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Keith Stuart

@keefstuart.bsky.social

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Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. My weird gothic mystery ‘Love is a Curse’ is out now 👻 Order here and I’ll sign it for you! Bit.ly/loveisacursesigned

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 1d

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?

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 3d

I own it too!

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 3d

Me too! It’s up there with Hackers in my opinion!

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 3d

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

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 4d

I had all their albums

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 4d

Oh thank you, this is really useful! The history of the web is so patchy!

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 4d

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

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 4d

Keza just shared an example of this with me and now I’m too angry to eat my lunch

Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 4d

As a video games journalist I am very used to men emailing me to tell me things I already know, but a fun new subgenre of this is men emailing me *ChatGPT summaries of things I already know*

Strong contender for most annoying use of AI (it's a crowded field)

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve decided it’s a mobile library that they drive to the celebrities

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 5d

This is excellent work from @eurogamer.bsky.social

www.eurogamer.net/eas-takeover...

EA's takeover, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, and "vanity mega projects": Human Rights Watch assesses the impact of gaming's latest controversy

EA's leveraged buyout raises ethical concerns due to Saudi Arabia's involvement. Eurogamer speaks to Human Rights Watch to learn more.

www.eurogamer.net

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t worry everyone - whatever happens to EA, Andrew Wilson will be totally ok!

www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops [Update]

Behold, the tallest chart in Game File history. PLUS: EA execs were paid (a little) more for boosting generative AI

www.gamefile.news

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 9d

The beautiful Mega Drive book I wrote for is being re-released in a luxurious new format 😍😍

Read-Only Memory @readonlymemory.com · 9d

The definitive version of our Sega Mega Drive history – the Deluxe Edition – is a love letter to the Japanese packaging, with a screen printed acrylic slipcase featuring the red/green branding...

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 9d

Hello, I have recommended some new(ish) cosy games for autumn! Comments are open so please come and add your own faves!

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Occult objects, a dead dynasty and a mobile bookshop: ten cosy new video games for autumn

From shopkeeping sims to daring dating, here are the best games to snuggle up with as the weather turns

www.theguardian.com

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19d

MAGA have found this neat Gamergate cheatcode whereby you unleash your lunatic internet army to make death threats against staff of the corporation you're trying to bully, thereby allowing its leadership to neatly sidestep the moral implications of caving by claiming it's a staff safety decision.

Several of the individuals who spoke to CNN said that Disney employees and staff members on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” began to receive death threats following Carr’s remarks on Wednesday, with their email addresses and phone numbers being doxed and blasted across social media. For Disney, the issue under consideration was bigger than Kimmel: It became a safety issue for employees and the show’s advertisers.

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18d

Fix your brain and heart

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20d

For a long time I refused to believe there were real x-inverters - like I didnt believe there were real flat earthers - I thought they were just trolls 😂

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20d

Oh i seeeee! Someone else mentioned this but I couldn’t see it but your highlighting helped! I’ve changed it now!

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20d

Yes, sadly the ethical dimensions of controller inversion were outside of the remit of this particular study. Clearly more work is needed.

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20d

Ah I think the wording might not be perfect. So the faster people were at manipulating objects in 3D the less likely they were to be control inverters - in other words non-inverters were faster. However people who sometimes inverted were the slowest of all participants in the research

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 20d

Five years ago I wrote an article asking the question: why do some gamers invert their controls. The piece led to scientific research and now a paper has been published! I spoke to the researchers responsible…

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamers

www.theguardian.com

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 21d

‘Tis surely better to quote Dishonored now than to regret not doing so later

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s the silly thing I wrote about getting random lines of video game dialogue stuck in your head. Finally, some action…

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Why random lines of video game dialogue get stuck in our heads

From famous Street Fighter lines to quips from 90s classics, these are the quotes we hear again and again – and even incorporate into our own lives

www.theguardian.com

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 21d

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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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 26d

James Chapman
“Reform featuring in a quarter of all BBC News at Ten bulletins - far more than the Lib Dems, who have 18 times as many MPs, and far too often policy is unscrutinised, according to an authoritative new study. Something’s gone badly wrong at the BBC” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage

Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds

www.theguardian.com

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 29d

It only took me 107 hours. Thank you @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp!