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A new trademark filing by Microsoft indicates that the company is working on an online game entitled "Screamride."
Gamespot spotted the filing, which was registered on with the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office on April 9. The filing is for the trademark on the title "Screamride" for the purpose on "Entertainment services, namely, providing an on-line computer game."
Microsoft later issued an official response to Gamespot, which reads: "Microsoft often acquires various trademarks as part of its ongoing business strategy, but beyond that we have no comment."
[Source: Gamespot]
Our Take:I'm sure that Microsoft does acquire trademarks as part of its "ongoing business strategy," but "Screamride" is a pretty specific phrase to trademark if you had no intention of using it to make a game of the same name.
Maybe.... a exciting and exhilarating concept based in air? I dunno...
Screamride sounds like a bad indie garage rock band
Day One Buy!!!!! lol
I'm just putting my money on a kids, haunted theme park, kinect based game.
Screamride! A Kinect game where you film yourself pretending to ride a haunted roller coaster using that new illuminated room thing. Twitch will love it!!!
I seriously hope it's a lot cooler than that.
I'm going to try to convince myself that this could lead to a really cool new game and not a Kinect roller coaster simulator.
Microsoft making a Twisted Metal clone?