The Japan-based video game giant Nintendo is in trouble. A small US technology company, Hillcrest Labs is now starting a lawsuit against Nintendo, accusing them in patent infringement. Hillcrest Labs insists that they own the patents to the technology that Wii uses. For this reason the company asked the U.S. Trade panel to stop Nintendo [...]

Nintendo has made a lot of money from the Wii, but sometimes all good things must come to an end. In Nintendo’s case, it must now pay $21 million to Texas company Anascape. The small gaming company specializes in making game controllers and Nintendo’s classic controllers were invented and patented by it. Anascape sued Nintendo [...]

We recently posted news concerning conflicting claims over the patent to the technology behind the Nintendo Wii controller, but we didn’t expect that others would also jump into the fray. However, the Wii blog reports than an ex-employee of Chicago-based Midway Games claims to have come up with the idea of motion-sensitive controllers 10 years [...]