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Tech News Weekly (Audio)Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price - Amazon & TikTok, Alexa+, Claude & OpenAI
Amazon makes a bid for TikTok in the US. What Amazon's new Alexa+ can and cannot do. Nintendo officially unveils the Switch 2 console. And OpenAI & Anthropic are taking on the education market.
Abrar Al-Heet of CNET joins Mikah Sargent this week! Abrar talks about Amazon making a bid to purchase TikTok in the US as Bytedance scrambles to divest ownership of the social media app.
Mikah talks about Amazon's Alexa+ and some of the features that the service has yet to include following its launch.
Kyle Orland of Ars Technica joins the show to talk about Nintendo's new...2025-04-0454 minTech News Weekly (Video)Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price - Amazon & TikTok, Alexa+, Claude & OpenAI
Amazon makes a bid for TikTok in the US. What Amazon's new Alexa+ can and cannot do. Nintendo officially unveils the Switch 2 console. And OpenAI & Anthropic are taking on the education market.
Abrar Al-Heet of CNET joins Mikah Sargent this week! Abrar talks about Amazon making a bid to purchase TikTok in the US as Bytedance scrambles to divest ownership of the social media app.
Mikah talks about Amazon's Alexa+ and some of the features that the service has yet to include following its launch.
Kyle Orland of Ars Technica joins the show to talk about Nintendo's new...2025-04-0454 minTotal Mikah (Audio)Tech News Weekly 381: Nintendo Switch 2's Higher Price
Amazon makes a bid for TikTok in the US. What Amazon's new Alexa+ can and cannot do. Nintendo officially unveils the Switch 2 console. And OpenAI & Anthropic are taking on the education market.
Abrar Al-Heet of CNET joins Mikah Sargent this week! Abrar talks about Amazon making a bid to purchase TikTok in the US as Bytedance scrambles to divest ownership of the social media app.
Mikah talks about Amazon's Alexa+ and some of the features that the service has yet to include following its launch.
Kyle Orland of Ars Technica joins the show to talk about Nintendo's new...2025-04-0454 min
Gamertag RadioGTR Retro - The Good & Bad of Gaming Journalism RoundtableThis week on GTR Retro, we are going back to 2009, the crew recorded a roundtable discussion with Dan 'Shoe' Hsu and Kyle Orland about the highs and lows of gaming journalism. It was a fantastic roundtable!
This was released on July 27, 2009.
Store: store.gamertagradio.com. Send us questions - fanmail@gamertagradio.com | Speakpipe.com/gamertagradio or 786-273-7GTR. Join our Discord - https://discord.gg/gtr chat with other GTR community member.2025-03-2745 min
Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!"A Paragraph Signing" Incremental Learning ; Making Science Fiction WorldsLydia joins the clubhouse for her first regular episode as a host (it's calendar math)! The clubhouse discusses the release of Civilization VII and how it is taking up all of Stephen's time. Lydia brings to the table the question of how she can learn more games, and how tutorials don't work for her. Stephen regrets not being able to fully develop the world which is the setting for his five-minute student film.Civ VIICivilization VIISwitch 2Switch 2 mouse control - Kyle Orland, Ars Technica0:15:01Incremental Learning Lydia talks about her suc...2025-03-2000 min
INFLUENCE42 How "Minesweeper" Changed the Internet As We Know It (w/ Kyle Orland)Hi friends! Excited to share this interview from my *other* show, Colette & Matt Have Entered the Chat, where we cover video games and their communities. This one is about the extraordinary legacy of "Minesweeper," which changed the Internet in more ways than you might think. Enjoy!-Original show notes from March 24, 2023-Get the full episode here (or in your favorite pod app): https://haveenteredthechat.com/episodes/100-minesweeper-kyle-orland-diablo-4When "Minesweeper" and "Solitaire" were first bundled with Microsoft's Windows operating system in the early '90...2025-03-051h 05
New Books in Game StudiesKyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)If you had some free time and a Windows PC in the 1990s, your mouse probably crawled its way to Minesweeper, an exciting watch-where-you-click puzzle game with a ticking clock and a ton of “just one more game” replayability. Originally sold as part of a “big box” bundle of simple games, Minesweeper became a cornerstone of the Windows experience when it was pre-installed with every copy of Windows 3.1 and decades of subsequent OS updates. Alongside fellow Windows gaming staple Solitaire, Minesweeper wound up on more devices than nearly any other video game in history. Sweeping through a minefield of explosive...2025-03-0420 min
