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Patenting Play: Analyzing Recent Video Game Play Patents

The video game industry’s rapid growth has intensified efforts to protect gameplay innovations through patents, a practice that has long sparked controversy over breadth and innovation constraints. Recent patent activity by Nintendo and Electronic Arts highlights this tension. Nintendo has secured multiple U.S. patents covering core Pokémon-related gameplay mechanics...

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Video games at work? It sounds fun, but there are ethical risks

Recent developments in the video game industry challenge the notion of gaming as merely a recreational pastime, highlighting its potential to tackle real-world issues through "gamification." This approach integrates game mechanics into non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems like energy conservation and climate change, exemplified by the UN's Mission 1.5.

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