Elden Ring trademarks goes through "change of ownership" that sees FromSoftware fully own its magnum opus
Feb. 16, 2024Bandai Namco is still on publishing duties
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DeveloperFromSoftwarenow fully owns the trademark to its open world opusElden Ring, after previously sharing ownership with publisher Bandai Namco.
While Bandai Namco isn’t totally out of the picture - the company even updated its Elden RingYouTubeplaylist recently - this change in ownership could signal FromSoftware’s growing ambitions. The heavyweight studio recently planned toexpand in size, potentially gearing up to self-publish its future slate following investments from Sony and Tencent.
FromSoftware’s parent company even mentioned plansto kickstart the studio’s self-publishing effortsin the next few years, after publishing deals withSony(who own the Bloodborne IP),Activision(who published Sekiro outside of Japan), and, of course, Bandai Namco (Armored Core, Dark Souls). We’ll see how this affects the studio’s future games, if at all, soon.
The Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is presumably the studio’s next project slated for release. Details are scarce on the nebulous expansion, but it’s seeminglyentering its final phases of production. Only FromSoft could drop a teaser image, set community theories ablaze, and then go radio silent for months. I bet it’ll be worth the wait anyway.
In the meantime,Elden Ring might receive a gacha game in the vein of Genshin Impact.
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