Kyle Orland is a Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica. He covers a wide range of topics within the gaming industry, including retro games, gaming hardware, business developments, fan communities, and the rise of generative AI. Kyle's work has been featured in notable publications such as Reason, WIRED, and NPR, and he is also the author of a book on Minesweeper.
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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
Remember the original Quest headset that Meta (then Oculus) trumpeted back in 2019? Meta seems to hope you don't, since the company officially stopped supporting the wireless VR headset in 2023 to focus on the more popular Quests 2 and 3. Luckily, tinkerers haven't similarly abandoned the hardware and recently…
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Most" Xbox One and Series games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.
By: Kyle Orland
The tiny handheld with the big tariff refund! Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming
By: Kyle Orland
Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year. The news comes months after the Supreme Court said in a February ruling that… Subscribing To Digital Newspaper Outlets
By: Kyle Orland
A researcher reacts in surprise as Claude figures out how to make a robot arms pick up an aluminum can.
By: Kyle Orland
For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so, the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data and actions that take place inside a computer. Anthropic is now aiming to change that somewhat with what it's calling the Model… Explore AI Tools
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This weapon, seen in a newly revealed Portal 2 prototype, was previously seen in Half-Life 2: Episode 3 footage released by Valve.
By: Kyle Orland
Here at Ars, we're intimately familiar with data leaks surrounding Valve's games, hardware, and the workings of Steam itself. But nothing could have prepared us for this weekend's "terarelease" encompassing more than 12TB of content related to seemingly every title available on Steam between 2003 to 2013.…
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This brilliant example of game design prowess is technically eligible for awards show consideration
14 pts The relatively recent rise of AI-assisted coding tools and the whole concept of "vibe coding" have effectively upended entire software development workflows. While these tools have been available to novice coders willing to put in the work to set them up, those with little to no coding experience could still be…