New Books in Popular CultureKyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)If you had some free time and a Windows PC in the 1990s, your mouse probably crawled its way to Minesweeper, an exciting watch-where-you-click puzzle game with a ticking clock and a ton of “just one more game” replayability. Originally sold as part of a “big box” bundle of simple games, Minesweeper became a cornerstone of the Windows experience when it was pre-installed with every copy of Windows 3.1 and decades of subsequent OS updates. Alongside fellow Windows gaming staple Solitaire, Minesweeper wound up on more devices than nearly any other video game in history. Sweeping through a minefield of explosive...2025-03-0420 min
New Books in HistoryKyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)If you had some free time and a Windows PC in the 1990s, your mouse probably crawled its way to Minesweeper, an exciting watch-where-you-click puzzle game with a ticking clock and a ton of “just one more game” replayability. Originally sold as part of a “big box” bundle of simple games, Minesweeper became a cornerstone of the Windows experience when it was pre-installed with every copy of Windows 3.1 and decades of subsequent OS updates. Alongside fellow Windows gaming staple Solitaire, Minesweeper wound up on more devices than nearly any other video game in history. Sweeping through a minefield of explosive...2025-03-0420 min
New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyKyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)If you had some free time and a Windows PC in the 1990s, your mouse probably crawled its way to Minesweeper, an exciting watch-where-you-click puzzle game with a ticking clock and a ton of “just one more game” replayability. Originally sold as part of a “big box” bundle of simple games, Minesweeper became a cornerstone of the Windows experience when it was pre-installed with every copy of Windows 3.1 and decades of subsequent OS updates. Alongside fellow Windows gaming staple Solitaire, Minesweeper wound up on more devices than nearly any other video game in history. Sweeping through a minefield of explosive...2025-03-0420 min
The ScoopPlayStation Exclusive Playable On Xbox?! - UK Video Game Podcast
The show where the Ice Cream Team go through all the geeky "need to know" video game news from around the globe every weekday from 10am UK Time, live over on Twitch.tv/IceCream.
Title: Lack of PS5 Pro shortages means some scalpers are re-selling at a loss
Website: VGC
Author: Chris Scullion
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/lack-of-ps5-pro-shortages-means-some-scalpers-are-re-selling-at-a-loss/
Title: Nintendo confirms Switch 2 will play original Switch games
Website: Ars Technica
Author: Kyle Orland
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/nintendo-confirms-switch-2-will-play-original-switch-games/
Title: The Mass Effect TV series is now ‘officially in development’, report says
Website: VGC
Author: Chris Scullion
http...2024-11-081h 30
KQED's ForumSynthesized Voices Just Got More RealisticWhen ChatGPT launched advanced voice mode last month – inserting accents and ‘umms’, even taking breaths – some users called it surreal. Humans have been trying to make synthesized voices sound more natural for nearly a century. We talk about why and look at the history and evolution of synthesized voices, from robots of film like HAL and C3PO to digital assistants like Alexa.Guests:Kyle Orland, senior gaming editor, Ars TechnicaSarah A Bell, associate professor of digital media, Michigan Technological University; author, “Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Ma...2024-10-1857 min
Ultimate Cleveland Sports ShowAre the Cleveland Cavaliers feeling extreme pressure to beat the Orland Magic in Round One?The Cleveland Browns started their voluntary workout portion of the offseason on Monday and Deshaun Watson was one of first players to show up.
How big is it to have QB1 in the building for these few days?
JOK had an incredible 2023 season, and is due for a massive pay raise in 2024. Linebacker is a position the Browns don't typically pay big money for, but will they make an exception for their Pro Bowl LB?
