://twitter.com/trappermarkelz – Trapper Markelz – Owner/Developer 360voice.com
360Style.net – http://twitter.com/GodfatherX – Aaron Neel – 360style.net Creative Editor
CAGcast – http://twitter.com/CAGcast – The CAGcast Video Game Podcast
CAGcast – http://twitter.com/Wombat5277 – co-host of the CAGcast video game podcast
Co-Optimus – http://twitter.com/cooptimus
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/Dtoid
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/ConradZimmerman – Conrad Zimmerman – Associate Editor: Destructoid.com
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/SamitSarkar – Samit Sarkar – Associate Editor: Destructoid.com
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/dtoidniero - dtoidniero – Founder of Destructoid.com
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/nicholsonb – Brad Nicholson – Associate Editor @ Destructoid.com
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/Jonathan_Ross – Jonathan Ross – Editor for Destructoid
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/DaleNorth – DaleNorth – Destructoid News Editor
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/jim_sterling – Jim Sterling – Destructoid.com’s reviews editor and games media firestarter
Destructoid – http://twitter.com/thePodcastle – thePodcastle podcast
Digg Gaming – http://twitter.com/digg_gaming
EverydayGamers – http://twitter.com/EverydayGamers – The official Twitter of EverydayGamers.com
Gamedaily – http://twitter.com/gamedaily
Gamerbytes – http://twitter.com/gamerbytes
Gamerbytes – http://twitter.com/Rlan2 – Rlan2 -Editor of gamerbytes
Gamespot – http://twitter.com/gamespot
Gamespot – http://twitter.com/Batgirl – Kristin Reilly – Producer for GameSpot
Gamespot UK – http://twitter.com/gamespotuk
Gamespot UK – http://twitter.com/guycocker – Guy Cocker
gamersdailynews.com – http://twitter.com/gamersdailynews
GamesRadar – http://twitter.com/GamesRadar
GamertagRadio – http://twitter.com/gamertagradio – Official Twitter
GamertagRadio – http://twitter.com/godfree – Danny Pena – Gamertag Radio Co-founder & Host
GamertagRadio – http://twitter.com/Paustinj – Patrick Joyner – Co-Host and Review Editor at GamertagRadio.com
GamesPolitics.com – http://twitter.com/GamePolitics
GamesRadar – http://twitter.com/GamesRadar
Gametrailers.com – http://twitter.com/GameTrailers
GiantBomb.com – http://twitter.com/giantbomb
GiantBomb.com – http://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann – Jeff Gerstmann – Ex Gamespot, now working on Giantbomb – Excellent podcast.
Idle Thumbs – http://twitter.com/IdleThumbs – Chris Remo – I write and cast pods about video games
Joypod – http://twitter.com/joypod – UK based gaming podcast, highly recommended!
Joypod – http://twitter.com/davidturners – AKA – Elmo, Co-host of the amazing Joypod podcast
Joystiq – http://twitter.com/joystiq
Joystiq – http://twitter.com/LudwigK – Ludwig – Joystiq’s Senior Contributing Editor and aspiring writer.
Joystiq – http://twitter.com/Xav – Xav de Matos – Joystiq
Joystiq – http://twitter.com/justinmcelroy – Justin McElroy – He’s a blogger for Joystiq and an all around nice guy.
Kotaku – http://twitter.com/Kotaku
Kotaku – http://twitter.com/kotakufeed – RSS feed
Kotaku – http://twitter.com/LukePlunkett – Luke Plunkett
Kotaku – http://twitter.com/kotakumike
Kotaku – http://twitter.com/Brian_Ashcraft – Brian Ashcraft
Kotaku – http://twitter.com/tacobellmanager – Owen Good - Kotaku Associate Editor, Weekends
MTV multiplayer blog – http://twitter.com/multiplayers
MTV multiplayer blog – http://twitter.com/traceyjohn – Tracey John – Writer for MTV Multiplayer
Platform Biased – http://twitter.com/platformbiased – Three game testers and a microphone. Platform Biased podcast from the heart of Microsoft Game Studios
Platform Biased – http://twitter.com/JohnNoonan – John Noonan - make Xbox 360 games. I also co-host Platform Biased, the podcast from Microsoft Game Studios.
N’Gai Croal – http://twitter.com/ncroal – Journalist. Blogger. Griot.
n4g.com – http://twitter.com/n4g – RSS Feed from n4g.com
Official Xbox Magazine – http://twitter.com/OXM
One Life Left – http://twitter.com/onelifeleft – Official Twitter – Excellent podcast, get it downloaded.
One Life Left – http://twitter.com/byronicman – Presenter of One Life Left, occasional author, UK PR for Guitar Hero.
