If you’ve got any Dragonborn T-shirts, bumper stickers or other crap up on Cafe Press or Etsy, now might be the time to hold a clearance sale. ZeniMax Media just submitted a trademark application for that term, joining the recent filing it made for “Fus Ro Dah,” presumably for the same purposes.
Just so you know, IO Interactive was doin’ alternate-reality games before doing alternate-reality games was cool, giving up a look at what’s believed to be Hitman’s next entry. A trademark filing by Square Enix now indicates it will be titled “Hitman: Absolution.”
Rooting through paperwork, a NeoGAF poster found three trademark filings by ZeniMax Media, parent of Bethesda Softworks, maker of Fallout: New Vegas. One corresponds to a name from a graffiti file (pictured) like one that tipped off December’s “Dead Money” DLC.
In response to Nintendo’s attempt to trademark “It’s on like Donkey Kong”, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert decides to squat on other dated catchphrases, just in case.
Popular Facebook game Mafia Wars comes under fire today as creator Zynga is sued for trademark violation by Digital Chocolate, the creator of the Mafia Wars mobile phone game series.
A trademark application filed last week by Capcom for Mega Man Universe could indicate big things in store for everyone’s favourite blue bomber.