Keith Stuart
@keefstuart.bsky.social
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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🤖🌟 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
Reposted by Keith Stuart
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
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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...
What is the ratio of your book reading between fiction and non-fiction? I am, like, 85% fiction but I own sooooo much fascinating non-fiction which I fear will only ever be guiltily dipped into…
October 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What is the ratio of your book reading between fiction and non-fiction? I am, like, 85% fiction but I own sooooo much fascinating non-fiction which I fear will only ever be guiltily dipped into…
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Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism
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I wrote earlier about the magic of B-games and @keefstuart.bsky.social continues that perfectly while looking at Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
"The game is also a reminder that flawed-but-fascinating games were once the backbone of the industry."
Go read and remember the OK-weird games
"The game is also a reminder that flawed-but-fascinating games were once the backbone of the industry."
Go read and remember the OK-weird games
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I wrote earlier about the magic of B-games and @keefstuart.bsky.social continues that perfectly while looking at Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
"The game is also a reminder that flawed-but-fascinating games were once the backbone of the industry."
Go read and remember the OK-weird games
"The game is also a reminder that flawed-but-fascinating games were once the backbone of the industry."
Go read and remember the OK-weird games
Hi I wrote about the glory of seven-out-of-ten games focusing on Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2. I finished with vampire puns and I wish I could say I was sorry but…
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Average-but-arresting games used to be the backbone of the industry. What price perfection?
In this week’s newsletter: It used to be OK for games like Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 to be just, well, OK – but today’s boom and bust economy has almost erased an important genre
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hi I wrote about the glory of seven-out-of-ten games focusing on Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2. I finished with vampire puns and I wish I could say I was sorry but…
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Fascinating that he gives only left-leaning examples. Fascinating that he thinks platforming Reform so heavily is reflecting public interest when they have only a handful of MPs. And despite all this, when Reform gets in, they’ll de-fund the BBC in a heartbeat
BBC reporters cannot wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts in newsroom, says Tim Davie
BBC reporters cannot wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts in newsroom, says Tim Davie
Director general says it is inappropriate for a journalist who may be covering that issue ‘to be campaigning in that way’
BBC journalists cannot wear T-shirts in the newsroom supporting the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter, the corporation’s director general Tim Davie has said.
Davie said the BBC stood against racism but it was “not appropriate for a journalist who may be covering that issue to be campaigning in that way. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Fascinating that he gives only left-leaning examples. Fascinating that he thinks platforming Reform so heavily is reflecting public interest when they have only a handful of MPs. And despite all this, when Reform gets in, they’ll de-fund the BBC in a heartbeat
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To celebrate the NES' birthday, I got @mikedrucker.bsky.social to reminisce:
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods
Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for life
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October 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
To celebrate the NES' birthday, I got @mikedrucker.bsky.social to reminisce:
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
I wanted to review Silent Hill f but I didn’t want to rush it - so I didn’t. Consequently, here is my rather late verdict. It’s a masterpiece
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Silent Hill f review – fascinating horror game maims the monsters teenage girls face
After an apocalyptic supernatural fog descends, school girl Hinako wakes up in a town populated by psychosexual beasts and gaslighting men in masks
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I wanted to review Silent Hill f but I didn’t want to rush it - so I didn’t. Consequently, here is my rather late verdict. It’s a masterpiece
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Would anyone currently playing Battlefield 6 like to team up? I want to play in a squad that doesn’t just continually disband like some sort of militarised Pink Floyd reunion.
Caveat: I am terrible
Caveat: I am terrible
October 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Would anyone currently playing Battlefield 6 like to team up? I want to play in a squad that doesn’t just continually disband like some sort of militarised Pink Floyd reunion.
Caveat: I am terrible
Caveat: I am terrible
once again I need help with some research for my novel! I need to speak to women born between 1979 and 1981. If that is you, and you don’t mind chatting to me about 90s clothes, books, TV, etc, please let me know!
October 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
once again I need help with some research for my novel! I need to speak to women born between 1979 and 1981. If that is you, and you don’t mind chatting to me about 90s clothes, books, TV, etc, please let me know!
Sometimes as a writer it is important to really test yourself - to take risks, to break out of your comfort zone and do something radically new. With this in mind, I have written a nostalgic article about a Sega game
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s
As they flew above Yu Suzuki’s innovative, psychedelic 3D landscapes combating space dragons and alien rock monsters, the moving arcade cabinet would physically involve players in the action
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Sometimes as a writer it is important to really test yourself - to take risks, to break out of your comfort zone and do something radically new. With this in mind, I have written a nostalgic article about a Sega game
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
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I'm working on a Roblox story for a national outlet and keen to talk to parents of older teens (12-16) who play Roblox games:
✅ Which games do they play?
✅ Why play that rather than a console game?
✅ How do they find new Roblox games?
Shares appreciated #JournoRequest
✅ Which games do they play?
✅ Why play that rather than a console game?
✅ How do they find new Roblox games?
Shares appreciated #JournoRequest
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I'm working on a Roblox story for a national outlet and keen to talk to parents of older teens (12-16) who play Roblox games:
✅ Which games do they play?
✅ Why play that rather than a console game?
✅ How do they find new Roblox games?
Shares appreciated #JournoRequest
✅ Which games do they play?
✅ Why play that rather than a console game?
✅ How do they find new Roblox games?
Shares appreciated #JournoRequest
Hi I reviewed Battlefield 6.
Tldr:
multiplayer = great, back to classic Battlefield
Campaign = ughhh 🤢
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Tldr:
multiplayer = great, back to classic Battlefield
Campaign = ughhh 🤢
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Battlefield 6 review – operatic, ear-shattering all-encompassing warfare
In contrast to the blast-em-ups this franchise drops players into a vast and vividly realised military offensive and the latest instalment is a brilliant return to form
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hi I reviewed Battlefield 6.
Tldr:
multiplayer = great, back to classic Battlefield
Campaign = ughhh 🤢
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Tldr:
multiplayer = great, back to classic Battlefield
Campaign = ughhh 🤢
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
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?
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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?
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
October 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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