Nintendo has a long history of turning wild ideas into hardware, but some of its patents are so outlandish they sound like urban legends. From inflatable saddles to sanity meters and Pokémon that ...

The US Patent Office has revoked a Nintendo patent that previously gave the Big N IP ownership over the concept of summoning a character to fight in battle (ala Pokemon). After a re-examination by the ...

A new wrinkle has come up for Nintendo’s patents which could affect the group’s latest efforts to claim ownership of game mechanics in which a player summons another character in battle. Relatively ...

Nintendo's ongoing patent lawsuit case against Palworld developers Pocketpair has hit a surprising speedbump, though the battle is far from over. For those unaware, Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

There are tons of monster-catching games, Cassette Beasts, Digimon, Monster Sanctuary, and more, so why did Nintendo single ...

The USPTO's director personally ordered the review. Those ingredients suggest widespread blowback may be the driving force. Although Palworld developer Pocketpair is Nintendo's immediate target, it's ...

Nintendo has been denied a patent application that would've allowed it to own the mechanic of capturing a character or creature in a game, such as that found in Pokémon games. As reported by Games ...

From the moment 4-year-old Cameron first stepped out into Glimmer in Spyro 2, he knew video games were going to play a central role in the rest of his life. Though he never planned to make it the ...

The news that the head of the US Patent Office has ordered the agency to re-examine a patent awarded to Nintendo at the start of September is both highly unusual – it's more than a decade since the ...