Wed, Aug 04, 2010 | 12:03 BST
EA registers three new Syndicate trademarks
EA’s ramping up the bassline on a potential Sydnicate reboot: its recently registered three new trademarks on it.
The filings, spotted by superannuation, were filed as recently as Friday.
Speculation on a reboot for the series, originally made by Peter Molyneux’s old stomping ground Bullfrog, has been ramped up in the past couple of months.
It’s thought that Swedish studio Starbreeze is currently developing it under the monkier “Project Redline”, and was rated by Australia’s OFLC back in May.
The developer also had a Jason Bourne project in development alongside Redline, but that was cancelled in April.
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Tags: Project Redline, starbreeze, syndicate
18 comments
#1
Hunam
04/08/10, 12:47 pm
I needs me some cyber punk thuggery stat.
#2
AHA-Lambda
04/08/10, 1:01 pm
will this end up being an fps btw? =/
#3
Blerk
04/08/10, 1:05 pm
I’m thinking it might end up something like “Grand Theft Crackdown”.
GTA-like environment and missions, Crackdown-style super agents, four-player co-op.
#4
Hunam
04/08/10, 1:17 pm
With this as Deus Ex 3, at lest we’re finally getting some cyber punk again, thank god.
#5
Psychotext
04/08/10, 1:19 pm
Cautiously optimistic.
#6
Blerk
04/08/10, 1:22 pm
Wow, just been looking at some videos of the original on YouTube and it’s not even remotely as good-looking as I remembered it. Memory’s not what it used to be, obviously.
#7
Happy Hardon Harry
04/08/10, 1:32 pm
Starbreeze were never the proper studio to develop such a game.
The title should’ve been given to a studio like Relic, a studio known for developing great RTS/RTT titles. Relic would’ve certainly take the Syndicate franchise forward.
But Starbreeze? We’ll probably end with some fucking crap FPS or mediocre RTT.
#8
Hunam
04/08/10, 1:39 pm
Relic are owned by THQ, as is the way, the best developers are never in the same company as the IP they’d be great with
Saying that THQ are sitting on Homeworld and have been since they bought the rights a few years back.
#9
Happy Hardon Harry
04/08/10, 1:46 pm
@8
EA can do what they want with the IP, you see that already with Starbreeze. So, it doesn’t matter if Relic are owned by THQ or not.
EA would get a better Syndicate game if a studio like Relic created it. Simple as.
#10
Blerk
04/08/10, 1:49 pm
Of course it matters. THQ are hardly likely to let Relic make a game for EA, are they?
#11
DeSpiritusBellum
04/08/10, 1:56 pm
Bullfrog or bust.
#12
Blerk
04/08/10, 1:58 pm
Better break out the DeLorean, then.
#13
Happy Hardon Harry
04/08/10, 1:59 pm
@10
Money talks…just ask Valve regarding PS3 development, Epic and their GOW franchise to the 360 and Rockstar North on their DLC content for the 360, etc.
In other words, nothing in this industry is out of the question. You should know that.
#14
Blerk
04/08/10, 2:05 pm
Why would they ever buy a team from another publisher to make a game when they already have lots of their own teams or can just hire an independent team? Like they did?
#15
Happy Hardon Harry
04/08/10, 2:10 pm
Why not it’s been done before i.e. Sega created F-Zero GX, Team Ninja and Retro Studios on Metriod, etc.
As i said above EA can do what they want with the IP, just look at the Starbreeze case. EA don’t own Starbreeze. So your point above is a null one.
Money talks in this industry…
#16
Freek
04/08/10, 2:44 pm
Yes, but that’s third party studios working for Nintendo. An entirely different situation then EA letting THQ (a direct competitor) make a game for them.
That’s like Sony making the next Halo for Xbox, never gonna happen.
#17
DeSpiritusBellum
04/08/10, 2:52 pm
@12 Grab the plutonium and meet me under the clock at midnight. It’s on.
#18
Tomo
04/08/10, 4:52 pm
I’m cautiously hopeful for this at the moment. I’d love an old-fashioned style Syndicate with a modern-day twist, but I reckon it’ll move into another genre a bit like the new X COM game.
Perhaps they could release an XBLA game in the style of the oldies? Along with the main game. Maybe that’s what one of the trademarks if for?!