Keza MacDonald
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Keza MacDonald
@mackeza.bsky.social
Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
OH MY GOD, IT IS A REAL YOUTUBER
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Waterstones are doing 25% off preorders on my book Super Nintendo this week, alongside other 2026 titles. Preorders are super important for authors so please, buy your future self some cool books! www.waterstones.com/book/super-n...
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just doing a bit of research into pre-2015 queer game characters for something I'm writing. By god, we were DESPERATE
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Proof copies of the US edition of my book just arrived! The note from my editor has made me emotional

linktr.ee/super_nintendo
October 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
For Super Mario Bros' 40th anniversary, here is an enjoyable insight into its creation (from my forthcoming book, Super Nintendo - linktr.ee/super_nintendo)
September 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
For those in the US, that version is out slightly earlier on February 3rd and has an equally awesome cover (and a slightly different subtitle) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753986...
September 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I may have a problem
August 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Everything that @grahamsmith.bsky.social writes here about the purpose and technique of games criticism is so good that I want to steal it for my own style guide. (Actually a lot of this IS in my style guide, just not so brilliantly or succinctly expressed)

www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...
July 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's Pride month, so they legally have to let me put my gay nonsense in the paper
June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
May 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of these guys surely
March 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I hate the future
March 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monster Hunter fashion remains undefeated
February 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I was searching for a particular quote from Reggie Fils-Aimé about the Wii's marketing strategy and instead I get this. YouTubers and streamers BARELY EXISTED IN 2006 and also that picture is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONSOLE, aaaaaa
February 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What did you just call me?
February 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
FINALLY I can delete this app
January 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A normal amount of oats for a Scottish family
January 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My gaming hours are so spread across different platforms and different work/personal accounts that none of these wrap-ups are massively useful, but I'm pretty sure my most played game of the year is Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket at this point 🤦
December 12, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Damn right
December 12, 2024 at 11:37 AM
An entirely normal number of virtual Pokémon cards
December 10, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Thank you to everyone who responded to this with earnest baking advice. BEHOLD MY TRIUMPH
December 7, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Found one of my old Kotaku business cards. God I loved that job
November 19, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Didn't think I could love Astro Bot more, but we just bought a boxed copy and THIS is the manual
November 9, 2024 at 12:53 PM
FINALLY. And through a Wonder Pick too! I screamed aloud.

(Get in on this Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket action if you haven't already, it's been a fantastic distraction this week)
November 9, 2024 at 10:55 AM