Why video game loading screens could soon be fun

In a fascinating bit of legal minutia, the expiration of a decades-old patent could lead to waiting for video games to load becoming a lot less boring.
In 1995, Namco -- now Bandai Namco -- filed patent on "Recording medium, method of loading games program code means, and games machine". It sounds boring, but had exciting applications: it let Namco run games-within-games while the main title loaded data.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...