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Sony Patent Aims To Add New Challenges To Emulated Classics

In Real Life

7 years ago

Sony Patent Aims To Add New Challenges To Emulated Classics

Mike Fahey

5

In Real Life

7 years ago

Is This A New PlayStation Move?

András Neltz

1

GameStick Falls Off Kickstater Briefly Over IP Issues

Mobile

8 years ago

GameStick Falls Off Kickstater Briefly Over IP Issues

Alex Kidman

1

You’d imagine that developing a new console system could well be a minefield of intellectual property related issues surrounding patents, design and the like. Recent Kickstarter project and Android-based tiny console GameStick overnight got pulled for the oddest of reasons.

Sony Patent Could Stop You From Playing Used Games

PlayStation

8 years ago

Sony Patent Could Stop You From Playing Used Games

Owen Good

73

This Kinect Patent Is Terrifying, Wants To Charge You For License Violation

Xbox

8 years ago

This Kinect Patent Is Terrifying, Wants To Charge You For License Violation

Luke Plunkett

61

A patent filed by Microsoft last year, but only made public last week, wants to turn your Xbox 360’s Kinect into an instrument via which large companies can monitor your media usage and, if you’re found to be in violation of something, charge you for it.

PlayStation

8 years ago

Sony Wants Your PlayStation To Automatically Know Who You Are

Luke Plunkett

7

Xbox

8 years ago

The Next Xbox Could Transform Your Living Room Into One Massive 3D Display

Mike Fahey

21

Sony Wants To Turn Commercials Into Video Games

PlayStation

8 years ago

Sony Wants To Turn Commercials Into Video Games

Luke Plunkett

7

A Sony patent called “System for converting television commercials into interactive networked video games” is trying to do…well, exactly what its title says it’s trying to do.