14 DAY TRIAL // Gearbox recently filed four trademarks for the title "War Hero," with titles including "World War II Hero," "Brothers in Arms War Hero," and "Modern War Hero." The developer has just confirmed that the titles are real, saying that it's something for "down the road." Unfortunately, it has not said whether it plans to use all of them or whether it is only protecting potential interests related to a new project
Gearbox has created a series of games named Brothers in Arms, which might mean that it is also interested in putting together another game that inhabits the same universe but, instead of a company of soldiers fighting in Normandy and beyond in World War II, focuses on a single characters.
It would be another entry in the already crowded first person shooter Nazi killing crowd, but Gearbox probably has a unique feature set to distinguish the game from the rest.
Randy Pitchford, who is the president and the public voice of Gearbox Software, says they are important as they “reveal a bit about our interests in the development of another original intellectual property” but, at the moment, there's no guarantee that the videogames will ever be launched as “we haven't even talked to any potential partners” about War Hero or anything related to it.
Gearbox already has three so-called “mystery projects” listed on its Internet page. These are said to be in the early stages of development but the outfit is not yet ready to talk publicly about them.
With the company working on two known titles at present, Borderlands, which is set to be launched sometime this fall, and Aliens: Colonial Marines, which should arrive in early 2010, it might be some time before anything official about War Hero is known. Of course, this will not stop gamers from speculating about it.