{"id":4308,"date":"2009-08-20T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-planning-new-dungeon-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4308-ea-planning-new-dungeon-keeper","title":{"rendered":"EA planning new Dungeon Keeper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts has recently filed a trademark registration for Dungeon Keeper. The listing can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States Patent and Trademark Office website<\/a>, and gives some weight to rumors that EA is planning on refreshing a number of old games released by now defunct developer Bullfrog.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the trademark listing does not reveal any information on whether or not a game is actually being planned, and it is quite possible that EA is simply looking to protect the IP for possible future development. However, given the popularity of the franchise, it would hardly come as a surprise if EA was looking to reinvigorating the series.<\/p>\n<p>Bullfrog was responsible for some of the best franchises and games of the 90s, including Theme Hospital, Syndicate and Populous. One of the main creative minds at Bullfrog, Peter Molyneux, left the company after it was purchased by EA in 1995. Molyneux went on to form Lionhead Studios, and Bullfrog was eventually assimilated into EA with the last Bullfrog branded game ever released being the Theme Park expansion; Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>The Dungeon Keeper series was one of Bullfrog&rsquo;s most loved franchises and spanned three games, however, Dungeon Keeper 3 was never released. A sequel would therefore surely sell well, and it would hardly be surprising if EA did in fact have plans for a fourth Dungeon Keeper release.<\/p>\n<p>The original Dungeon Keeper is to this day remembered by many as one of the most unique and interesting RTS games ever made. The game approached the genre from a completely different angle to most free-form RTSs, and combined dark and witty humor with a memorable artistic direction in both the visual as well as the sound department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=2327\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Dungeon Keeper<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mega-publisher files trademark for classic 90s RTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}