Is a crappy situation but patents don't enable the patent holder to make a product, after all you can make the product without claiming a patent. Instead they stop people who are not the patent holder from making that product.
So if we put on our tinfoil hats its likely that some "just in case" patents are really just stopping their competition from heading in that direction.
This needs to be killed as we have prior art (Emulators, Braid, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, heaps of racing games, etc).
If their only significant addition is "we a have a button for it" then we need to ask if a button qualifies as "inventive" in 2024?
Edit:
Announcer: Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history? At the MERE PUSH of a SINGLE BUTTON! The beeyootiful shiny button! The jolly candy-like button! Will he hold out, folks? CAN he hold out?
I would like to play a reimagining with only the two factions and not two many unit types. If they updated with modern QoL but kept the actual mechanics simple it would make a nice casual game.
But what do I know, I think that Anno on Wii is the best Anno.
I doubt they want comparisons to Leisure Suit Larry.
I this is the most effective search I could find:
https://www.google.com/search?q="Mozilla's+Firefox+Send"
Not great for a product that is not Mozilla's Firefox Send!
They have a crazy history of buying and selling companies and IPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA#History
When they have good times they buy what they can, then when they hit hard times it all ends up offered in a fire sale.
To add to the confusion Atari announced earlier this year that they would restore the Infogrames brand as a publishing label.
Now we get stuff like this :
I guess that would do it.
At home I’ve got a pihole
How is the pihole from a maintenance perspective?
I have my family using adguard DNS on our mobile devices and it does a great job of killing ads in the mobile games my son plays (and browsers of course).
I unfortunately can’t run adblockers at my job.
Ouch! We have deployed ad blockers on all supported bowsers as a matter of policy to meet our security goals.
I bought this skittles set for the kids to have a competition at a kids birthday party. The pins and ball are reasonable quality but the staples holding the box together fell apart the second we tried to pack it away.
I haven't seen any more than the single tile on my xbox home screen.
I wonder if its regional or just that my ad blockers are working.
It would be fine if they just had a single election like everywhere else but they have their primaries too and seem to start campaigning around half way through the term. So there is some degree of campaigning going on around half the time.
A great example, immersion held a patent and blocked the competition.
However if Sony (or anyone else) had developed and released a product (or even published a design) using the same technical implementation before 1996 then that would have established prior art and no one would be able to patent it.