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Blizzard files trademark for 'Cataclysm'

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 1st 2009 4:00PM

The identity of Blizzard's unannounced MMO project may have just been revealed. Anonymous gaming news bloodhound superannuation recently uncovered a trio of trademarks from the MMO juggernaut, reserving the name "Cataclysm" for use in the fields of computer games, online games and paper-based products. We assume that last one doesn't mean Blizzard's dealing in Cataclysm-branded stationary.

Our acronym-infused sister site WoW.com reminded us of a very important point -- not all Blizzard trademarks turn into actual games (isn't that right, StarCraft: Ghost?). However, they also noticed that the domain name wowcataclysm.com recently expired and is now held by GoDaddy -- who handles all of Blizzard's domains. It looks like Big Blizz is up to something -- but we might have to wait till BlizzCon to find out what that something is.

[Via WoW.com]

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Tags: blizzard, cataclysm, mmo, trademark, unannounced-mmo, World-of-Warcraft-Cataclysm, wow

Reader Comments (60)

something familiar in the background...

Dead Space Face Day > Pachter Post Day

=]

Screeming watermark of death :)

ah I thought she wasnt there

You don't have some sort of beef with me do you Longhorn?

I don't wanna be the new Sprinkles.....

If you troll a website for a year and come back under 50+ accounts, then you are a Sprinkles. But it was a special breed all of its own.

You were chosen as Sprinkles successor since your comment was chosen as the thread to end his trolling, and now you must troll until he returns once again

Nah man, that should be me. Let me try....

STFU Longhorn you dumbass, hypocritical, racist, holier-than-thou Sony fanboy. Enjoy your pathetic pos3 in its third generation you Sony pony bony crony! Hypocrite to the very end........

: P

While it is an honor to be the started of the thread he was rebanned on, I do not wish to follow in that P.O.S.'s footsteps.

I love my PlayStation.......and I don't roll Troll....

this has been a really weird day here at Joystiq

Oh I missed his most recent ban, damn. What topic was it in?

It was quick and painless....

He posted one comment and it got removed. You have to find my comment at the bottom of the first page to find any piece of it.

It's on the Shoryuken post before this one.

No sign of Dead Space: Extraction chick.

...finally. that phase is over.

LOOK AGAIN!

oh. wait. she's in the background.

i gotta say. while annoying, this is very, very creative.

O RLY?

look again...

peculiar watermark wouldn't you say?

SUBTLETY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmm, the background seems oddly familiar but I can't put my finger on it...

No, but I bet you wanna put your finger IN it....

Heh, dunno bout you, but I'd put my tentacle in it...

LMAO(while)ROFL
the subtle ones are the best!

Watch out CATACLYSM!!!

nom nom nom

fap fap fap

Clever. While it's getting a bit old, I'm impressed with how you pulled this one off.

It's getting funnier with every article.

If by "funnier" you mean "less funny" than yes I agree.

They finally decided to trademark the event they're going to cause by releasing Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 on a world that is already almost completely addicted to WoW.

I approve of this comment, even if it is a bit predictable. :D

I disapprove of my comment because it doesn't relate to the article.

But yes, I wonder if this will be for their new MMO. Post-apocalyptic perhaps?

May the random theories began and Blizzard will watch all the puppets dance!

joystiq! I made this for you:

http://image.blingee.com/images16/content/output/000/000/000/59d/456519557_837750.gif?4

OMG Dude that is awesome I might have to use that on my forums.
Would that be ok with you?

I'd give credit where its due of course

Well done. I wonder if EA will change the box art because of Joystiq. That would be funny.

Go for it!

I made it using a website, so not much artist credit is due!

that was the best nonjoystiq image created in all of the world today. freakin awesome.

after six attempts, my avatar is still unchanged. Is there something special I have to do to get it to change? does it have to be a jpg, a bmp, what?!?! I NEED MY SCREAMING LADY ICON!!!!!!

There's going to be tons of conversation over on wow.com for their variant of the post.

Also. Nice background. d(^_^d)

LOL I LOVE IT, come on guys have you never heard of a running gag? It's freaking HILARIOUS!!!

MUST...WORSHIP...DEAD SPACE...CHICK....

THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND!

THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HEAD!

Wait...

THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! ND

LOUD NOISES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT ARE WE YELLING ABOUT!?!?!?!

this is awesome

It looks like she is about to have a cataclysm sandwhich

that's a good one griffin. I like the subtlety

It's just like Christmas in July!!

it feels like christmas in july if you live in michigan

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