Microsoft seeking Galactic Reign

Hey look, a teaser!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Z7w0TYZN0

EA can have "Paper, scissors, stone"... I always call it "Rock, paper, scissors" anyway.

As long as it's only for a specific name/set of names for a series, it's all good... Once they start letting people copyright anything with the words "The" in it's gonna get silly.

I hope it can live up to such a neat name. RIP Ensemble btw.

Agreed...Freelancer IS the best open ended sandbox space game I've played...moddable and adaptable...if only they'd just brought it back and expanded it...oh boy! Oh boy!

I loved MS' Freelancer.  If they'd release something similar I'd snap it up.  I wish they were less stingy with their back catalog and would release Freelancer and others on Steam or GoG.

SPOCK!

no one saw this coming, I knew they've been training their space marines through videogames. yes I only read the title.

Someday all the Good names will be copyrighted and it will become impossible to come up with any good new title names.

I think I'll copyright "rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock".

Said it once and I'll say it a million times, IT IS STUPID TO LEGALLY CLAIM OWNERSHIP TO A WORD OR NOUN. Only exception is if a name blatantly rips off from another franchise.

Is this some greed hunter way for corporations to plant legal landmines under each other? 

Next time I play Mario party and I land on a trap space. then hammer bro comes in outta nowhere and pegs me til -10 coins appear over my head, i'll know what to compare it to.

If they said this is the name of Bungie's new project, I wouldn't be surprised, but that's Activision so whatever.

And I imagine MS has been looking to reign supreme for ages. When we advance to the point where space exploration and development is commonplace and corporate ownership of galactic resources becomes every day news...we're so going to see an Armored Core scenario and MS will be a major player.

That's all fine and good, but there should have been some kind of allusion in all of this to something much more auspicious such as references to domination of The Galaxy or something similar. This could have been a bit more ambiguously-accusatory and I think it should have been...

Hail Xenu.

Lets hope this isn't like their reign over netscape again. Lets hope that console online play stays the same and isn't controlled by M$

So this is how the First Galactic empire is born :P 

OHH GOD YAHTZEE WAS CORRECT !!!!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8-Halo-3

(watch the ending) THIS IS THE FIRST STEP !!!!!

Bill gates was brought here by aliens. I'm a genius.

Leaving his secret spacecraft, Bill Gates was overheard saying.. "They will pay the price for their lack of vision!!"

I hope the Klingons respect these trademarks. If not, God help us all. 

I'm actually starting to get kinda curious.

Wait, no. It'll probably disappoint anyway.

How idiotic.

ever wonder if Bill Gates is a reptilian, hes so god damn rich!!!!

EA is trying to patent the phrase "Paper, Scissors, Stone?" RIDICULOUS!!! That's right up there with Apple trying to patent the air you breath.

" Microsoft seeking Galactic Reign". And that kids, is how the Empire was born.

Just look at that picture...

We cannot be alone out there!

One can only hope it's the name of the new Xbox,

Of course they are... that's what Evil Empires do!

:P

I just filed trademarked IS if you want to use you better give me some cash!

Cool picture. I love space.

Watch it incorporate Dis-Kinect..

These trademark names do not bring me a lot of hope.

Nice headline - for a second there I thought MS was going for actual galactic domination.

All hail to the great Bill Gates!

MS making a EVE ONLINE CLONE?