… again one of these (many) unfortunatey patents:
Multi-Publisher Legal War Looms Over 3-D Patent (GameDailyBiz)
Let’s pray that Europa won’t import the software patent system.
This is a rather silly patent too - it’s basically any orbit or examine-style UI interaction. A basic physical thing that we’ve been doing for tens of thousands of years and has been explained by mathematicians as a polar coordinate system for a good couple of hundred years.
But if you ignore the too-broad claims of the patent, what’s left seems to me to apply more to the kind of techniques used by QuickTimeVR. Generalising it out to “All 3D shooters since Quake” seems to be a bit of a stretch.
Although many of the little guys being targetted in this first round of litigation will have little choice but to concede.
Nah, they can just ignore it. Or relocate to Europe 
Cas 