The Cleveland Cavaliers are under immense pressure to win a playoff series this season to prove the team is making progress in the right direction...2024-04-161h 00
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Codex History of Video Games with Mike Coletta and Tyler OstbyEpisode 262 - Minesweeper with Kyle OrlandMike and Tyler talk to Gaming Editor at Ars Technica and author of the Boss Fight Book Minesweeper, Kyle Orland! They discuss the origins of Minesweeper at Microsoft and the games surprising competitive scene. The theme music is by RoccoW. The logo was created by Dani Dodge.2023-10-2347 min
RetronautsMinesweeper + SharewareBook editors Jeremy Parish and Jared Petty talk to book authors Kyle Orland and Richard Moss about their books about the history of landmark computer games: "Minesweeper" by Boss Fight Books and "Shareware Heroes," respectively.2023-06-121h 43
MS-DOS CLUBMS-DOS CLUB – Vol 36 - Quake con Paul Urkijo, The Oregon Trail, novedades de ExoDOS y EMBMMS-DOS CLUB – Vol 36 – Quake con Paul Urkijo, The Oregon Trail, novedades de ExoDOS y EMBM.
El listado del disquete VOL 36 es:
Presentación: 00:03:33
Efemérides de cine de 1996: 00:10:56
Juegos – Quake: 00:35:45
Publicicdad: 01:04:51
Crónicas Lozanas: 01:47:07
El MS-DOS Hoy: 01:58:08
Ese loco Hardware – EMBM: 02:48:02
Audios de oyentes: 03:11:05
The Oregon Trail: Se adjuntará como Floppy.
Aunque este no sea un podcast que hable de cine nos vamos a tomar la libertad de hablar un poco de películas de los 90 porque contamos con la participación de excepción de Paul Urkijo, director de las películas Errementari e Irati.
Así que vamos a aprovechar que te...2023-05-313h 16
Video Game History HourEp. 110: MinesweeperKyle Orland, author of the new Boss Fight Books’ Minesweeper, joins the show to talk about one of the most prolific 90’s games by the same name. In this episode: the Minesweeper generation, how Bill Gates got addicted to it, the ultimate time waster, it was a mouse tutorial, Microsoft’s internal conflicts, the moral panic around games like Minesweeper, and the clock is ticking.
See more from Kyle Orland:
Twitter: @KyleOrl
Sr. Gaming Editor, Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/author/kyle-orland/
Book: https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
...2023-05-241h 04
"Da" PodcastEp.327 Kyle OrlandOn this week’s episode of “Da” Podcast, Steve is joined by the senior gaming editor at Ars Technica Kyle Orland as we talk about, getting into video games, working at Ars Technica, writing Boss Fight Books Minesweeper, favourite video games, why a book on Minesweeper, video games becoming mainstream, DOS vs Windows, learning to use a mouse, playing games on the PC, the first & top puzzle games, score chasing, cheating & finding loop holes, the minesweeper community, rogue like games, the early stigma surrounding video games, gaming addiction, Magic: The Gathering, interviews for the book, how much Minesweeper has made & the ac...2023-05-181h 01
Colette & Matt Have Entered the Chat100 How 'Minesweeper' Made Microsoft a Gaming Company (w/ Kyle Orland)When "Minesweeper" and "Solitaire" were first bundled with Microsoft's Windows operating system in the early '90s, they introduced millions of people to PC gaming, many of whom had never used a mouse before. "Minesweeper" in particular became a favorite addiction of many Microsoft programmers, including Bill Gates.Kyle Orland, senior gaming editor at Ars Technica, has written an upcoming book about the legacy of the grey, tiled Roguelike that paved the way for a more robust ecosystem of PC games and eventually the Xbox brand we know today. The ubiquity of these casual pack-in games rivaled...2023-03-241h 55
The Sunday ScrollGita Jackson, Kyle Orland, & Paul TamayoThe premiere of The Sunday Scroll finds host John Warren catching you up with the week's news in games and entertainment and having enlightening conversations with some of his favorite colleagues in the industry:Gita Jackson (starts from 2:03.0) discusses Twitter's unraveling, the pitfalls of reviewing Hogwarts Legacy, and Daisy Jones & The SixKyle Orland (starts from 1:10:37.0) talks about his new book Minesweeper coming soon from Boss Fight BooksPaul Tamayo (starts from 1:47:48.0) joins John to discuss Wayfinder, the new season of F1, and the beauty of creating offline rituals for yourselfAlso mentioned in this episode:Octopath...2023-03-122h 39
The ScoopDid The UK Government Announce A New Switch Successor?! - UK Video Game PodcastThe show where the Ice Cream Team go through all the geeky "need to know" video game news from around the globe every weekday from 10am UK Time, live over on Twitch.tv/IceCreamUploads.
