{"id":63178,"date":"2014-04-09T08:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63178"},"modified":"2014-04-09T08:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T06:50:04","slug":"blizzard-files-new-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63178-blizzard-files-new-trademark","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard files new trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has <a href=\"http:\/\/tsdr.uspto.gov\/documentviewer?caseId=sn86239314&amp;docId=APP20140404074104#docIndex=0&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">filed a trademark<\/a> for &#8220;Overwatch&#8221; &#8211; possibly the name of an upcoming title from the crew that brought us\u00a0Diablo, Hearthstone, StarCraft, and World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.blizzard.com\/en-us\/company\/careers\/directory.html#region=Americas\" target=\"_blank\">recruitment page<\/a>\u00a0also makes mention of an unannounced title. Coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>The game makers have made\u00a0multiple comments recently about breaking off into smaller teams to work on new kinds of games with a faster turnover, such as\u00a0Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft &#8211; its collectible card game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started up a new development team because we kind of recognised that we needed to have this ability to be more experimental, experiment with different types of games than what we were doing with our big, core franchises,\u201d Jason Chayes said in a recent interview about\u00a0Hearthstone.<\/p>\n<p>A new Blizzard game might be on the cards &#8211; are you excited? What are your predictions? Let us know in the comments and the forum.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2014\/04\/09\/blizzard-trademarks-overwatch-is-hiring-for-unannounced-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG27\/7<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63123-bruce-lee-coming-to-ufc.html\">Bruce Lee coming to UFC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63131-flockers-from-worms-developer-team17.html\">Flockers from Worms developer Team17<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63137-dgl-2014-winter-registrations-go-live.html\">DGL 2014 Winter registrations go live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could there be a new game in the works?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":52145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,665,467,10096],"class_list":["post-63178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-new-game","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63180,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178\/revisions\/63180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}