A patent granted to Activision outlines a new matchmaking system that would pair players together in order to encourage…
With just under three weeks before the launch of No Man’s Sky—which I personally delayed back in May—a new potential…
The company that sued Nintendo three years ago has just had their then-disputed patents snatched up by the House of…
It's the kind of run Nintendo's been on lately, that even the company's one piece of good news - the growing success of…
After listening to this week's episode of This American Life on software patents, I was curious to investigate patents…
A Texas intellectual property firm has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Wizards of the Coast-but,…
OK. My mind is blown. Sony published a patent this week for a video game controller that heats up or cools down as…
The British rock band Rocksmith aren't the only ones suing Ubisoft over the French publisher's guitar game Rocksmith.…
Patent applications let people dream big. Someone out there's got a killer idea for the Litter Box of the Future or…
Xbox 3, Xbox 720, NextBox… whatever you call it, lots of rumors are being floated about Microsoft's next home console.…
Back in 2010, Nintendo filed a patent application for something called a "massively single-playing online game,"…
Last year, a patent was uncovered for a Wii football. It had been designed by Nintendo, and yet, it was stupid. Well,…
Sony has patented a new form of trial or demo for video games that, rather than presenting us with a small piece of a…
Google applied for a patent earlier this year called "Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on…
A newly published patent from Sony Computer Entertainment, which looks a lot like the company's PlayStation 3 motion…
Your PlayStation 3 may become a reasonably priced, earthbound Satellite of Love, if Sony Computer Entertainment…
Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office assigned the maker of the Xbox 360 and publisher of Gears of…
The last time we unearthed a big new Nintendo patent, we found hints of a video game paradigm shift. This time,…
My single biggest problem with the PS3? The loss of backwards compatibility. It's a gaping hole in the system's feature…
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