Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo could've been planning its Pocketpair lawsuit before Palworld even released: 'If you know who you're going to go sue, you can draft claims to target them'
News Nintendo had filed amendments for its patents in the run-up to Palworld's launch.
Videogame patent lawyer says Nintendo is taking a risk with its Palworld lawsuit: 'They've exposed themselves in a big way'
News "If you're too broad, then you've given them a pathway to make the patent go away."
A videogame patent lawyer breaks down Nintendo's risky Palworld lawsuit: 'It definitely feels like a punishment'
patent monsters A crash course in videogame patent law and the legal minefield Nintendo's navigating by suing Pocketpair.
Satisfactory players achieve absurd early-game speeds by building more ziplines to zipline on while ziplining
News I live up here now.
If history can tell us anything about the Palworld patent lawsuit, it's that Nintendo's out for blood
IT'S-A BLEAK That's not a lawsuit. That's a declaration of war.
The next Black Mirror season brings Paul Giamatti, Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, and a sequel to USS Callister
News In 2025, phones will once again be too much.
Is Nintendo suing the Palworld devs over a patent on throwing Poké Balls?
News Opening the Pal Sphere-shaped Pandora's box of patent filings.
In a rare triumph for videogame discourse, God of War Ragnarok will have a setting to reduce puzzle hints on PC
News Mimir can buy the game if he wants to play so badly.
Square Enix confirms lower-than-expected Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 sales in newly public financial report: 'Profits unfortunately did not meet our expectations'
News "We did not manage our title portfolio across the company as well as we could have."
If Space Marine 2 left you with a 40K craving, Humble Bundle's selling 24 Space Marine books for $18
News An assortment of Astartes.
In this upcoming Netflix documentary, parents discover their son's other life in World of Warcraft after he died of a degenerative muscular disease
News Before his death, Mats Steen spent tens of thousands of hours as the dashing rogue, Ibelin.
Former Bungie lawyer says the studio's 'management failure' led to Sony 'forcing them to get their heads out of their asses'
News "It appears that Sony's inflicting some discipline on my former colleagues."
Google results insist a Bugsnax sequel is coming out next month, but there's one small problem: Its devs aren't making one
News "We are not working on a Bugsnax sequel right now and I need AI bs to stop telling kids we are."
'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out of early disaster
News Publisher woes almost doomed Valve from the start.
The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is almost certainly a violation of international humanitarian law
News You'll want to make sure your battlefield is well ventilated.
Payday 3's game director is stepping down after a hard first year for the heist game sequel
News Starbreeze gets another leadership shakeup following its CEO departure back in March.
Helldivers 2 creative director says it's a better, sillier world when physics bugs can kill players for jumping past the wrong lamppost: 'Realism can suck it'
News Watch your step.
Sonic Team director dashes hopes for a standalone Chao Garden: 'We can't just break it off and make it a thing'
News Couldn't you, though?
Jagex announces official Old School Runescape private servers, because the grind can always get grindier
News Someday, somewhere, we'll all be ironmen.
Streamers captured Concord's final moments as the servers went offline: 'What a huge f***ing honor'
News "Something went wrong."
Baldur's Gate 3 players are having their hearts thoroughly wrenched by the new evil endings to their companion romances: 'I'll never emotionally recover from this'
News Sometimes love can be messy.
Automatons beware: The next major Helldivers 2 patch will overhaul armor penetration later this month
News Arrowhead's combat rebalancing aims to make enemy armor less miserable to fight.
