Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you some excellent investigatory work from Chris Hawke over at SystemLink. It seems that he noted an old Zenimax trademark for “Dishonored” from 2007 and then found a little pile of domains registered in February of this year. He’s added up both his twos and seems to have come to the conclusion that they amount to a fairly obvious four: there’s a new project well underway at one of Zenimax’s developers.
The newly registered domains are the dot-com and dot-net variations of DishonoredGame and DishonoredTheGame and since the trademark in question refers explicitly to “computer game programs” I think we’re safe in the assumption that there is something brewing at Zenimax that we’re yet to hear about.
The trademark in question stretched back to before the Zenimax acquisition of ID Software, back when they were most well known to us as Bethesda’s parent company. Since that time, ID isn’t the only developer that has been tucked firmly under Zenimax’s wing but everyone seems to be accounted for with projects on the go already. Of course, Zenimax have their MMO division that was also set up in 2007 and Arkane Studios, another recent acquisition, are working on an RPG which has yet to receive a name. Perhaps they’ll call it Dishonored?
Source: SystemLink
Fat Goose Chris
I wish they’d spell it properly for our release (DishonoUred, the English English way, not the American English way).
Deathbrin
Makes me wonder which is the International English way?
jayjay119
American English is considered International English, to my dismay, considering it is a poor mans version of the proper language (No offense intended to any Americans here). Yes, I admit it, I’m a language snob, but then I’m a language student, I have that right! And that is why it won’t be spelt the correct way when it is released here.
thebadrash
American English is perfectly fine. In many ways, it’s actually an older variant of English, basing its spelling on a time when English eschewed the extra (French) ‘u’s in words like honour, valour etc. These were added to British English after the point of divergence.
Similarly the term ‘fall’ for autumn was common usage in Elizabethan England, but has more or less vanished now.
I’m English, and a managing editor on a website, and I have no problem whatsoever with American spellings. I reckon those of you who are such sticklers for what is actually a newer variant should probably relax and enjoy the fact that you speak such a beautiful language, the main strength of which is its lack of academy rules.
Dany2Step
^YES^
what that guy said!
although i still grudge the popularization of the word ‘addicting’ over the traditional ‘addictive’, its an insta-trigger.
Foxhound
Deerstalker and magnifying glass must have been see…..
gideon1451
To answer the question posed by the title: spelled wrong.
bacon_nuts
I couldn’t even find the spelling mistake in the US spelt Dishonoured. Looking forward to my A level results :P
Crocadillian
Anyone thinks the name suggests more medieval style uninspired garbage? :3
The Lone Steven
It sounds like a medievil/Toliken inspired game. I can’t rember the term for anything that is inspired by Tolkien and i can’t spell his name. I wonder if it was just an idea ID was thinking of but when they were brought by ZeniMax, they were told to drop it? I have to admit that the name is a bit rubbish. What if it was a working name for Rage?