EA files System Shock trademark
Beloved series' developer may have moved on, but its publisher might still have designs on the franchise.
Take-Two may have locked down the rights to the spiritual successor of System Shock, but Electronic Arts is making sure the original franchise stays put.
Electronic Arts registered a trademark last month on the title "System Shock" for use in video games. Interestingly enough, it also made note that the trademark was to apply to "a computer game that may be accessed network-wide by network users," or "an online computer game accessed and played via mobile and cellular phones and other wireless devices."
An EA representative was not immediately available for comment as to whether the trademark was a sign that the dormant franchise would soon be awoken, or if it was just a bit of routine upkeep of the company's intellectual property.
The System Shock name has been in the news a bit lately as Irrational Games, developer of the classic System Shock 2, was purchased by Take-Two Interactive, which recently registered a trademark for BioShock, Irrational's "spiritual successor" to the System Shock franchise.
Stay tuned to GameSpot for more on BioShock and any future System Shock titles as details become available.
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- Publisher(s): Looking Glass Studios
- Developer(s): Irrational Games
- Genre: Role-Playing
- Release: Jul 31, 1999 (US) »





