Geoff Keighley is probably not opening a portal to hell in any case. Roleplaying recreation followers have desperately linked The Game Awards’ hell statue to a brand new trademark utility filed Tuesday and reported by games publication MP1ST. A regulation agency filed a European trademark application on Tuesday underneath the title Divinity, and the image within the accompanying stylized graphic actually does look acquainted.
Two different trademark purposes, displaying comparable imagery, have been filed alongside the Divinity one. One appears to be like to be of an individual tied up in a spiderweb, and the opposite has a placing similarity, once more, to the image overlaid on the Recreation Awards statue. The trademark utility for Divinity categorizes it underneath laptop recreation applications and online game software program, in addition to books, clothes, board video games, and different “entertainment services.” No different data is on the market within the utility to hyperlink the trademark to both the Recreation Awards statue or to Divinity: Unique Sin and Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios.
Kotaku has reached out to Larian Studios for touch upon the trademark utility and its connection to the Recreation Awards statue. A Larian Studios consultant didn’t point out Divinity: Unique Sin 3, however stated: “We are releasing Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Next Gen but weren’t going to announce it until a bit later, so please keep an eye out!”
Michael Douse, Larian Studios publishing director, also posted to X addressing the rumors,saying “there aren’t currently any plans for a new Divinity Original Sin 3 game but once we are ready to show what we’ve been working on we will.”
Larian Studios introduced in 2024 it’s engaged on two initiatives. All founder Swen Vincke would say, on the time, was that one is codenamed Excalibur. The studio is coming off of the huge success of Baldur’s Gate 3, launched in 2023. However earlier than Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios was finest often called the maker of the Divinity collection, beginning with 2002’s Divine Divinity and its 2004 sequel, Past Divinity. It’s revealed six totally different Divinity video games, in addition to growth packs and enhanced editions of the video games. The final Divinity recreation, Divinity: Unique Sin 2, was launched in 2017. Asked about Divinity: Original Sin 3 in 2024, Vincke wouldn’t say something besides that regardless of the studio’s subsequent recreation is was “different than what you think it is,” but “still familiar.”
The Recreation Awards are simply days away, so it’s unlikely that Larian Studios will say a lot in regards to the trademark utility or its potential hyperlink to the mysterious statue earlier than the massive present. However for a lot of, that doesn’t matter: Persons are nonetheless holding out hope that there’s one thing greater than merely an enhanced model of Divinity: Unique Sin 2 to be introduced at The Recreation Awards on Thursday.
