14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer Bungie has been revealed by a fan site to be actually connected through a company registered by its executives to the Destiny project that was rumored to be in development towards the beginning of the year.
Halo.Gungie.Org has shown that two senior executives at Bungie, Harold Ryan, who is the president and Martin O'Donnell, who is the main composer, created a dummy corporation called Podophobia Entertainment (the term refers to those who have an unexplainable fear of feet).
The address of the corporation is that of the old Bungie offices and it has acted to trademark the name Destiny way back in 2009.
The trademark covered: “”Computer game software; Computer game software downloadable from a global computer network; Video game software; Virtual reality game software.”
Interestingly the trademark application is linked to the Santa Monica branch of Podophobia, which is also the place where the headquarters of Activision Blizzard are located.
Another trademark, that could be related to Destiny, is for a phrase “Be Brave.”
Bungie has not offered any official position on the link between itself, Destiny and Podophobia Entertainment, and Activision will probably deliver the usual response of not commenting on rumor and speculation.
The initial Destiny rumor was talking about a complex MMO-like structure, similar to World of Warcraft by Blizzard, but set in space and using a number of first-person shooter elements.
Publisher Activision Blizzard and developer Bungie have entered into an exclusive 10-year agreement in the middle of 2010, with the stated aim of creating a whole new video game universe.
Bungie has become well known in the gaming space because it managed to re-write the rules of the first-person shooter with the first Halo game and then built a four-game franchise using a complex backstory and the character of Master Chief.