Gaming consoles are dead. Long live gaming consoles! For more than two decades, it’s been a regular topic of conversation: When might gaming consoles, the dedicated hardware that has been the core of the gaming biz, become obsolete — and be replaced by general-purpose platforms like PCs and smartphones? The debate has been stoked by […]

“Palworld,” a survival-strategy game known colloquially as “Pokémon With Guns,” is the target of a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by Nintendo and the Pokémon Co. Nintendo said the lawsuit against Pocketpair, the company behind “Palworld,” was filed Sept. 18 in Tokyo District Court. The lawsuit seeks an injunction against the alleged infringement and compensation for damages […]