{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/63b458521043e00011114396/699c28561b49b62ccc8849f4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Keza Macdonald, author, games editor The Guardian.","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/63b458521043e00011114396/1771841582933-22a135e2-d5b3-41a9-8ee9-bb30a0bedb6d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Keza Macdonald is a Scottish journalist and editor who has spent more than two decades chronicling the culture and business of video games. She started early, as a junior staff writer for&nbsp;<strong>GamesTM</strong>&nbsp;while she was still a teenager. Then, after earning a degree in German and Japanese from the&nbsp;<strong>University of Edinburgh</strong>—including a year studying in Japan—she became UK Games Editor at&nbsp;<strong>IGN</strong>, helping shape the site’s global editorial strategy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>She then launched and led&nbsp;<strong>Kotaku UK</strong>, where her team won multiple industry awards. Since 2018 she has been Games Editor at&nbsp;<strong>The Guardian</strong>, where she writes the widely read “Pushing Buttons” newsletter and appears regularly on television and radio as an expert on the medium. She is the co-author of&nbsp;<strong>You Died: The Dark Souls Companion</strong>, and her new book,&nbsp;<strong>Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun</strong>, explores the cultural impact of one of gaming’s most influential companies.</p>","author_name":"Simon Parkin"}