SleepyEgg

Hello Opposable Thumbs readers.

I'm Kyle Orland, and by now you've probably heard that I'll be taking over Ars Technica's gaming section from the storied Ben Kuchera. Ben has left some incredibly big shoes to fill, and I hope I'll live up to his legacy of providing exemplary gaming coverage of the kind you can't find elsewhere.

A little bit on my background: I've been writing about games professionally since I started a Mario fansite called "Super Mario Bros. HQ" in 1997 at the age of 14 (the site still stands, growing moldier by the day, at http://www.smbhq.com). I've got degrees in journalism and computer science from the University of Maryland class of 2004 (go Terps!) and, in 2006, I quit a job doing HTML code-monkey work for NPR's internal website to write about video games full time as a freelancer.