Keza MacDonald
@mackeza.bsky.social
Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
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Keza MacDonald
@mackeza.bsky.social
· Sep 3
My book, Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, is out next February! It is a lively cultural history of the world's most beloved video game company, drawing from 20 years' worth of reporting and interviews. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/super_nintendo
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remember when you could go online and search for "good pillow" and you'd get like blog posts reviewing and comparing pillows but now you just get an Amazon page for Good Pillow Great Sleeping Perfect for Single or Couple Great Soft sleepy Dream Pillow for soft Bedtime Relaxation pillow ($97.83)
December 31, 2025 at 5:33 AM
remember when you could go online and search for "good pillow" and you'd get like blog posts reviewing and comparing pillows but now you just get an Amazon page for Good Pillow Great Sleeping Perfect for Single or Couple Great Soft sleepy Dream Pillow for soft Bedtime Relaxation pillow ($97.83)
Had this thought whilst being gently mocked for not being on TikTok the other day. It is okay for us to have our almost-middle-aged website dammit! Forums, IRC chatrooms, the good versions of social media, they're all gone now! We need SOMEWHERE to peacefully recreate our dumb old internet
Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.
December 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Had this thought whilst being gently mocked for not being on TikTok the other day. It is okay for us to have our almost-middle-aged website dammit! Forums, IRC chatrooms, the good versions of social media, they're all gone now! We need SOMEWHERE to peacefully recreate our dumb old internet
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2025 recapped
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
2025 recapped
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ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes!
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
September 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes!
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
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thank you @mackeza.bsky.social for finally coining a term for vampire-survivors-likes - "horde control"
Every year I ask the Guardian's games contributors to come up with some lesser-known game recommendations, and every year I end up with a bunch of impulse purchases in the Steam winter sale
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
The video games you may have missed in 2025
Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
thank you @mackeza.bsky.social for finally coining a term for vampire-survivors-likes - "horde control"
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Well thanks to The Guardian's GOTY list I now know Blippo+ exists and why am I only now finding out about Blippo+.
This is incredible. 80s public access FMV Sim? What?
Sorry, the Rubber Report with Neomie Lifto is on g2g.
store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/...
This is incredible. 80s public access FMV Sim? What?
Sorry, the Rubber Report with Neomie Lifto is on g2g.
store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/...
Save 20% on Blippo+ on Steam
Blippo+ is a live-action, off-cable TV simulator. Channel-surf the stars and discover the staticky, radical world of Planet Blip through its soaps, sitcoms, news, weather, and talk shows. But don’t to...
store.steampowered.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Well thanks to The Guardian's GOTY list I now know Blippo+ exists and why am I only now finding out about Blippo+.
This is incredible. 80s public access FMV Sim? What?
Sorry, the Rubber Report with Neomie Lifto is on g2g.
store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/...
This is incredible. 80s public access FMV Sim? What?
Sorry, the Rubber Report with Neomie Lifto is on g2g.
store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/...
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Every year I ask the Guardian's games contributors to come up with some lesser-known game recommendations, and every year I end up with a bunch of impulse purchases in the Steam winter sale
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
The video games you may have missed in 2025
Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Every year I ask the Guardian's games contributors to come up with some lesser-known game recommendations, and every year I end up with a bunch of impulse purchases in the Steam winter sale
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
Every year I ask the Guardian's games contributors to come up with some lesser-known game recommendations, and every year I end up with a bunch of impulse purchases in the Steam winter sale
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
The video games you may have missed in 2025
Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Every year I ask the Guardian's games contributors to come up with some lesser-known game recommendations, and every year I end up with a bunch of impulse purchases in the Steam winter sale
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
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Vince was always someone you looked forward to interviewing at game events. He had a true enthusiasm for games and the player experience that was rare among execs. A creative of exceptional standing, he will be enormously missed
Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty video game series, dies aged 55
Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty video game series, dies aged 55
Game developer, who was also involved in Medal of Honor and Titanfall, reportedly killed in a car crash
Vince Zampella, the co-creator of the Call of Duty video game series, has died aged 55.
