The Ripper trademarks filled

  • Posted October 6th, 2009 at 19:17 EDT by Adam Dolge
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Electronic Arts has recently filed two trademarks for the use of “The Ripper” in a computer game or other ‘entertainment service.’ The title is likely a Visceral Games project, which was teased by an anonymous source from EA to the LA Times in July.

The new trademark applications were apparently filed by EA at the end of August, according to Superannaution. “The Ripper,” which would be based on the 19th century British serial killer, was originally spotted by Ben Fritz of the LA Times.

Fritz wrote that “two sources close to EA told The Times that Visceral’s next game would be Jack the Ripper, based on the 19th century British serial killer. It’s not clear what the game would involve, but it’s a natural follow-up of sorts to Dante’s Inferno, which is also based on copyright-free historical material.”

The concept of a game based on Jack the Ripper is certainly interesting, and we look forward to hearing more.

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  1. Kyaw | kyaw25

    • 7:20pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    Killing Prostitues as the main theme in the game?

     

    Hmmm... GTA was different though.

  2. -Raven

    • 7:21pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    LOL A video game based off an actual serial killer! Nice!!

  3. polebull

    • 7:22pm BST - October 6th, 2009

     "Ripper" could potentially be awesome...but i dont know how theyre going to pitch a game where you murder women...if anyone can EA can!

  4. chattanova

    • 7:34pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    A detective game? To catch Jack maybe?

     

  5. Sonyfanboy-uk | Bloodfang-UK

    • 7:41pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    reminds of a serical killer game ages ago that was based on jason but it never got off the ground and im guessing this wont ever, the god squad and moms will be all over this:(

  6. -Raven

    • 7:45pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    ^  a what kind of killer??

  7. taurus82 | taurus82

    • 8:13pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    Hopefully it will star McFarlane Monsters' version of Ol' Jack.

  8. PSX_Legend | KillZone3000

    • 8:28pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    lol i guess everything goes on to videogame these days.

  9. Sackman23

    • 8:37pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    this is insane really now. a game about a serial killer. my guess is it will be about being a detective still sounds like a lame game

  10. Stevie | XxSteviexX

    • 8:42pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    I can't wait till

    Jeffrey Dahmer: The Video Game

  11. Beasley2K | Beasley2K

    • 9:33pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    Visceral Games seems to be doing good so far: Dead Space; Dante's Inferno; and The Ripper. Visceral seems to be set for a bunch of truly original grusomely violent games!

    I can't wait to see what they come up with in the future!

    EDIT: @1 LOL!

  12. Jules909 | jules909

    • 10:41pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    After the gem that was Dead Space and Dante's Inferno looking promising, this too could be great too.

  13. Drew1987

    • 11:56pm BST - October 6th, 2009

    First of all, there is a typo in the title of this article but the same word is spelled correctly in the first sentence of this article.  "Filled" should be "Filed"

    Second,  Jack the Ripper is thought to be fictional and not a real serial killer but there are websites and other sources out there that will dispute this.  So its more of a legend than an actual "Based on a true story" type game.

     

  14. Sablerage

    • 1:11am BST - October 7th, 2009

     a game about killing hookers. we already have GTA for that

  15. tetsuo2k8

    • 3:59am BST - October 7th, 2009

    It could be nice if we can choose between being the ripper or the detective !!!

     

  16. SSSOLWAY

    • 9:42am BST - October 7th, 2009

    Yeah they should trademark - RIPPEROFFER - as a slogan for the pspgo

  17. arfi-gorgona-O

    • 10:09am BST - October 7th, 2009

    There was a game on the PC before,but it was an andventure game.

  18. Sackman23

    • 6:47pm BST - October 7th, 2009

    lmao @ 16

  19. doomsday666

    • 5:17am BST - October 8th, 2009

    wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. Beasley2K | Beasley2K

    • 5:43pm BST - October 8th, 2009

    Yeah, and the term a**wipe should be trademarked for use on SSSOLWAY only.

  21. stovich | TasteLikeBurning

    • 4:14pm BST - October 9th, 2009

    Another one of EAs "alternate story" projects is all we need. Especially since the first one isn't even released yet. NEXT!!!!!

  22. Fingal_D | Fingal_D

    • 9:21pm BST - October 9th, 2009

    hmm why? um... nevermind -_-

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