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A new trademark filing by Bethesda Softworks suggests the possibility that the company is working on developing a TV series based on its Fallout RPG franchise. In a posting on The Vault, writer Conor Murton noticed the filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which seeks a trademark... More

We’re not new to the war on piracy and used games, but it appears Sony is taking a new step for prevention. A Neogaf user found a patent application for an “Electronic Content Processing System.” Just what would this system do? It would tie game discs to specific user accounts and/or... More

Sony patented a version of its Move controller recently that will apparently heat up and cool down depending on what's happening in the game. It's certainly... interesting. The first thing that comes to my mind is hand sweating, but it does cool down, so maybe that prevents that. Whatever you... More

A recently uncovered Microsoft patent shows off projection technology that displays video on more than just your television. The patent shows a player with no controller in their hand playing some kind of shooter against miniature antagonists. There is presumably a Kinect and some kind of projection... More

A U.S. district court judge has dismissed a case brought against Nintendo by Copper Innovations Group which claimed the Wii console and controllers infringed upon one of its patents. After looking over the case, Judge David Cercone of the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh said there was no need for a... More

A Sony patent has appeared online showing a advertising method that will interrupt your game in the most invasive way possible. The patent shows illustrations of a car racing against other cars, some warning lights (or loud speaker blaring, I'm not entirely sure), and then the game pauses and shows... More

Microsoft may have a controller in the works that can recognize the person holding it. A recently discovered patent shows an Xbox 360 controller that can recognize a player, "using a hand-pressure signature." If it can remember who you are, then it may have some memory built into it. Microsoft... More

A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by IA Labs CA against Nintendo, which claimed that the company's Wii Balance Board accessory infringed on its patent. “Nintendo has a passionate tradition of developing innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights... More

Zynga is being sued, but not for the reasons you may have assumed. Zynga has been accused in the past of liberally borrowing ideas from other developers, but this lawsuit is over the use of patents, and deal with the inner workings and behind the scenes programming of Zynga's games. Personalized... More

Nintendo's always had its own peculiar way of handling online gaming, and a recent patent application drives the point home. In a filing with the US patent office, Nintendo outlined its claim on what the company calls a "massively single-playing online game." While that description sounds... More

It looks like Nintendo isn't satisfied with the runaway success of the Vitality Sensor, WiiSpeak, Wii Zapper, e-Reader, Power Glove, Game Boy Printer, DK Bongos, Roll & Rocker, and Power Pad. They need yet another accessory of questionable necessity and function, so back in 2009 they filed a... More

Korean tech company LG won an injunction from a Dutch judge in a patent lawsuit, resulting in thousands of PlayStation 3 consoles being impounded in Holland. The injunction, issued last week, has European customs police seizing PS3s as they are imported into the Netherlands, which is the main point through... More

Regardless of how you look at it, companies are adopting 3D technology faster than consumers probably ever will. Sony has been pretty big on the whole 3D thing and now Apple is next in line as the company has been awarded a U.S. patent for a 3D display system. The display will allow multiple viewers... More

More news is coming out about the PSP2, although Sony is the only one not saying a word about the device yet. A patent application from the company gives even more credence to the rumor that the handheld will have a touch pad on the back of the unit. The application, uncovered by akihabaranews , is for... More

Last week a patent was unearthed that told of a device that could read the body motions of its players and was powerful enough to read lips, sign language, and numerous joints on the body to produce gameplay like we've never seen it before. Kinect is not that device. A Microsoft representative has... More

A patent filed by Microsoft reveals new features for its Kinect motion-sensing peripheral, including the ability to detect American Sign Language. The patent is from last year, and claims the device can not only interpret ASL into phrases that could be recognized and then turned into voice chat on the... More

IA Labs, a Maryland-based company also known as Powergrid Fitness, is the latest to sue Nintendo for alleged patent infringement. The company claims that basically any tech used in the Wii and its attending peripherals violates two of IA's patents. According to Gamasutra , IA Labs filed the lawsuit... More

The Federal Court of Appeals today reversed a jury decision from 2008 that found that a trio of Nintendo’s controllers violated a patent held by Anascape Ltd. In that original decision, a jury determined Wii’s remote and nunchuk didn’t violate that patent, though the Wii’s classic... More

Microsoft has a patent pending with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for an automated system that would allow players to download DLC or downloadable games if they're sent an invite by a friend who already owns that content. Dubbed ATDDC (Automated Direct Transaction and Deliver System for... More

Would you entertain the idea of ditching your ever-growing pile of gamepads in favor of one universal controller that works with all your consoles? If Sony moves forward on a patent the company recently filed, you may soon have the option. Like the Logitech Harmony 1100 universal remote, Sony's proposed... More