Nintendo has extended its trademark for horror title Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem.
Originally released on the GameCube in 2002, Eternal Darkness was a third-person horror game which, while not a huge commercial success, was widely praised by gamers and critics alike for its story and effective horror elements, particularly the “sanity effects”, some of which saw the game try to unsettle the player by breaking the fourth wall.
Eternal Darkness was developed by Silicon Knights, and while there was talk of a sequel potentially being created at the studio, Silicon Knights later experienced a number of serious problems including the commercial underperformance of the long-in-development Too Human and a failed lawsuit against Epic Games, all of which led to mass redundancies at the studio and the reduction of its number of staff to apparently only a handful of people.
While Nintendo’s extension of the Eternal Darkness trademark does bring up the possibility of the game experiencing some form of rerelease or follow-up, another potential explanation could simply involve the company not wanting to let go of the trademark.
[Via: CVG]