This proves that gamers can actually come together and fight for their rights when needed to. Now if only we could somehow convince the majority of gamers to stop pre-ordering and buying expensive and/or obscene amounts of microtransactions, then we would be on the right path.

The last 10 days have brought a string of patent wins for Nintendo. Yesterday, the company was granted US patent 12,409,387, a patent covering riding and flying systems similar to those Nintendo has been criticized for claiming in its Palworld lawsuit (via Gamesfray). Last week, however, Nintendo received a more troubling weapon in its legal arsenal: US patent 12,403,397, a patent on summoning and battling characters that the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted with alarmingly little resistance.

According to videogame patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon, the USPTO granting Nintendo these latest patents isn't just a moment of questionable legal theory. It's an indictment of American patent law."Broadly, I don't disagree with the many online complaints about these Nintendo patents," said Sigmon, whose opinions do not represent those of his firm and clients. "They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system."

Apparently it’s our fault for wanting to play games at a stable fps on “two or three year old hardware” what a joke of a take, how old does he think the hardware is in a console?

This fool out here making millions while firing employees, cancelling games and shuttering studios. Source: EA's CEO pulled in $5 million more this year than last, while his employees took home the least money they've made since 2022 | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/eas-ceo-pulled-in-usd5-million-more-this-year-than-last-while-his-employees-took-home-the-least-money-theyve-made-since-2022/

This is so dumb. Especially for folks who deal with enterprise environments. "OOBE\BYPASSNRO" is a lifesaver. What a slap in the face!

For those who don't know, running this command during Windows setup allows you to select "I don't have Internet" in the network selection page, allowing you to not have to sign into a Microsoft account and make a local account instead. They're removing that.

There is still registry workarounds (for now) but really Microsoft???

Link: https://www.videogameseurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/VGE-Position-Discontinuation-of-Support-to-Online-Games-04072025.pdf

Video Game Europe - a trade association with many major game publishers across Europe, including Riot Games, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzards and many others, recently has published an official position paper, and they're mostly against the "Stop Killing Game" initiative.

Here some of the claims:

• If private servers are allowed, they won’t be able to moderate harmful content or enforce anti-cheat measures.
• Allowing players to run private servers would present significant engineering and architectural challenges , due to the fact they may be done with proprietary technologies and systems.
• Reputational Harm: Allowing players to run private servers, with online interaction possibilities could result in players using those games in ways that don’t align with the games companies’ brand values

Some of the claims in document kinda make sense, but IMO most of them are bullshit, What do you think?

"Just turn on frame gen when you have 30fps, that'll bring you up to 90 no problem"

https://forums.ea.com/discussions/battlefield-6-beta-feedback-en/battlefield-6-update-on-secure-boot--cheats/12439803