Back in June, Bungie received a massive cash injection, to the tune of $US100 ($138) million, from Chinese tech giant NetEase. The investment was earmarked for a game unrelated to the developer’s Destiny franchise and today, that project appears to have a name: Matter.
Bungie’s original announcement on the investment was thin on details. The trademark filing, registered with the European Union Intellectual Property Office, is sadly no different.
[referenced url=”https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/06/bungie-gets-132-million-for-new-non-destiny-game/” thumb=”https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_lfill,w_768/uqcsfpiwctevaadmrumk.jpg” title=”Bungie Gets $132 Million For New Non-Destiny Game” excerpt=”Bungie has been quietly working on a non-Destiny new game for some time now, and today the studio acknowledged it for the first time, announcing a partnership with Chinese publisher NetEase that will raise them $US100 million ($132 million).”]
What it does have is a single image, which you can find at the top of the article. Going by that alone, we can safely assume Bungie is working on a tactical paintball FPS.
Or not. Whatever it is, it looks to be multiplayer, going by the “Goods and services” section of the filing:
Computer game software downloadable from a global computer network … Entertainment services, namely, providing video games and video game competitions via the Internet.
That’s all we have to go on for now. Feel free to speculate in the comments.
MATTER [EUIPO, via PC Invasion]
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