Terminal Reality, the Texas studio best known for titles including Nocturne, BloodRayne, and Ghostbusters: The Video Game has apparently shut down.
The tech giant is facing a lawsuit for its alleged infringement of Patent 6,362,822 and Patent 7,061,488, relating to graphical lighting and shadowing methods.
Terminal Reality states that, while developing its own projects such as Nocturne, Bloodrayne, and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, it built and reiterated the Infernal Engine which it then licensed out to other studios.
Personally, I am against these types of lawsuits. However in Microsoft's case which has managed to make billions off of other people's products by claiming that competitors like Google stole their patent, I think its just medicine. Now let it be known that many companies do this and nothing will stop lawyers from trying to get paid for doing nothing. I think the worst of this was definitely King's lawyers and the whole attempt to patent the word 'candy'.
Since they mention PUBG does that mean they are going after Epic since PUBG uses Unreal Engine 4
If companies or individuals were unable to protect there investment with intellectual property rights, we would not see the advancement of technology, medicine etc that we currently take for granted.
Who knows how much investment was spent in developing the tools protected under those patent rights, why shouldn't they be entitled to profit from their investment.
If MS have infringed then they deserve to be held to account, you better believe that if the roles were reversed, MS would seek to prove infringement.
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Developed by Terminal Reality, this 1998 racer remains as one of the best monster truck games ever released.
"After disappearing from Steam mid 2012, Ghostbuster: The Video Game has made a casual reappearance on the platform just a few days into 2014. Ghostbusters is a decent game, well worth 8/10 on scale of 1 to 10 by a website that covers videogames on the internet."
This was a really good movie IP game. Felt like a sequel and was a great fan service to us who love the universe. Definitely a game worth checking out if you missed it.
After several lackluster releases it was bound to happen. Though its pretty sad to know some people will be out of job right before the holidays. Hopefully they got a notice in advance about the shutdown.
loved the Nocturne games..
Eh, their games sucked anyways.
Good luck people in Terminal Reality studios hopefully you guys can work new studios
Ghostbusters was a great Game, and I played it on ps3 which gathered a lot of controversy back then