Kyle Orland is a Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica. He covers a wide range of topics, including retro and new gaming hardware, business developments in the gaming industry, and the intersection of gaming with artificial intelligence and generative AI. Kyle has been featured in outlets such as Reason, WIRED, and ExtremeTech, and is the author of the book Minesweeper from Boss Fight Books.
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Kyle Orland primarily focuses on gaming and content & publishing. He may be interested in pitches related to new video game releases, industry trends, or analysis of the business and technology behind gaming. Given his coverage of AI-generated news anchors and the Android app store monopoly, he might also consider topics related to technology's impact on media.
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By: Kyle Orland
Last month, Anthropic announced a billing change that would have substantially increased costs for heavy users of its automation-focused Claude Agent SDK, including many third-party apps. On Monday, though, Anthropic abruptly announced it had paused those pricing changes just as they were set to take effect,… Mobile Apps & Add-Ons
By: Kyle Orland
Move affects ~20% of the gaming division, which will refocus on its biggest franchises.
Last month, Xbox executives laid out some "hard truths" about Microsoft's struggling gaming division that they said would require a difficult "Xbox reset." This morning, Microsoft revealed the brutal shape of that "reset," announcing plans for 3,200 layoffs and the divestment of five smaller studios that the…
By: Kyle Orland
On Monday, Nintendo announced that it will stop producing the original Switch in Europe next February.
7 pts On Monday, Nintendo announced that it will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next February. That decision comes in response to European regulations that will soon require easily replaceable batteries in most consumer electronics. Rather than redesigning multiple original Switch models to comply with…
By: Kyle Orland
As much as 50 percent of some teams affected by reductions, and more could be coming.
15 pts In announcing plans for 3,200 layoffs across the Xbox division yesterday, CEO Asha Sharma focused on discussing cuts to the Xbox platform team and redundant layers of middle management. Now, though, word is filtering out about significant staffing cuts at remaining Microsoft-owned game developers including id…
Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."
By: Kyle Orland
It would be nice to know for sure which games this beast can run that the Steam Deck can't...
Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.
