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]

Source

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

Reader Comments (60)

oh man this has had me laughing all day!

This had me laughing since I got home at 2 MST and realized what I'd been missing all day. Stupid work!

Go for it!

I mean, i used a website to make it, not much artistic credit is due..
;)

and to think i was gonna play Chrono Trigger all day, Joystiq comes and ruins it xD
demanding MOAR deadspace chick!

I know! I'm going through friggin withdraw ova here!

This is fantastic. I hope this never ends and no one talks about anything except Dead Space chick ever again.

yep, thats me

I was wondering how they'd fit it into this..

Exciting because it could indicate a post-apocalyptic game from Blizzard. Less exciting because the "cataclysm" will most likely be some sort of global warming nonsense to appease the apostles of the vogue religion, rather than something which could actually happen, like nuclear/biological war, plague, etc.