Keza MacDonald

Six months of Super Nintendo! And it's my birthday this week! This book is the culmination of 20 years' work as a games journalist - all the time I've spent interviewing Nintendo creatives and thinking deeply about games and the place they occupy in our lives. Pick up a copy linktr.ee/super_nintendo

if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

Wrote about BioWare closing for The Guardian. Still can’t really believe it. Thanks @mackeza.bsky.social ♥️ www.theguardian.com/games/2026/o...

Meet the baby I’ve been cooking up for the last year. Out next summer. Pre-orders soon!

Switch Sports Resort has very genuinely been the gaming event of the year in my household (to be fair my kids are a bit young for GTA) - it made me feel very nostalgic, perhaps because it's got WaveRace and PilotWings DNA in there www.theguardian.com/games/2026/o...

I had the great pleasure of reading an early copy of Jordan's new book on Super Mario Galaxy - it's a delight, highly recommended Wii nostalgia

Over at @theguardian.com I reviewed Belmont’s Curse. This was a tougher review to figure out!.Super stylish! When it sings, it really sings! But something is off.. It also puts forth a terrible first impression and takes a while to reveal the good stuff. Clever at times, frustrating in others.

This was absolutely great fun last night, long live VGC

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Just back from Dominik Diamond Sings The Video Games. Having spent five years editing (excessive) dick jokes out of his columns, it was enormous fun to see him let loose on stage @dominikdiamond.bsky.social

Just back from Dominik Diamond Sings The Video Games. Having spent five years editing (excessive) dick jokes out of his columns, it was enormous fun to see him let loose on stage @dominikdiamond.bsky.social

10yo asked what i did at the festival and i said oh it's a book festival, so i just talked about my books, and he said "yikes" under his breath

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

Signing 1000 of these was a treat, lemme tell ya

Games media cuts have felt unending for a while, but the mood feels especially grim among indie outlets with the latest wave of layoffs. More than ever, if the game industry values its media, it needs to support them. Buy some advertising, sponsor content, purchase subs. It makes a big difference.

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The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...

"Influencers" really will receive a box of swag and IMMEDIATELY turn around and sell it for massive profit. Sometimes they even brag about it. It's the games press who are corrupt tho, remember

Our review of Ace Combat 8 from @jintor.itch.io is a really good example of how to write well about a niche series - he's made me want to play it www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...

I was at the Guardian part-time for years and it was one of the most reliable jobs I've ever had. I got bad carpal tunnel and was given lots of leave. I stole my vertical mouse when I left and nobody complained. Excellent place to work if you can get it!

Oh this is a good story from @leadergrev.bsky.social and People Make Games. Real gnarly journalism stuff. That this can happen under US libel law - which is famously protective of the press, in contrast to much more restrictive UK libel law - says a lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

A beautiful new ultra-luxe edition of You Died to celebrate the book's 10th anniversary (and Dark Souls' 15th anniversary). LOOK AT IT!

(Taps mic) Testing. I've set up a Luma event for a special Alien-s chat on October 14. I'll be talking Alien games development of the 1990s and now(ish) with two special guests. Please check it out. (Ticket covers a cocktail for you, PA hire and staff wages, that's it.) luma.com/p4pjgibd

I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!

Silent Hill: Townfall is good — very good, in fact. Especially the sequence in a municipal-style high rise building which plays like a slow-burn, Ballardian take on The Raid. It's a game less of psychosexual terror than psychosocial dread: I was hooked. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...

Can you eat a roll and pie to restore your health in the new Silent Hill.

An impressively exhaustive report on one of many morally bankrupt companies buying up old websites and turning them into zombie AI farms. In the games space this has happened to Videogamer, Game Reactor and more. Utterly bleak futurism.com/artificial-i...

You can put regular sized shoes on Sora in Fortnite and it looks insane

For its 25th anniversary, I wrote about the GameCube - an underappreciated console that prompted unprecedented change within Nintendo. It was mocked at the time but it's remembered fondly now, an uncomplicated box of fun that appeared right when games were entering their 'performatively adult' stage

Incredible photo from Gamescom 2014 featuring @leonhurley.bsky.social. Truly we captured the spirit of the event

Watching the UK stream is honestly a Nintendo Direct hack. Everything is 5% less stupid and ALSO, they just subtitle the Japanese developers rather than overdubbing them, so you can hear eg Eiji Aonuma being adorable talking over the Zelda demo rather than a voice actor performing over him

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

"I am tired of Earth. These gamers. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."