{"id":18142,"date":"2018-04-23T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316845"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T15:01:00","slug":"terminal-reality-is-suing-microsoft-over-shadow-and-lighting-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/terminal-reality-is-suing-microsoft-over-shadow-and-lighting-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminal Reality is suing Microsoft over shadow and lighting patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BloodRayne<\/em> developer Terminal Reality and its exclusive licensee Infernal Technology\u00a0are suing Microsoft for infringing on the patents for its\u00a0lighting and shadowing technologies.<\/p>\n<p>While primarily known as a developer, Terminal also created a variety of game engines, including the Infernal Engine that&#8217;s at the heart of this case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentarcade.com\/2018\/04\/infernal-technology-and-terminal.html\">as spotted by Patent Arcade<\/a>), Terminal believes a number of Microsoft titles and the engines used to create them have infringed on its Infernal Engine tech patents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The list of infringing titles includes big names and recent releases like <em>Halo 5<\/em>, <em>Gears of War 4<\/em>, <em>Sea of Thieves<\/em>, and <em>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although its currently at loggerheads with\u00a0Microsoft, Terminal hasn&#8217;t been active in the world of game development since <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/206823\/Report_Independent_studio_Terminal_Reality_has_shut_down.php\">reportedly shutting\u00a0down its Texas studio back in\u00a02013<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BloodRayne developer Terminal Reality and its exclusive licensee Infernal Technology\u00a0are suing Microsoft for infringing on the patents for its\u00a0lighting and shadowing technologies. While primarily known as a developer, Terminal also created a variety of game engines, including the Infernal Engine that&#8217;s at the heart of this case.\u00a0 According to the complaint (as spotted by Patent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}