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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A special prize to whoever placed this horror conference sign in this precise location

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I am here! It’s so fascinating! Love an academic horror gaming conference 👍

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I bought a copy of Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for my forthcoming feature on charity shop video games. It was £1 in Oxfam. These were the people who left saved games on the cart

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

As an example of my research so far, THIS was the only game for sale in one local charity shop on Saturday. (If you need this to complete your collection of ‘games based on suggestively-titled quiz shows’, please let me know and I’ll purchase it)

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I suppose this press release subject header was considered radically provocative by the agency that sent it to me but I don’t think I’ve ever been less inclined to cover a game

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I bought an old copy of the Guardian - dated 15 Dec 1980 - in a charity shop and found this story about Apple’s stock market debut! It was valued at $65m… I think it’s worth a punt

Newspaper story about Apple’s stock market debut

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Reviewing the return of some cutting edge technology today

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Just hoping Bandai’s electrical engineering is better than its grasp of the possessive apostrophe

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Bandai Missile Invader, 1980. it’s possible I should spend less time hanging about on livestreamed auctions

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For some reason today, I have remembered the fascinating iPhone game Blackbar, from 2013 about a censorious dystopian regime mrgan.com/blackbar/pre...

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Incredible charity shop DVD haul this morning!

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

God, I am so, so sick of these monsters. I am sick of the people who enable them and give them power

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Been writing another Sega feature…

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Got my copy of On Magazine volume 2 and it’s beautiful!! I wrote about 90s horror games and their insidious influence on modern designers

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Just sharing the most terrifying image in horror game history

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Have you ever gone on eBay because you’re bored and can’t sleep and then four days later an Orion dual video cassette player turns up?

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

My mid-90s internet research continues with this vital artefact

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Doing some book research into the mid-90s internet - this is a glossary from The Internet For Beginners, Usborne, 1997. It has made me feel very nostalgic

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Viewed my 99th ‘BFI 250 Best Films’ movie - Le Mepris! It is very beautiful with an incredibly luscious score and gorgeous cinematography - and it has Fritz Lang in it. Would watch again

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Please please go and see Jaws while it’s on in the cinema. Alright, it’s my fave ever film so I am biased but it’s an amazing experience

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Well, the greatest GamesCom 2025 moment has already happened - Limited Run games has announced He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction a 2D brawler based on the classic cartoon. It better have the original music and Adam ➡️ He-Man transformation sequence

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction screenshot

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Still trying to come to terms with this sentence from the opening para of the Economist’s recent piece on the value of games to the UK economy

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I was a big fan of the game which is how I ended up getting into Championship Manager and then working on the Official Football Manager magazine for Sports Interactive. Fun times

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

My novel Frequency of Us is recommended in this month’s Bath Life magazine! @littlebrown.bsky.social

Bath Life magazine article on recommended books about Bath

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Probably going to get told off for this

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Oh god, do I get a prize? A golden organic lentil maybe? A night out with George Monbiot? Anyway thank you @theguardian.com for letting me write about video games for a newspaper for most of my adult life 👾♥️📰

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Excellent car boot purchase today - I’d forgotten how magazines and books of this era referred to home computers as ‘micros’ - so cute

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Going through my photos from Develop conference and there are a LOT of Power Point slides! This is quite an interesting business one from Omdia showing the number of games released each year versus consumer spend. I’m not going to interpret it as i don’t work on Saturdays

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I accidentally tagged the wrong person into my post yesterday so here it is again - I wrote about the history and legacy of 1990s horror games for the gorgeous @ongamesjournal.bsky.social volume two - out now!

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Hello once again I find myself writing the Guardian’s Pushing Buttons newsletter and needing a question about video games. Do YOU have a question about video games? Do you know someone who does? Why not get in touch?

A screen shot from comedy sketch series That Mitchell and Webb Show, with David Mitchell playing a TV news anchor

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

They’re not lying when they say Death Stranding 2 has profound truths to share

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

LOVE the 80s arcade game graphics on the video screen behind Japanese Breakfast! 😍🕹️👾 #glastonbury

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Switch 2 has arrived - here it is with Nintendo’s much loved mascot!

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My dog Betty is maintaining her look-out for the Switch 2 delivery

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It is world goth day!! Please consider celebrating by ordering my gothic mystery novel, Love is a Curse! If you get it from my local indie book store I will sign it for you and stamp it with my spooky raven ink stamp! Bit.ly/loveisacurse...

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Where does this screenshot come from? Find out in Issue 9 of The Bathysphere, a newsletter about interesting video game things written by me, Christian Donlan and @florencesn.bsky.social! It’s out now. Subscribe here: ButtonDown.com/bathysphere

A mysterious screenshot showing letters and technical terms on a black background. What can it mean?

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I AM *REVIEWING* A MEGA DRIVE GAME. Never thought this day would come.

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My fave Angela Bassett film of the 90s

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I’m going be acting Guardian games editor for a couple of weeks and we all know what that means: gratuitous retro game nostalgia articles! I’m just writing the first one and it’s a corker…

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Here for the last ever @nowplaythis.bsky.social today. Bought my sons when they were little 😢

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Games industry: the future is photorealistic visuals and sleek AI generated content Nintendo:

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I didn’t know how to illustrate this week’s Dominik Diamond column which is about the old TMNT game on the spectrum, so I blew up the wonderfully camp loading screen and used that and I love it

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I bought a 1981 copy of the sci-fi mag Starburst in an old bookshop today and it has a *really* sniffy review of Empire Strikes Back!

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I was misinformed. There are modern rebuilds of Daytona and Dance Dance Revolution and a couple of new Raw Fury movie tie-in games but no classics

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