Google applied for a patent earlier this year called āWeb-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videosā. Translation: bringing games to YouTube. Interesting.
The application was filed in February, but only published this month. While itās heavy on fluff, the gist of the patent is that Google would like to be able to alter existing YouTube videos in order to create āinteractive gamesā within the service.
There are many possibilities as to what this would leave us with; we could get custom vids created with games in mind, we could get āchoose your own adventureā deals, we could get somethingā¦else that I just canāt wrap my head around at this moment.
Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube [bnet, via Slashdot]
