It’s Time to Give Up on the Charade of U.S. Patent Protection: Most Patents are Now Officially Invalid under American Axle

Last week, the Supreme Court refused certiorari in yet another patent eligibility appeal. I’ve lost count as to how many times the Court has refused to provide clarity to the fundamental question of patent eligibility since it last muddied the waters in Alice back in 2014. I stopped counting several years ago, when the number…

Walmart makes InHome direct-to-fridge deliveries an optional perk of Walmart Plus

Walmart’s InHome delivery costs $138 annually with Plus. | Image: Walmart Walmart is making its InHome delivery service available to Walmart Plus subscribers for an extra $7 per month or $40 per year. The service, which brings groceries and other goods from your local Walmart to the inside of your home, was previously available as…

The Division mobile game gets a name and a trailer

Ubisoft has officially announced The Division Resurgence, a free-to-play mobile game that it hinted was in the works last year. The company says it’ll be an open-world, third-person RPG shooter like the mainline games, with single-player and co-op modes that let players face off against the environment in story missions and other “PvE activities.” Resurgence…

Excerpt: How the designers of GoldenEye 007 made use of “Anti-Game Design”

In this excerpt from her upcoming book, writer and historian Alyse Knorr talks about some of the design decisions that made Goldeneye 007 stand out from other ’90s first-person shooters, and why that design endures to this day. The book is currently looking for backers on Kickstarter. When [game designer David] Doak first joined the…