Player One Podcast – http://twitter.com/superpac – Player One Podcast producer/host, Games Producer for Adult Swim, ex-EGM News Editor
Qore – http://twitter.com/Qore – The team behind Qore on the PlayStation Network
UGO.com – http://twitter.com/RussFrushtick – Russ Frushtick – Games Editor, UGO.com
Sarcastic Gamer – http://twitter.com/SarcasticGamer
Sarcastic Gamer – http://twitter.com/LonoSG – Lono – Editor, Sarcastic Gamer
thePSN.co.uk – https://twitter.com/thepsn
TheSixthAxis – http://twitter.com/thesixthaxis
thisxboxlife – http://twitter.com/thisxboxlife
Total Gaming Network – http://twitter.com/TGN – Kieran Manzi
Yahoo Games – http://twitter.com/yahoogames
Yahoo Games – http://twitter.com/mike2468 – Mike Smith – Senior Editor, Yahoo! Games
Xbox360fanboy – http://twitter.com/xbox360fanboys
XBLradio – http://twitter.com/X3R0_9 – Mike Kaczmarski – Host/Editor of XBLRadio
Zero Punctuation – http://twitter.com/zeropunctuation - Twitter RSS feed for Zero Punctuation – Must see video reviews 
http://twitter.com/jaredr – News Correspondent @ The Escapist
Gaming Community
Acclaim – http://twitter.com/Historian – David “Historian” DeWald - Community Management, Acclaim, Spellborn, 2Moons, 9Dragons, PonyStars, Knight’s Blood, Tribal Nations,
Battlefield: Heroes – http://twitter.com/bfheroes
BioWare – http://twitter.com/ashentemper – Sean Dahlberg – The Community Manager for Star Wars: The Old Republic
Dead Space – Isaac Clarke – http://twitter.com/isaacclarke – Main character from EA’s Dead Space
Empire Total War – http://twitter.com/totalwar
Fable 2 – Fablefanboy.com – http://twitter.com/fablefanboy
gamerDNA.com – http://twitter.com/gamerDNA – Twitter account for www.gamerDNA.com and www.360voice.com
gamerDNA.com – http://twitter.com/samhouston – Sam Houston – Community Manager for www.GamerDNA.com – Wrote the original article that inspired putting together this post.
gamerDNA.com – http://twitter.com/CollinY2K – Collin - Interface Engineer for gamerDNA
gamerDNA.com – http://twitter.com/skio – Antares – Engineer for gamerDNA.com
gamerDNA.com – http://twitter.com/duhame – duhame – Creative Director / gamerDNA.com
gamerDNA.com – http://twitter.com/jradoff – Jon Radoff – GamerDNA CEO
gamerDNA.com – http://twitter.com/duhame – duhame – Creative Director / gamerDNA.com
Gears of War – http://twitter.com/SixOkay – Six Okay (Justin) – Community Manager for Gears of War
Gears of War – Adam Fenix – http://twitter.com/AdamFenix – (Not known if official)
Hitman – Agent 47 – http://twitter.com/agent47 – Character from he Hitman series of games - (Unconfirmed – no tweets as of yet)
Little Big Planet – Little Big Planetoid – http://twitter.com/lbplanetoid – Excellent Little Big Planet community site
Little Big Planet – http://twitter.com/LBPlanet – Community twitter, connecting Little Big Planet players, & sharing all LBP news.
Little Big Planet – http://www.littlebigland.com/ – http://twitter.com/LittleBigLand
PlayStation HOME – PSHOMEcentral.com – http://twitter.com/Pshomecentral
Raptr – http://twitter.com/Raptr
Resident Evil – Chris Redfield – http://twitter.com/ChrisRedfield
Rockband – RockBandDLC – http://twitter.com/RockBandDLC – Unofficial twitter for the latest Rockband downloadable content
Rockband – rockband_news – http://twitter.com/rockband_news
Sega – Phantasy Star – http://twitter.com/phantasystar
Sega – House Of The Dead – http://twitter.com/House_OfTheDead – Brrrraaaaaaaiiiiiinsssssss
Sega – Valkyria Tribune – http://twitter.com/ValkyriaTribune – ValkyriaTribune
Star Wars The Old Rebublic – http://twitter.com/swtor
The o35’s Community Forum – http://twitter.com/PhilBowen – Phil Bowen – admin for http://www.o35s.net/
The Sims 2 – http://twitter.com/TheSims2 – Official Twitter for The Sims 2
The Sims 3 – http://twitter.com/TheSims3 – Official Twitter for The Sims 3
Xbox Live Marketplace Content – http://twitter.com/XboxLiveDLC – I set his up myself, it takes the Markeptlace RSS feed from MajorNelson.com and tweets automatically when downloadable content is available on Xbox Live Marketplace
For Fun
Left 4 Dead Zoey – http://twitter.com/zoey_l4d
Left 4 Dead Francis – http://twitter.com/francis_l4d
Left 4 Dead Bill – http://twitter.com/bill_l4d
Left 4 Dead Louis – http://twitter.com/louis_l4d
The above four Twitter accounts will be recognised by anyone who has played Left 4 Dead. A project by Tom Armitage, known as Twit 4 dead, takes 4 twitter bots and simulates the four survivors dialogue over Twitter, sharing some state between the bots, but also finding a way to make them communicate a little with each other. Go here for more info http://infovore.org/archives/2008/12/29/twit-4-dead/
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