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What Does Defensive Patent Mean? A defensive patent is a patent that is used with the primary intention of defending a company against patent infringement lawsuits. This differs from more aggressive uses for patents, which can include generating royalties or preventing competition through legal action. A defensive patent can protect a patent holder by allowing it to countersue after a competitor sues for infringement - or even if the competitor sues for some other reason....

What Does Keyboard Buffer Mean? A keyboard buffer is a small area in the computer’s memory (RAM) that is used to temporarily store the keystrokes from the keyboard before they are processed by the CPU. This is done because there is a delay between the pressing of the key and the sending of the signals, so to avoid timing issues, all the keystrokes are stored in the keyboard buffer until the user presses the “enter” key or a similar command which is very evident in command-line processing or time-sharing systems of generations past....

SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains details and spoilers from Netflix’s The Witcher Season 1. In a rather bold move, the season finale of The Witcher is mostly the Yennefer show, while Geralt and Ciri take separate naps in the background. This is great since Yennefer is the third-best character - with Geralt being number one, Jaskier in second place, and Ciri currently out of contention - so it’s exciting to see her play field general to a small force of mages....

Thimbleweed Park, a lovingly crafted spiritual successor to classic LucasArts adventure games, can be yours today for free. All you need to do is pick it up at the Epic Games Store. Called a love letter to adventure games of yore, Thimbleweed Park is a nostalgia trip starring FBI agents and a potty-mouthed clown. Well, to be fair, the clown is under some kind of curse, I guess. But it’s that kind of oddball quirkiness that you’d expect from the minds that created Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion....

Yesterday’s announcement of Dark Souls Remastered had us giddy at the prospect of dying all over again (and probably lobbing our controller out the window too), but Bandai Namco Games has confirmed that it’s planning an extra treat for Japanese PS4 owners: Say hello to the Dark Souls Trilogy box. The pack includes Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, and Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades, and hits stores in Japan on May 24....

A game very much like Pokémon Go has just been released, but it doesn’t want you to go out and hunt monsters or animals. It requires players to look for and discover famous religious figures. No video game, maybe ever, has taken the world by storm quite like Pokémon Go did back during the summer of 2016. It really did feel as if people were playing it literally everywhere you went, probably because they were....

Tom Holland has revealed the first official image of the actor in full costume as Nathan Drake for the upcoming Uncharted movie via his social media accounts. It’s actually been quite the day for juicy details on the movie, as the image came soon after the man behind the game’s potrayal of the hero—Nolan North—himself revealed that he had recently visited the set and met with Holland during filming, which also gave us a lovely shot of the two Nathans having a chinwag behind the scenes as well as a couple of intriguing-looking props....

Tower of Fantasy is an MMORPG game similar to Genshin Impact. You have to complete multiple quests for the game to progress further. The game works on huge servers that require continuous maintenance. It is possible that you may experience certain bugs or glitches in the games on multiple occasions. It is important for the developers to know about such occurrences so that they can correct the issues in the next update....

Dovetail Games’ Train Simulator series has been running for a decade at this point. It’s quite a feat to support a game for that length of time, yet, here we have the 2019 installment of Train Simulator now pulling into the station. With it, it’s brought in a cargo load of content, including three new routes, eight locomotives, and a technical upgrade: 64-bit support. That’s not a bad collection of new content....

In an interview with Famitsu at E3 2019, the producers of the recently announced Trials of Mana, Masaru Oyamada and Shinichi Tasuke, revealed various details about the game and its production process. This entry in the Mana series will release for PC in early 2020. Trials of Mana is a full 3D remake of Seiken Densetsu 3, the sequel to Secret of Mana. As it turns out, this game only just received an English language localization this week, thanks to the Collection of Mana for the Nintendo Switch (Confusingly, the title of Seiken Densetsu 3 in that Switch collection is also Trials of Mana, but the game coming to PC is totally new)....