Title: Microsoft and Nintendo sign "binding 10-year agreement" for Call of Duty
Website: Eurogamer
Author: Tom Phillips
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-and-nintendo-sign-binding-10-year-agreement-for-call-of-duty
Title: Sony Reportedly Acquires New Studio Ballistic Moon
Website: GAMERANT
Author: MIGUEL LUIS LLADO
https://gamerant.com/sony-acquires-ballistic-moon/
Title: Did the UK government just accidentally leak Nintendo’s Switch successor?
Website: ARS Technica
Author: KYLE ORLAND
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/is-the-uk-government-hiding-information-about-nintendos-next-console/
Title: Bungie Wi...2023-02-211h 09
Fallin‘ Thru PlotholesEpisode 15: The rights to Ms. Pac-Man are a messIn this episode, Alex and Michael discuss the mess behind the royalty rights to Ms. Pac-Man, and talk about companies making shady deals, weird back-stabbery, and the weirdness that is the character Crazy Otto.
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Ars Technica - AIRSLA12/2/2021 Ars Technica Episode 1Episode Notes
Our first article is by Jon Brodkin, published on August 17th, 2021.
iPhone keyboard for blind to shut down as maker cites Apple “abuse” of developers.
Our second article is by Meagan Shelley, published on August 29th, 2021.
How game-makers are catering to disabled players
Our third and final article is by Kyle Orland, published on October 29th, 2021.
John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans
This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2021-12-0325 min
a Grand ReflectionConstellation: CreativityWhat is creativity? Who has it? How do we harness it? Why should we create in the first place? Hopefully, I'll be able to answer all this and more by the end of this thing. Listen and find out.Sources:The Act of Creation - Arthur KoestlerBig Magic - Elizabeth GilbertThe Artisan Soul - Erwin McManusArt & Fear - David Bayles, Ted OrlandArcs and Circles - Marc Peter Keane (out 11/16/21)Culture Care - Makoto Fujimura2021-09-231h 10
Nerd BitsAn ALWAYS-ON iPhone!!!In today’s episode of the Nerd Bits we will be discussing a rumored “always-on” mode for the iPhone 13, Apple dropping to third in global smartphone market share, a rumored redesigned MacBook Pro, Amazon convincing Apple to kick app out of the App Store, and a 1.56 million dollar Super Mario sale.Works CitedAdorno, José. “Gurman: IPhone 13 Could Feature an Apple Watch-like Always-on Mode.” 9to5Mac, 18 July 2021, 9to5mac.com/2021/07/18/gurman-iphone-13-apple-watch-always-on/. Accessed 18 July 2021.Barrabi, Thomas. “Apple Drops to Third in Global Smartphone Market Share, Research Firm Says.” FOXBusiness, 16 July 2021, www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apple-drops-third-global-smartphone-market-share. Accessed 18 July 2021.Fathi, Sami. “Gurman: Redesigned MacBook Pros to L...2021-07-1911 min
Some Patches Required$70 Games, Appropriate Compensation, and the Legendary Lost Lozenge of HadesHere at SPR, we like to think that highlighting serious topics within the games industry doesn't require emulating the tone of a particularly boring episode of "Mr. Wizard's World." If you're not 150 years old (or Aaron), that means we try to balance research-based discussions with our unique brand of insanity.If you need proof, look no further than this episode. We inexplicably start out with a guest appearance by the lord of the underworld before transitioning to a conversation about how much the Internet hates the perceived design tweaks Aloy received for Horizon Forbidden West. Then, we...2021-06-041h 13