Posted by Daeity
On Monday, December 5, 2011
- City State Entertainment (which was founded by Mark Jacobs, former CEO of Mythic Entertainment) just registered some trademarks in the OZ universe: "MARCH ON OZ" and "WORLDS OF OZ".
- Lucasfilm Ltd. filed trademarks (first and second) for "RED TAILS". Looks to be mostly online social services, media, and toys for the new movie I'm assuming. Nothing specifically related to video games though.
- Paradox Interactive filed a new trademark for "DUNGEONLAND". Paradox is most well known for historical strategy computer games, and they're the ones currently developing that Salem MMORPG. Dungeonland is probably a new IP, and unrelated to Gary Gygax's (no relation) Dungeonland D&D adventure module.
- UBISOFT has more movement on the Assassin's Creed front. Live streaming and television series, books and comics, audio recordings and live action entertainment. Assassin's Creed: The Opera, anyone? :) With heavy investment into new transmedia, that would mean that the next AC is probably being developed right now. (I don't follow AC though, so this might already be common news; i.e. the new AC is already being worked on or announced already.)
- Nintendo of America has filed a new Pokemon Trademark. "PIKACHU" specific goods and services ("Candies, pasta or rice, breakfast cereals, pastries, chewing gum"). I'll keep my eye on this, this could be the first of a couple more registrations. There's probably some new Pokemon announcement coming soon. But then again, isn't there ALWAYS some kind of new Pokemon announcement coming soon?
- Taito has just filed for a new "DARIUS GAIDEN" trademark. So, if you're interested in those awesome arcade shooters, it looks like they're developing Darius Gaiden for the PC and/or consoles now too.
- World Wrestling Entertainment filed a new trademark for their new "WWE SHOWDOWN" game.
- Finally, looks like EA filed domain registrations for the new Command & Conquer "Alliances" game or social services. (e.g. commandandconqueralliance.com)
Fusible beat me to it though, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Domain registrations are a lot harder to track without a paid account. :)
The reason I'm referencing "social services" is because they also have "alliances" in the Red Alert, Tiberium, and Generals domain names. Perhaps "Alliances" is a new social service for all Command & Conquer games and future games, much like COD Elite. It's rumored that it will be revealed at the VGA this coming Dec 10th.
