Zenimax picks up 'Prey' trademark

by Justin McElroy on Sep 8th 2009 1:30PM

Though we heard about a planned follow-up to the gravity-twisting Prey way back in March of 2008, things have been quiet on the game ever since. Now, according to filings found by superannuation, Bethesda parent company Zenimax has acquired the rights to the series.

Does this mean that id Software, which was recently acquired by Bethesda, is collaborating with the publisher on an incredible, post-apocalyptic open-world game filled with Native Americans and disturbingly vaginal doors? Yes. Yes, that's exactly what it means. But you didn't hear it from us.

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Tags: bethesda, Bethesda-Softworks, fps, id-software, prey, prey-2, zenimax

Reader Comments (55)

Those giant vaginas creeped me out. I have enough issues with the real kind.

Yeast infections?

...do Jewish girls get yeast infections or some form of unlevened infection.

+1 to the Shmil.

Looks like this game will have a lot of tight situations.
*ba dum tissh*

i knew i wasnt the only who thought those l;ooked like a pussy and not a very clean one at that

That picture is super gross.

I like vaginas as much as the next straight guy, but bloody yellow ones? Pass.

Not to mention the crabs... look at the size of 'em!

Cut the chatter Red2.

/starwars

Aw, don't explain the reference. Also, chatter is the best part! I.E. Right now!

But if they aren't bloody, how can we call them a vagina?

Actually looks more like the bloody distended end of a phallus... like someone did too much sounding or something. Don't google that. Please. But to the point... that's a really funny looking vay-jay. Look at your member. Now look at the pic.

And why isn't my avatar showing up now?

I see this picture and am reminded of the wisdom of South Park's Mr. Garrison.

"I don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die."

I need to get Prey off my pile of shame. The first ten minutes of it that I watched a buddy play on his PC when it came out was enough to make me want to check it out ever since.

Plus, it's like six bucks at GameStop.

Watch out for the alien vagina's. They are vicious.

I actually really enjoyed it. It brought a few new things to the table and had some really interesting concepts and scenes. Not GOTY material, but pretty good nonetheless.

Right.. and I don't expect it to be GOTY good - just $7.99 good. I've spent that on far worse things.

Do it. I enjoyed the game quite a bit. At $8 it would be a good bargain.

I had a hard time playing it, mostly because the main character seems to be based off of me. Native american, looks exactly like me, is very sarcastic and cynical. It's really eerie, all of my friends have made comments about it as well.

other than that it was a good game

Prey was really good and very disturbing. Great soundtrack and environment. Probably the best game on 360 for a year or so.

Prey is a great game. It's somewhere between BioShock and Halo, with a lot of sweet twists to the gameplay. I sure hope they make that sequel.

IMO, Prey is the best looking game based off the Doom 3 engine, but the gameplay was boring. Since dying in the game results the player to be dropped right where they died, there was no purpose of trying to stay alive. Half way through the game, i found myself to get out of the way of danger since it wouldn't make much of a difference. Plus, it's extremely repetitive, which doesn't help.

Prey is good but the demon organic cyborg crap gets really old and monotonous, especially if youve played Doom 3 and Quake 4. Its a lot better than Doom3 in terms of gameplay but looks exactly like Doom3 and all the other id games because that designer cant seem to do anything else, its too bad they didnt get a different person to design the theme.

You've probably spent $7.99 on worse vagina.

@Eh

Um, what? Prey was made by different people than Doom and Quake.

@ WiredKnight: Doom 3 and Quake 4 had different developers too...

Don't get the game if you like to be challenged in any way shape or form. If the fact that there is even less punishment for "dying" in this game than BioShock doesn't bother you, ya might like it. Personally, I can't play a game if it doesn't challenge me, so I felt like it was a waste of time.

Hell, I'll give you my copy. Seriously. Give me an address. Levisemail1337@gmail.com. I'll seriously mail the game to you for free.

@Levi

Yes, that's technically true, since Quake was made by Raven. But the IP was still originally developed by id, and they used some of Doom 3's assets in Quake 4.

Prey was great. Of course if you don't pace yourself, its all over too quickly. But definately felt more like what Doom 3 shoulda been.

I agree. Decent amount of fun. Short, but fun. Had some really cool scenes and I love the radio voice overs. George Lowe did a great job on those!

Art Bell, not george Lowe.

Oops! What was I thinking? I kept hearing him say "This is George Lowe" in my head and I kept thinking he sounded like Space Ghost.

And I just started playing through the game again, so I fail. Thanks for the correction.

"If course if you don't pace yourself, its all over too quickly."

That's what she said

Not to me she didn't.

I liked Doom 3 better, but there's certainly enough room in this world for both. Looking forward to the sequel. (Hope you don't get 1-upped by Portal again, guys.)

I liked Doom 3 better too. It was less creative, but had more challenge, and was just more fun to me.

i loved the first one (you know, except for the vaginas with crabs crawling through them)
i remember playing the card game on the arcade machines for hours on end trying to get the achievements and screaming "FIVE CARD CHARLIE" every time we got it

bethesda really likes to make things shiny dont they? Every game of theirs has glossy shiny surfaces.

Actually, that screen shot is from the original Prey which Bethesda had nothing to do with.

Also, Fallout 3 was not that shiny. If you want shiny, take a look back at Perfect Dark Zero. Holy crap everything in that game was either too dark, glowing, or shiny.

This was one of my first 360 games (I fell in LOVE with the demo). This was one of the best games for the 360 when this came out, and it holds up. It is a very creative, and enjoyable game.

I would buy a sequal in a heartbeat.

That's a nasty looking pussy on the wall. They didn't even have to create that they just took a pic of some random hooker's VaJayJay!

Didnt know that. I dont pay much attention to who publishes what. My mistake. looks like a game they would have made though.

I wonder if Human Head will have anything to do with a sequel. It would be a shame if they weren't brought in to work on it.

Anything as long as they have a protagonist who doesn't make me angry or cringe anytime he opens his damn mouth or a cliché plot twist that was about as surprising/touching as getting dirt on your shoes.

The actual game itself was fun and had some nice stuff going on, but if it was finished faster after being shown in 98, god damn, that would've been revolutionary and not just solid.

...why?

why what?

Is that supposed to be some pro-abstinence poster?

Giant vaginas aside, I really liked this game.

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