Kyle Orland Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

High Speed High Roller

Type the term “gaming” into an internet search engine, and the pages you’ll see will fall into one of two camps. The first ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorDecember 12, 2006

The Rest of the Story

So You Want To Make A Fansite

Everyone is the world’s foremost expert on something. This one fact is the cornerstone of much of the internet. How else do you ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorNovember 14, 2006

Op-Ed

Serious Games Summit 2006

Anyone who’s ever learned something about city planning from SimCity. Anyone who’s had their views of war shaped by a military game. Anyone ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2006

Good to be Bad

Sympathy for the Devil

“Know thy enemy, know thyself, know victory.” As tactical advice, Sun Tzu’s famous maxim applies to a majority of videogames. Knowing that Piston ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorOctober 31, 2006

With A Thousand Avatars

Back Story

I was in the third grade when I created my first and last videogame fan fiction. It plumbed the hidden motivations of the ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorOctober 10, 2006

Escape from E3

Recipe for Disaster

Imagine a rock concert. The loudest rock concert you’ve ever been to. Make it a little louder, just for good measure. Throw it ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorMay 23, 2006

Groovy Games

Geek on Your Sleeve

Wait long enough, and everything comes back in style. It’s true in fashion. It’s true in videogames. So, why shouldn’t it be true ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorFebruary 21, 2006

Love the One You're With

Infinite Princesses

A lot is made these days about the new social revolution in videogames. The conventional wisdom goes something like this: Games used to ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorFebruary 14, 2006

Whatever Happened To...

Lost Legends

Mario. Zelda. Donkey Kong. The holy trinity of Nintendo franchises has appeared in about a billion games that have sold a gazillion combined ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorSeptember 27, 2005

It's Your Game

Dance with Intensity

I was almost a world-famous game designer. Well, world famous might be a bit of a stretch. “Certain-parts-of-the-Internet” famous might be more accurate. ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorAugust 2, 2005

Who's Playing

A Horse of a Different Color

Heather Dubé knows horse racing inside and out. In her short career she has done it all: picking out sires and dams to ...

By Kyle Orland Legacy AuthorJuly 26, 2005

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