Computer Game

[MongooseMatt]

I've just seen what the new Call of Duty is sub-titled

 

[Hiromoon]

Sue! Or demand money for Miniatures....






Seriously, WW2 again? After CoD4? Sigh....

 

[rvrratt]

Battlefield Evolution? Spill it Matt!

 

[Sgt. Scream]

Sue! Or demand money for Miniatures....






Seriously, WW2 again? After CoD4? Sigh....

Yes another WW2. And that's for a good reason. Infinity Ward has said they are already making a sequel for Modern Warfare but they want to make it better than CoD4 already was. They can't accomplish it until next year.
Activision has to go ahead with the tradition to release a CoD game every year-so they stick to the second design studio. And they have already started with another WW2 game. And that is why its going to be another WW2 one.

and its called

World At War :shock:

 

[Hiromoon]

Actually, CoD6's going to be done by Infinity Ward, and the guys who did CoD3 are doing CoD5...

Given how CoD3 performed horribly, I'm not holding out hope for CoD5.

 

[DM]

Sue! Or demand money for Miniatures....

No can do - titles aren't subject to copyright

 

[Hiromoon]

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ34.html

Well I'll be darned. Pardon me while I go make money off the name 'Iphone'.

 

[DM]

Ain't the web wonderful?

 

[Hiromoon]

Indeed...

Now announcing: New and improved DM! With DM, all your World War 2 answers at at the touch of a button!

Now, back on CoD5... yeah, they want it to be Gritty. Very gitty apparently, with the opening sequence having a Jap soldier putting his cigarette out in the eye of a prisoner before slitting his throat. Good times.

 

[weasel_fierce]

Give us an axis campaign instead.

Or Finland.

Or Poland 39

Or France 40.

Or anything else than western front 44 in fact

 

[dmccoy1693]

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ34.html

While its not copyright-able, its Trademark-able. (same link as above)

Some brand names, trade names, slogans, and phrases may be entitled to protection under the general rules of law relating to unfair competition, or they may be entitled to protection and registration under the provisions of state or federal trademark laws. The federal trademark statute covers trademarks and service marks—those words, phrases, symbols, or designs that identify the source of the goods or services of one party and distinguish them from those of others. The Copyright Office has no role in these matters.

Emphasis mine.

 

[Iain McGhee]

I'm afraid the Steel Panthers community got there before both of you !

 

[DM]

And I'm sure I remember a set with the same name from the 1980s