14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Bungie has filled trademarks for four new names that could be linked to its new video game development project, although no official information has been offered on it since the developers entered into a ten-year exclusive agreement with publisher Activision Blizzard.
The four new names registered in 2010 are: “Osiris,” “Dead Orbit,” “New Monarchy” and “Seven Seraphs.”
The filings with the United States Copyright and Patent Office have been registered in late July 2010, just after the Activision deal was confirmed and have been now unveiled by Superannuation, which specializes on looking for copyright fillings that could clue gamers as to the future projects of major developers.
“Dead Orbit,” “New Monarchy” and “Seven Seraphs” now have also registered Internet domains linked to them, although there's no actual content that can show what Bungie is working on.
Bungie has also registered a domain called “Bungie Aerospace,” which prompted speculation in the first half of last year that the company could be creating another futuristic shooter, this time incorporating a more open world approach and some sections that feature spaceships and space battles, delving into the long lost genre of the space sim.
A job posting has also popped up on the Bungie site talking about a developer who has experience with mobile game development, who could “define the interface of Bungie's next gaming universe to the world.”
Activision published video games are most of the type platform agnostic, meaning that the publisher is aiming to get them to as many devices as possible so that the audience is as big as it can be.
Bungie is best known for creating the Halo franchise for Microsoft and its Xbox family of consoles, with the grand finale delivered in the fall of 2010 with Halo: Reach, a prequel that many consider to be the most accomplished title in the series, both in terms of actual gameplay and in terms of narrative.