Guess who patented a new system for in-game ads

Tom’s Hardware and Respawn First recently reported on a fun new patent from those wiz kids at Microsoft, one that would dynamically pause your game to show you advertisements. Here are the big wham lines from the abstract of US 202610260258 A1, “Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access:” “A content management system may…

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World of Warcraft: Forever dev has ‘no sympathy’ for players kicked from the beta for offensive names: ‘If you’re genuinely confused, remember that it’s our database, we can see every character you’ve created’

One of the developers running the World of Warcraft: Forever beta has no patience for the people who think they can get away with naming their characters something inappropriate. I was surprised at how many awful player names I’ve seen while playing the beta over the last week. WoW usually has a pretty strict filter…

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