I don’t think I’m being presumptuous if I guess that you probably haven’t thought about BloodRayne in a very long time. With a pair of decent but forgettable PS2 era action games, a key film in the Uwe Boll canon, and a Playboy spread, BloodRayne is a run-of-the-mill icon of a bygone time, but the developers behind it are back in the news - suing Microsoft for Patent Infringement.

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Terminal Reality, Inc. and Infernal Technology, LLC filed a complaint for Patent infringement against Microsoft Corporation earlier this month, according to gaming patent tracker Patent Arcade. The alleged infringements involve lighting and shadow tech for graphics simulations, which the plaintiffs say a number of Microsoft games have infringed on.