Keza Macdonald

From final boss battles to the dangers of open-world bloat, TV and film can learn a lot from video games Keza MacDonald Wed, January 7, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+2 6 min read Farewell, Hawkins … Stranger Things. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix/PA It had begun... See more

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (2005) Originally featured as a minigame in Project Gotham, this 80s-style twin-stick shooter was rebuilt as a standalone digital-only release, attracting a huge new fanbase. Fast, frenetic and super stylish, with lovely vecto... See more

Almost 20 years ago (on 1 December 2005, to be precise), I was at my very first video game console launch party somewhere around London’s Leicester Square. The Xbox 360 arrived on 22 November 2005 in the US and 2 December in the UK, about three months aft... See more

Arc Raiders is, by all accounts, a late game-of-the-year contender. Dropped into a multiplayer world overrun with hostile drones and military robots, every human player is at the mercy of the machines – and each other. Can you trust the other raider you’v... See more

This weekend, I spent more than eight hours in a theatre playing a video game about donkeys, reincarnation and organised labour with about 70 other people. Political, unpredictable and replete with ass puns, Asses.Masses is, on the one hand, a fairly rudi... See more