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Apple Racks Up the Gaming Patents

Posted by Soulskill on from the one-button-controllers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Evidence has been growing that Apple is developing a new gaming console. Now, there are some possible details about how a combined media/game console might work, based on patent applications filed by Apple in late 2007 and early 2008. Here is some of what we can look for: having your personal music integrated into a title, a 'natural' gesture multitouch interface, and a single online store that sells games, media, and video."

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  1. Re:Cause someone will bring this up: by jolson74 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually... one thing really cool about the Xbox 360 is that if you are playing your own music (either from the hard disk, from a PC via Media Center, or from an MP3 player connected via USB) it will override the soundtrack of whatever game you are playing. But you still get all of the other game sounds (voices, sound effects, etc.).

    Without that feature, I think 'Burnout: Paradise' would have driven me insane.