Nintendo Says Mods Don't Count as 'Prior Art' as They're Not Full Games, Attempting to Sway Judge in Palworld Lawsuit

Writing in Games Fray, which first reported the development, games industry reporter and legal analyst Florian Mueller ...
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Nintendo Argues Mods Do Not Count As Prior Art And Shouldn’t Be Used To Upend ‘Pokémon’ Patent Infringement Claims Against ‘Palworld’

Nintendo argue the mods Pocketpair cite as evidence others created their patented game mechanics before them shouldn't be ...
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Palworld dev says a Dark Souls 3 mod invalidates Nintendo's Pokeball patent, Nintendo says mods don't count as real games, and an expert worries prior art precedents could see ...

Pokemon "This Nintendo patent was apparently granted without a patent examiner looking at a single game": IP expert says concerns "hundreds of games" could be affected by Pokemon summoning patent ...
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Elden Ring Nightreign's Seamless co-op mod now allows up to 6 players, but won't add any more as 'the game just becomes comically easy'

RPG Elden Ring Nightreign finds a new way to victimise players as Nightfarers accidentally fight 2 bosses at once: 'They were convinced I was just being dumb' RPG FromSoftware scrambles for content to ...
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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Mod Lets Players Roll Back Controversial Patch 1.5 Changes

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...
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Nintendo Argues Game Mods Aren't "Prior Art" In Palworld Lawsuit

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nintendo's legal battle against Palworld developer Pocketpair has intensified, as the Japanese game-making company alleges in part of its ongoing ...
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At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games

"The biggest user-facing change in this update brings most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content to Garry's Mod by default, with gracious permission from Valve," wrote Rubat, ...
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Stardew Valley Voice Acting Mod Reveals Full Cast

Gabriel has been playing games since he was a kid. Loves most RPG games, platformers, and innovative indie games, and can talk for hours about how the first Fallout is the greatest game ever. He ...
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New Counter-Strike 2 cases are free to open, but keeping skins will cost you – and the FPS community isn't thrilled: "Valve will literally reinvent the gambling industry ...

FPS Games Valve marches over to its desk to remove a Counter-Strike 2 map after just 2 days, seemingly over a "gamer word" hidden in a file FPS Games "If I had stayed with Valve, I would have been ...