The history of Twin Mirror is as twisting as that of its protagonist, Sam Higgs. It’s been in the works at Dontnod since 2016, was announced as an episodic game in 2018, and then it finally put out a teaser trailer at the PC Gaming Show this year. In those intervening years it’s morphed into a single, non-episodic title, and appears to have been pretty heavily reworked. Nonetheless, this is Dontnod sticking with the tried-and-tested Storytelling With Choices format that worked beautifully in Life is Strange....

The Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda has said that players “definitely won’t want to miss” the game’s ending. In a letter sent to reviewers ahead of the game’s release next week, Ueda described The Last Guardian as an “experience unlike any other”, and explained that he was relieved to finally get the game in players’ hands. “When we first began work on The Last Guardian, I intended it to take from and build on our experience working on ICO and Shadow of the Colossus,” he explained, “making it something akin to a greatest hits album....

The upcoming free update and paid DLC content that is coming to Total War: Warhammer II will come with a significant performance upgrade, as players can expect to see up to a sixty-percent increase in the speed of enemy turns depending on their hardware. The next DLC update for Total War: Warhammer II is called The Shadow & The Blade, which will add two legendary lords with their own individual factions: Malus Darkblade for Hag Graef of the Dark Elves and Deathmaster Snikch of Clan Eshin for the Skaven....

In the past, Doritos and Mountain Dew have worked with Call of Duty to run some promotions. After all, the Black Ops Cold War logo was leaked on a Doritos packet. The relationship is continuing into Call of Duty: Vanguard and some rewards are coming in the form of double XP tokens, and an operator skin, with Mountain Dew and Doritos packaging. To participate in the promotion, you have to buy specially marked Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew Game Fuel, or Doritos items....

The time has come, my Viking friends. After a delay, weeks of teases, and a handful of spotlight videos, Valheim – Hearth & Home has a release date. The update, which stands to overhaul many of the game’s systems, will be available on September 16. The news was unveiled today during Opening Night Live at gamescom 2021, along with a cozy, animated trailer for Valheim – Hearth & Home. The update will change up and add more to the game when it arrives....

Black Metal in Valheim is a powerful and high-level material that will help you craft some of the best weapons in the early access version of the game. This is why most players who have progressed fairly ahead want to know – how to get Black Metal in Valheim? Well, first, you need Black Metal Scraps. Follow the steps in this guide to know what you should do. Valheim Black Metal – How to Get You have to make Black Metal in Valheim from Black Metal Scraps....

In the previous Valorant patch, Riot Games introduced new systems to combat toxic behavior. It didn’t do anything in the way of agent and weapon balancing. With patch 2.06, the Valorant team is giving Viper another rework, Yoru and Killjoy receive some buffs, and the Bucky shotgun gets more focused. Patch 2.06 also adds some updates to Valorant’s newly introduced Escalation Mode. Raze’s Showstopper now comes with two Blast Pack Charges that refill when you touch the ground....

The UGR was added to Warzone shortly after the launch of Season 3 Pacific in 2022. This is a Cold War SMG with a competitive Time to Kill (TTK), but with a few downsides that make it tough to use in a practical sense. Although the UGR hits hard, it’s held back by its small magazine size of 30 (though you can extend it to 36 with a specific magazine attachment)....

Weird Wednesday is a chance for us to dive into the stranger PC games that have released over the last few decades. This week, we take a look at Yogho! Yogho! spel, a collectathon about a boy who is overly obsessed with yogurt. Developed in 1995 by the Netherlands company Euphoria, this game ends up being an enjoyable platformer despite the ludicrous premise. In the ’80s and ’90s, games from food companies weren’t exactly uncommon....

What Does Client Authentication Certificate Mean? A client authentication certificate is a certificate used to authenticate clients during an SSL handshake. It authenticates users who access a server by exchanging the client authentication certificate. Client authentication is identical to server authentication, with the exception that the telnet server demands a certificate from the accessing client. This is to verify that the client is who they claim to be. This eliminates the listing of anonymous entries in a database’s user activity log when an Internet user accesses the server....