EA Renews Trademarks on Old Game Titles

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BigDownload is reporting that EA has decided to renew trademarks on some old franchise game titles. Here is what they had to say:

If you love the classics, this tidbit of news will likely get your attention. The trademark-obsessed web site superannuation has discovered that Electronic Arts has renewed their trademarks on four of their properties. Two of them are from their former Bulldog studio (Theme Hospital and Populous). The other two are for their racing game Road Rash . . . and Wing Commander.

Personally we would love to see EA try to revive the Wing Commander series first. There are lots of sim games (including EA's own Sims series) and racing games (including EA's own Need for Speed and Burnout series) But the space combat-sim genre has been regulated to smaller developers like 3000AD and Egosoft. We would love to see a big budget space-based action game for once. We really would.

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[TheEn|gma]

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I was hoping to see Dungeon Keeper there as well

[Micster]

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Road Rash. Interesting.

[TheEn|gma]

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In reality this is probably just so competitors can't take over the name and probably not signs of further games to come, which is a real shame as I'd love to see some Bullfrog titles rise from the ashes.

[JunoPPCLI]

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Wing Commander is alive and well, we did an xbox live arcade title under the wing commander franchise not to long ago.

[CaptainKirk]

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Theme Hospital is EPIC! I still play it!

[MrKLM]

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I pull out Populous from time time, great game.