DISCover beats Microsoft to the patent office
You may have heard of DISCover, that company making game consoles that play PC games. Budget DVD player maestro Apex was spotted at this year's E3 video game expo showing off a video game console called the ApeXtreme that uses DISCover's technology, and Alienware is reportedly signed up to build one as well. So far they've done a decent job of singing up licensees, but they might have a shot at landing the biggest licensee of them all: Microsoft. Turns out that DISCover holds a patent covering any "home entertainment system for playing software designed for play in home computer," something which might harsh on Microsoft's plans to have the Xbox 2 play PC games as well as console games. Microsoft either is going to have to change course, pay up, or expect one hell of a lawsuit.
