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Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 19h

Apropos of nothing, here's the callout I wrote for Eurogamer about the glaring lack of female voices in the games media. I wrote this in *2018*. Things did seem to get better for a while but now we're backsliding again and the reasons for it haven't changed. www.eurogamer.net/why-the-game...

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Why the games media has a diversity problem - this website especially

Eurogamer has far too low a proportion of articles by female writers. Keza MacDonald, the Guardian's games editor, explains why this happens and what can be don

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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...

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Digital Journalist Scheme

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"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

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Brendy_C @brendyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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!

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

workwithus.theguardian.com

Digital Journalist Scheme

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(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

Flyer for an event at Loading Bar, Brighton on Oct 14 2026. I will be speaking with Steve Collett who worked on Alien 3 and Howard Rayner who worked on Alien: Isolation, about those very different experiences. Tickets are on sale now and the price basically covers costs and your first drink. Please come?

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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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!!

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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...

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Silent Hill: Townfall review – shame and suffering on the Scottish coast

Tragedy, and an apocalyptic fog, befall a fishing community. It is up to outsider Simon to offer some kind of closure

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 21/09/2026

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

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy Silent Hill Townfall day to all who celebrate

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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austinbroth.bsky.social @austinbroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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

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Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights

The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, it’s looked back on with misty-eyed reverence

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy 25th birthday to the Nintendo GameCube, the first games console I bought with my own money. I started saving up for it the month I bought this issue of Edge, nearly a year previously. What a cover!

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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

Keza, furious, scowling at a laptop with a tiny Koelsch beer in hand, whilst Leon is passed out in a chair

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So relieved that the Ocarina of Time remake looks that good. Link looks like a little doll and Hyrule Castle Town looks like a living Playmobil village but I mean all of that in a GOOD way

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can't tell you how many times I've had a version of this soul-destroying answer to the very basic question "what are your game's influences"

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chiba_latte @chibalatte.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Someone is into shmups at the local rescue

Screenshot of cat adoption page with multiple cats with shmup names (Gradius, Raiden, Twinbee, Garegga)

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Went to check on my sleeping children before going to bed last night and discovered that one of them had covered the other one in post-it notes

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Very occasionally I will STILL get an honest to god piece of electronic mail about an IGN review I wrote in like 2011, from someone who remains mad about the score

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This nasty little compilation of Trumpian fascist distractions exists more to rile people up than to persuade anyone of anything - nobody is going to be radicalised by a horrid take on Snake where you capture migrants. But nonetheless, people shouldn't be blind to gaming's propagandist potential:

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The Trump White House’s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade

A string of distractions on the US government’s own website invite you to catch pixelated migrants – showing gaming’s potential to be nastily weaponised

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is today. Come along if you like video games and Alien and Alien video games.

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The Trump White House’s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade

A string of distractions on the US government’s own website invite you to catch pixelated migrants – showing gaming’s potential to be nastily weaponised

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Meghan Ellis Brown @meghan0n.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This afternoon I'm in less of a huff about this but I mean it...! I've written about anime since 2015, did festival judging, spoke about it for the BBC, did a report for IGN... you should get me to cover anime 🥰

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Would any game developers like to weigh in on whether this horrible little propaganda arcade is vibe-coded? I almost hope no humans were involved www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/

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Arcade

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Dani Lucas @daniellamlucas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pleased I could break this story. I feel like it’s only going to get worse with the 30th anniversary set only a few weeks away

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The increasing value of Pokémon cards has, perhaps unsurprisingly, led to a spate of mail thefts in the UK, costing small businesses thousands. Report: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...

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Thieves target mail order sales as Pokémon card prices soar

As one card recently sold for £12m, opportunistic thefts have surged – envelopes are being opened en route, costing small businesses thousands

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love that Microsoft literally cancelled the first Psychonauts and 20+ years later they retconned it into being one of the most important games on the system

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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Capcom is on a generational run. But this is no renaissance: the company has never been greater. I reported on the secret of its success, from "Crapcom" in the early 2010s to its one-banger-after-another present, speaking to many of its most illustrious producers. www.theringer.com/2026/09/03/v...

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How Capcom Cracked the Code of Game Development

The video game industry is in turmoil, but 2026 could be Capcom’s career year. How does the company behind ‘Resident Evil Requiem,’ ‘Pragmata,’ and ‘Onimusha: Way of the Sword’ keep pumping out hits?

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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Last month I went to Japan and spent an hour with FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki, in an attempt to understand why he makes games the way he does. He also told me he doesn’t have a foot fetish. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...

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‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world

As FromSoftware’s new multiplayer game The Duskbloods nears release, the legendary game director behind Dark Souls talks connection, pessimism and of course, feet

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sent @mckkirk.bsky.social to Tokyo to interview Hidetaka Miyazaki. He asked the tough questions. (Read the whole thing, it's a banger) www.theguardian.com/games/2026/s...

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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore

a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A whole section where Odysseus says he thought Inception was overrated

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament

Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our summer games preview series wrapped up today. It is well worth a look - every year our writers pick out games that go on to be underground hits (alongside the obvious big games that people also like to read about) www.theguardian.com/games/series...

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Summer games previews | The Guardian

<p>We profile the most interesting upcoming video games, and the people making them</p>

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you're still in Edinburgh, our last show is tonight. I'm really gonna go weird with this one because FUCK IT, WE ARE ALMOST DONE. @gildedballoon.bsky.social Teviot Dining Room 10:30 pm

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