Report: The Last Guardian Trademark ‘Abandoned’

Listings suggest that the trademark for Sony’s long-in-development The Last Guardian has become “abandoned.” According to a status update on Trademarkia, “On Monday, August 6, 2012, status on the The Last Guardian trademark changed to Abandoned - No Statement of Use Filed.”

The Last Guardian was originally announced way back in 2009 and has continually been delayed since. It was originally set for holiday 2011 then pushed into 2012 last year. Executive producer Yoshifusa Hayama left Sony and was soon followed by creator Fumito Ueda.

Ueda said he was “committed to completing” the game in a freelance capacity and while rumors briefly indicated that the game had been canceled, Sony later reported it was still “making progress.”

After missing TGS 2011 and being absent from E3 2012, we last heard from Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida that The Last Guardian is “still in development.”

We’ve reached out to Sony for comment about the trademark and will update with any comment we receive. For more on The Last Guardian, listen to our thoughts on Podcast Beyond.

Source: PlayStation LifeStyle

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Is Reality Racers Coming to PlayStation Vita?

Gaming site Siliconera has extracted some interesting information from Japanese trademark filings indicating that Sony may be working on a game called Reality Racer. Depending on if you liked the Vita launch game Reality Fighters -- we certainly didn’t -- this may or may not be good news… at least if the two games are connected.

All Siliconera dug up was that Sony indeed filed the trademark, and for the time being, the trademark only appears in Japan. Whether or not it’s related to Reality Fighters still remains to be seen. We’ve reached out to Sony for comment and will update if and when we hear more.

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