Keith Stuart
@keefstuart.bsky.social
Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
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gathered together some of my old games that had fallen off the internet
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
lots of michael brough games by Michael Brough
collection
smestorp.itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
gathered together some of my old games that had fallen off the internet
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
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Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch.
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Rockstar Games’ MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch.
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Games industry: games are art
Also games industry: “This transaction supports our key priorities by strengthening our focus on strategic assets and core IPs”
Also games industry: “This transaction supports our key priorities by strengthening our focus on strategic assets and core IPs”
Embracer has sold two more companies from its acquisition spree era: Remnant publisher Arc Games and Neverwinter developer Cryptic Studios.
vgc.news/news/embrace...
vgc.news/news/embrace...
Embracer sells two more companies from its acquisition spree era, as Remnant and Neverwinter firms offloaded | VGC
Arc Games and Cryptic Studios have been sold by Embracer…
vgc.news
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Games industry: games are art
Also games industry: “This transaction supports our key priorities by strengthening our focus on strategic assets and core IPs”
Also games industry: “This transaction supports our key priorities by strengthening our focus on strategic assets and core IPs”
For most authors (anyone not regularly on the bestseller list) every single sale counts. The booksellers notice and our publishers notice. Please buy books
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For most authors (anyone not regularly on the bestseller list) every single sale counts. The booksellers notice and our publishers notice. Please buy books
Hello I have suggested some Xmas gifts for gamers - these are all things that I own, have tested or that I really want for Christmas. That’s not a hint
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
16 brilliant Christmas gifts for gamers
From Minecraft chess and coding for kids to retro consoles and Doom on vinyl for grown-ups – hit select and start with these original non-digital presents
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hello I have suggested some Xmas gifts for gamers - these are all things that I own, have tested or that I really want for Christmas. That’s not a hint
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
The Guardian chose my article on the Sega Master System as one of its six great reads of the week! 😊
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Six great reads: the world’s scariest CEO, gen Z in the workplace, and a lost great console
Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Guardian chose my article on the Sega Master System as one of its six great reads of the week! 😊
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Fair warning! Xmas be approaching, which means I'll be going into full-on retro gaming Christmas mode on Dec 1 and posting old ads, articles, covers, and sundry gaming festive content throughout the month. So if you hate Xmas, you probably better mute me 'til the New Year!
🎄
🎄
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Fair warning! Xmas be approaching, which means I'll be going into full-on retro gaming Christmas mode on Dec 1 and posting old ads, articles, covers, and sundry gaming festive content throughout the month. So if you hate Xmas, you probably better mute me 'til the New Year!
🎄
🎄
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I finally submitted the proofs and index today, so my Game Gear book is finally done. It was supposed to be out in fall, but it should arrive in January. That book was a blast to write, and I'm happy to have shown the Game Gear some love. It's quite an underrated little handheld.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I finally submitted the proofs and index today, so my Game Gear book is finally done. It was supposed to be out in fall, but it should arrive in January. That book was a blast to write, and I'm happy to have shown the Game Gear some love. It's quite an underrated little handheld.
God, I am so, so sick of these monsters. I am sick of the people who enable them and give them power
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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My first console. Sold it all in the 90s. Have steadily reacquired consoles, games and accessories in the last few years. This control stick. Honestly.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
My first console. Sold it all in the 90s. Have steadily reacquired consoles, games and accessories in the last few years. This control stick. Honestly.
Hi I wrote about the Sega Master System and how it’s been criminally overlooked because everyone goes on about the NES like it was the only 8bit console in the world look don’t get me started
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Master System at 40: the truth about Sega’s most underrated console
Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System dominated the markets in Japan and the US. But in Europe, a technologically superior rival was making it look like an ancient relic
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hi I wrote about the Sega Master System and how it’s been criminally overlooked because everyone goes on about the NES like it was the only 8bit console in the world look don’t get me started
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Been writing another Sega feature…
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Been writing another Sega feature…
I miss those 1990s thrillers with lavish orchestral scores in which highly competent government and FBI agents solve mysteries with the help of huge computers and somebody says “it’s my ass on the line here!”
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I miss those 1990s thrillers with lavish orchestral scores in which highly competent government and FBI agents solve mysteries with the help of huge computers and somebody says “it’s my ass on the line here!”
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🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
Great piece by Alyssa on the poor treatment of talented upcoming developers by the Games Awards
Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
“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...
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Great piece by Alyssa on the poor treatment of talented upcoming developers by the Games Awards
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If you were a member of The Game Awards Future Class and can speak to your experience, I want to chat with you for The Guardian!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you were a member of The Game Awards Future Class and can speak to your experience, I want to chat with you for The Guardian!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.
Signal boost please!
This should be reported alongside any coverage of the GTA 6 delay
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise
According to The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain, the developer fired more than 30 staff last week for being members of a union-affiliated Discord channel
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This should be reported alongside any coverage of the GTA 6 delay
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
Hello I wrote about the long symbiotic relationship between The Simpsons and video games. “Keep firing; convert the heathens!”
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
The Simpsons has a long, weird love affair with video games
The Fortnite tie-in is only the latest in a longstanding relationship between The Simpsons and video games, showing how the hit sitcom has survived as a cultural icon
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hello I wrote about the long symbiotic relationship between The Simpsons and video games. “Keep firing; convert the heathens!”
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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Back in The Guardian. Thanks @keefstuart.bsky.social for the opp and edits, and for destroying any semblance of productivity I have for the rest of the month as I get Tranmere Rovers to the Champions League final
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Football Manager 26 review –a modern sim for the modern game
After a two-year wait, Football Manager 26 upgrades every aspect of the football sim, but it may take some getting used to
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Back in The Guardian. Thanks @keefstuart.bsky.social for the opp and edits, and for destroying any semblance of productivity I have for the rest of the month as I get Tranmere Rovers to the Champions League final
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Teen Vogue has been an amazing resource for understanding US politics. We really are in the bad place
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Teen Vogue has been an amazing resource for understanding US politics. We really are in the bad place
Hello, I wrote about Mortal Kombat and moral panic to celebrate the release of the very good Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection!
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
How Mortal Kombat (and moral panic) changed the gaming world
On its release in 1993, Midway’s fighting game ushered in a new era of hyperviolent gaming that continues to influence the industry to this day
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hello, I wrote about Mortal Kombat and moral panic to celebrate the release of the very good Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection!
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Just sharing the most terrifying image in horror game history
October 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Just sharing the most terrifying image in horror game history
I reviewed The Seance of Blake Manor by @spookydoorway.bsky.social and absolutely adored it. Interesting procedural detective work, folk horror, Irish mythology, colonial subtexts and jump scares!! 👻
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
The Séance of Blake Manor review – gripping gothic detective game steeped in mystery and menace
An atmospheric folk-horror adventure combines colonial guilt, spiritualism and supernatural chills in a tale of secrets and seances on Ireland’s haunted west coast
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I reviewed The Seance of Blake Manor by @spookydoorway.bsky.social and absolutely adored it. Interesting procedural detective work, folk horror, Irish mythology, colonial subtexts and jump scares!! 👻
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...