The head of the video game developer Respawn Entertainment and the co-founder of Infinity Ward, was killed in a car crash in California, NBC Los Angeles reported. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Vince was always someone you looked forward to interviewing at game events. He had a true enthusiasm for games and the player experience that was rare among execs. A creative of exceptional standing, he will be enormously missed
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Money and power are concentrating in video games in the same way as in the wider world. And games influence people’s thoughts and attitudes: the most powerful people in the world have started to realise this. I wrote about the state of play at the end of 2025:
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?
This year has brought us many brilliant video games – but as wealth continues to concentrate, and games are used to exert economic and political influence, we need to keep an eye on the top players
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Money and power are concentrating in video games in the same way as in the wider world. And games influence people’s thoughts and attitudes: the most powerful people in the world have started to realise this. I wrote about the state of play at the end of 2025:
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
Money and power are concentrating in video games in the same way as in the wider world. And games influence people’s thoughts and attitudes: the most powerful people in the world have started to realise this. I wrote about the state of play at the end of 2025:
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?
This year has brought us many brilliant video games – but as wealth continues to concentrate, and games are used to exert economic and political influence, we need to keep an eye on the top players
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Money and power are concentrating in video games in the same way as in the wider world. And games influence people’s thoughts and attitudes: the most powerful people in the world have started to realise this. I wrote about the state of play at the end of 2025:
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
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Me logging into COD
December 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Me logging into COD
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My book about Nintendo is out soon! Early readers have said incredibly nice things about it! Pre-order here for US/UK: linktr.ee/super_nintendo
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My book about Nintendo is out soon! Early readers have said incredibly nice things about it! Pre-order here for US/UK: linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Is anyone else still playing Pokémon Trading Card Pocket? I need more trading/sharing friends! 8422056186737160 is my player ID
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Is anyone else still playing Pokémon Trading Card Pocket? I need more trading/sharing friends! 8422056186737160 is my player ID
Hugely enjoyed @jmrivera.bsky.social's review of the Simogo Collection, a boutique collection of games from a time when it didn't feel like your smartphone was poisoning you. The App Store's golden window for games lasted such a short while 😔
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
Simogo Legacy Collection review – remember when phone games were this wonderful?
A suite of iOS classics is lovingly preserved in this collection from the Swedish developer, early standard-setters of the meaningful smartphone game
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hugely enjoyed @jmrivera.bsky.social's review of the Simogo Collection, a boutique collection of games from a time when it didn't feel like your smartphone was poisoning you. The App Store's golden window for games lasted such a short while 😔
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
Incredibly depressing stat that explains a lot about How Things Are: only 14% of all the time people played games on Steam this year was spent on new games released in 2025. (The 92% stat is mine, obviously it is my job to play new games)
December 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Incredibly depressing stat that explains a lot about How Things Are: only 14% of all the time people played games on Steam this year was spent on new games released in 2025. (The 92% stat is mine, obviously it is my job to play new games)
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Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.
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I've been helping out at The Guardian's games team this year with edits and other support - thanks @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity, and to the (brilliant) freelancers I've worked with these past few months.
A reminder if any sites in 2026 need an additional editor during busy periods, HMU!
A reminder if any sites in 2026 need an additional editor during busy periods, HMU!
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I've been helping out at The Guardian's games team this year with edits and other support - thanks @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity, and to the (brilliant) freelancers I've worked with these past few months.
A reminder if any sites in 2026 need an additional editor during busy periods, HMU!
A reminder if any sites in 2026 need an additional editor during busy periods, HMU!
Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards
Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
Keep having to delete nauseating emails from companies inviting me to "enhance creativity" with various AI tools. MY CREATIVITY IS FINE, THANK YOU. Is this how men feel when they get constant spam about boner pills
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Keep having to delete nauseating emails from companies inviting me to "enhance creativity" with various AI tools. MY CREATIVITY IS FINE, THANK YOU. Is this how men feel when they get constant spam about boner pills
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When you start Dark Souls
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When you start Dark Souls
I don't know if this is true for other outlets (pls tell me!), but for me, coverage of The Game Awards never generates much traffic. Summer Game Fest doesn't either. (E3 used to.) I think wide-ranging online conversation gives the impression that it must be a huge views driver, but it simply isn't 🤷
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don't know if this is true for other outlets (pls tell me!), but for me, coverage of The Game Awards never generates much traffic. Summer Game Fest doesn't either. (E3 used to.) I think wide-ranging online conversation gives the impression that it must be a huge views driver, but it simply isn't 🤷
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...