Wed, Mar 11, 2009 | 16:36 GMT
ActiBlizz applies for Sing Hero trademark
If the US government’s Patent and Trademark office’s website is to be believed, Activision’s applied for a trademark for Sing Hero.
Surely it sounds like what it is–a competitor to Sony’s Singstar and Microsoft’s Lips.
Looks as though ActiBlizz bossman Bobby Kotick wasn’t lying during his company’s financial call last month, when he said that five more “Hero” games would be heading our way this year.
Great. More drunken karaoke is in our future.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Development, Legalities, Music, Rhythm action
Tags: karaoke, patents, sing hero, trademarks
11 comments
#1
Blerk
11/03/09, 4:26 pm
“Sing Hero” sounds stupid. “Song Hero”, maybe. “Singing Hero”, perhaps. But “Sing Hero”? Shome mishtake, shirley?
#2
Hunam
11/03/09, 4:28 pm
That’s one hell of a sexy mouth.
#3
Tiger Walts
11/03/09, 4:38 pm
What next?
Dance Hero
Dance Hero on Ice
Strictly Dance Hero on Ice with the Stars
#4
Whizzo
11/03/09, 4:50 pm
I’m looking forward to “M249 Hero”, it’ll be cheaper than spending money in the Las Vegas gun store to play it.
#5
Hunam
11/03/09, 4:56 pm
Dance hero would be legendary as it would just be full circle back to dance mats.
Maybe on Song Hero they will have a X-Factor style mode where you sing and someone tells you what an asshole you are, aside from your family I mean.
#6
Rock_Me_Amadeus
11/03/09, 5:08 pm
How long before the Hero bubble bursts?
#7
Hunam
11/03/09, 5:13 pm
This whole casual gaming revolution has me in a tailspin. I just want it all to go away, it was all so much better in the past.
#8
cachucha
11/03/09, 5:18 pm
so officially you can add hero at the end of any verb, profession or object and trademark it?
#9
Funkyd
11/03/09, 8:59 pm
How long ’til Heroin Hero?
#10
Patrick Garratt
11/03/09, 8:59 pm
#11
Tiger Walts
12/03/09, 9:47 am
“I’m looking forward to “M249 Hero”, it’ll be cheaper than spending money in the Las Vegas gun store to play it.”
How about I rig a Wiimote into the toy Rambo M60?