Described as "a game about love," Iron Brigade is a goofy alternate-historical WW1-themed third-person shooter/tower defense mash-up where up to four players take control of hulking bipedal tanks and must endure swarms of television-based robots.
How about Hsdfiojsdlkghfg, that couldn't possibly be taken...um...right??
What's that? Oh, I actually just filed for the trademark on Hsdfiojsdlkghfg last week, as well as its plural and possessive variants. You should expect to see my video game released sometime in the next five years if all goes according to schedule (and my lawyer in your living room tomorrow).
Cool find, but the game is about the civil war, I'm sure it's trademark is for the US whereas, Double fine's Iron Brigade is for European distribution.
How about Hsdfiojsdlkghfg, that couldn't possibly be taken...um...right??
What's that? Oh, I actually just filed for the trademark on Hsdfiojsdlkghfg last week, as well as its plural and possessive variants. You should expect to see my video game released sometime in the next five years if all goes according to schedule (and my lawyer in your living room tomorrow).
I guess it makes more sense than trademarking Edge...=/
i think they're fine (double fine, if you will har har har) because the trenched trademark was registered with specific mentions of a possible video game version and I doubt that this board game was ever planned for a digital release.
Cool find, but the game is about the civil war, I'm sure it's trademark is for the US whereas, Double fine's Iron Brigade is for European distribution.
Actually, Double Fine had to change the U.S. name of the game to Iron Brigade as well in order for the U.S. and European releases of the game to connect in multiplayer. Which, as I said in another thread, is just incredibly silly, and I can't believe that the code wasn't flexible enough to recognize the same game going by a different name.
Cool find, but the game is about the civil war, I'm sure it's trademark is for the US whereas, Double fine's Iron Brigade is for European distribution.
Actually, Double Fine had to change the U.S. name of the game to Iron Brigade as well in order for the U.S. and European releases of the game to connect in multiplayer. Which, as I said in another thread, is just incredibly silly, and I can't believe that the code wasn't flexible enough to recognize the same game going by a different name.
I doubt that the name change was due to a code issue. More likely it is a Microsoft policy that Double Fine must adhere to.
This is one of those situations where I hope they get sued a second time just because it would be funny. Then I want the case thrown out on grounds that it's stupid.
Still so bizzarre to me that a game could be completely renamed post launch.
The problem wasn't that "Trench" was a board game, but that the creators of it were also intending to make it into a videogame. If there's no intention of making an Iron Brigade videogame, they're fine and I'm guessing they checked their facts properly this time.
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