SEGA has once again protected a number of its classic franchises since this month’s awards show revealed they are working on new Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi games. The latest batch of trademarks includes Outrun and Shinobi, among others. The Japanese company has previously said it wants to revitalize some of its older franchises ...
2023 was a very bad year for Niantic. The company has come under fire for its changes to Pokemon GO’s remote raids, they recently laid off 230 employees, and the mobile game has been plagued with all kinds of bugs and issues. However, their troubles are not over yet, because now a lawsuit has been ...
SEGA has filed a new trademark on Japanese trademark website Chizai Watch for something called Sonic & Friends. Sonic’s site, Sonic Stadium, says it’s definitely a trademark associated with video games, not just a general trademark for the Sonic the Hedgehog brand. The Sonic & Friends trademark also mentions something called “commodity service programs for ...
Konami Digital Entertainment recently filed a trademark for Project Zircon in Japan and the name Zircon appears to be related to Castlevania as Zircon appears as a gem in the classic video game series. The trademark was filed on March 7 in Japan. Konami teased at the beginning of the year that they have many ...
Forms of advertising and revenue are constantly changing. We’ve been listening for some time to publishers looking for new ways to monetize games with live ads. A new patent filed by Microsoft (detected by playful) points to the same thing. The patent in question appears to be a method of ...
It is not just Nintendo that file trademarks. Other video gaming companies such as Bandai Namco will also, from time to time, file some trademarks of their own for similar reasons. The latest example of this has been discovered earlier today. Bandai Namco has filed a trademark in Europe for “Ultimate Ninja Storm CONNECTIONS”. If ...
It is not just Nintendo that file trademarks. Other video gaming companies will also, from time to time, file some trademarks of their own for similar reasons. This even includes No More Heroes creator Suda51 and Deadly Premonition creator Swery65. For example, it has been discovered that Suda51’s studio, White Owls, had filed trademarks for ...
It is not just Nintendo that file trademarks. Other video gaming companies such as Square Enix will also, from time to time, file some trademarks of their own for similar reasons. For example, you may recall that, yesterday, it was revealed that they had filed trademarks for SaGa Emerald Beyond and Emberstoria. Well, it seems ...
It sounds as though Square Enix is plowing on with new projects in the classic SaGa series as the company recently filed a new trademark for SaGa Emerald Beyond, which could well be a new entry in the JRPG franchise. There are apparently multiple SaGa series projects in development at Square Enix and the team ...
You may recall that, back in April, a labor complaint had been filed against Nintendo of America and Aston Carter, a firm it uses for hiring contractors. The complaint alleged that both Nintendo and Aston Carter violated their legally protected right to unionize. Unfortunately, it seems that this was not an isolated incident. The National ...
