Kyle Orland

My @bossfightbooks.bsky.social book on Minesweeper covers a game that was pre-installed on 4 billion Windows computers but has had very little previous scholarly attention. bossfightbooks.com/products/min...

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

Funniest thing about this is that the AI would probably not need the human for the animal clicking task

Back in the day I thought it was a big deal when I had to start checking email once a day rather than once a week

OK but how'd he do in the electoral college?

Surprisingly have not stumbled anything like this in 2026. I think AI hype has finally killed the blockchain gaming hype

A truly amazing trailer

I think Trump surviving the Access Hollywood tape convinced the media at large that no one cares about this stuff vis a vis Trump

On Bioware's closure, and how its legacy lives on in games they inspired. feat. @adashtra.bsky.social @alyssamerc.bsky.social @osamadorias.bsky.social @heartimecia.bsky.social ( & thanks to @silvarils.bsky.social) www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

The Cheesecake Factory “controversy” is nice because it’s a rerun of the exact kind of stupid shit we had to sit through every day of the Obama administration. Now Zoomers don’t have to feel left out of having their own Obama “controversy” to reference.

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

And I say wholeheartedly “it’s about time!”

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

“Long ago… in the distant future” is sending me

At some point we have to align election results with legislative results (at least in the case of trifectas) and that means getting rid of the filibuster

In my experience vibe coding some games on Meta's platform, I'd say this is mostly accurate, but also that the slot machine "paid out" and interpreted my prompts correctly way more than I expected arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

"the baby computer" as a derogatory term for a traditional console definitely has legs

For our next big story, @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social talks to Simogo about one of 2024's best games. (Available now for paid subscribers, next week for all.)

~1M discs a year across all of Xbox in the US really puts into perspective just how much digital has taken over

Wake up, hun, maximum quality wallpaper-eating Toad just dropped

What video game folks want to do this with me for the Game Awards?

This would be like me saying I had never heard of Mass Effect until hearing about the closure of BioWare yesterday

A Democrat winning the Montana house race would be a huge help in the all-important "how much of a geographical House map looks blue" metric

To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.

Another useful thing about him is he has no charisma and can not sell all this the way Trump can

In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare. We've made that feature available online following reports of the studio's impending closure. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

"oh someone else will buy bioware or fund new studios or get the IP" WITH WHOSE MONEY

I strongly believe that video game criticism is itself a loving act of games preservation, something increasingly important as both the people making games and the people covering games get tossed aside

This post sounds like an exaggeration but then you watch the ad and, yup, that's really the point of it

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

When I was 15 I would sit with Dragon Age: Origins and save before every big dialogue. I would replay them over and over and physically write out the trees. I didn’t know at that point that writing or narrative design was even a job I could have. They had such an enormous impact as a studio.

the video game industry was a 40 year long sociological experiment conducted by Harvard University. the study is now complete. thank you for your time