[Moz La Punk]

The Dutch website Gamer.nl has looked through the filed trademarks from Sony studios and they found out that Evolution Studios (of Motorstorm fame) have registered the trademark 'Drive Club'.

Source

They filed the trademark on February 13th 2012 through the website of United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, serial number 85540921). Earlier there were already rumors of a new racegame from Evolution Studios so this fits in nicely.

The source is in Dutch so I've extracted all information I could extract from the news item.

Hopefully we'll hear more about this game at the Sony conference today!

Apologies if old or not thread-worthy.

UPDATE: Trademark taken offline. That was fast!

[Kyon]

2 more hours

[SuperSonic1305]

Evolution making a racing game. News at eleven.

[Tagg9]

Sounds legit. Time to go dark for three more hours.

[twinturbo2]

This could be that game that was going to wear the Gran Turismo branding before Polyphony said no.

And this could be the game that the Project Gotham Racing lead coder is working on.

Someone hold me, I'm shivering from the potential awesomeness.

[Aquamarine]

The first rule of Drive Club is...

[Johnbig]

It begins.

[Derrick01]

2 more hours

3 hours.

[AAK]

2 more hours

Don't you mean 3?

[Pai Pai Master]

Blehhh I wanna see Gran Turismo 6, no other racing game will suffice!

[Baconsammy]

There is only one rule of Drive Club...

Don't make any more bad Motorstorm games?

[Moz La Punk]

And here is the link to the Drive Club patent.

[Zombie James]

I'm secretly hoping for a new Motorstorm, but anything from this studio should be interesting.

[GeoramA]

God dammit. Plz don't leak...

[Johnbig]

Don't make any more bad Motorstorm games?

Seriously?

[Kyon]

3 hours.

>_<

[twinturbo2]

If this game is 1/1000000000000000000000th as good as PGR, this might be a system seller for me.

Between this and the rumored PGRV, I may have a reason to keep gaming in the next generation...

[Zen_Arcade]

Evolution making a racing game. News at eleven.

At least its a new racing game.

[Aquamarine]

3 hours.

2 hours and 48 minutes.

[FourMyle]

I am going to laugh if they show off another CGI trailer like Motorstorm's.

[J-Rzez]

God dammit. Plz don't leak...

Just go on a media black out for 3hrs, it's the only way...

[Baconsammy]

Seriously?

Yes, seriously. I think the Motorstorm series sucks. I'm glad they're moving on to something else, and I'll be there day 1 to see if its an improvement.

[Pistolero]

Don't make any more bad Motorstorm games?

You've been trying too hard lately... :)

[jiggle]

3 more hours...

[MikeE21286]

Absolutely hate the title.

Pumped for the game though.

[MasterBalls]

I would really love a Fight Club karting game.

Play as;
Tyler Durden
The Narrator
Bob
Marla Singer
An anamorphic block of soap

[BlazinAm]

Don't make any more bad Motorstorm games?

Seriously?

They made one bad one.

[Geek]

Application Filing Date: Feb. 13, 2012

So, just about a year old.

[jello44]

Blehhh I wanna see Gran Turismo 6, no other racing game will suffice!

There will be a GT6, in 2018.

[ascii42]

This could be that game that was going to wear the Gran Turismo branding before Polyphony said no. And this could be the game that the Project Gotham Racing lead coder is working on. Someone hold me, I'm shivering from the potential awesomeness.

Sounds reasonable.

Sounds awesome.

[Vol5]

Evolution are frickin' awesome devs. This will be an above average game.

[Parallax]

i thought that it might be a reboot of the jaguar game, but thats club drive. so im optimistic

[Pistolero]

Dark City! I approve, kind sir!

[RSTEIN]

Sounds like something similar to Forza Horizon.

[btkadams]

Don't make any more bad Motorstorm games?

There was never a bad motorstorm game.

[mysteriousmage09]

Stupid as hell title.

[Smiles and Cries]

yes! Racing games are the reason I want a PS4 :)

[Moz La Punk]

Trademark seems to be offline now?!

[dallow_bg]

Sounds like the first party F2P game.

[FonkyByNature]

Don't make any more bad Motorstorm games?

Lucky for you, they never made a bad Motorstorm game and probably never will.

[Hoo-doo]

Dudes from Bizarre Creations are working at Evolution now?

Someone hold me. PGR3 and PGR4 were the absolute pinnacle of arcade racing.

[~Devil Trigger~]

Yes, seriously. I think the Motorstorm series sucks. I'm glad they're moving on to something else, and I'll be there day 1 to see if its an improvement.

...

[shagg_187]

Stupid as hell title.

Sounds like a golfing game...

Could've easily released it under Motorstorm name. That or if Polyphony wasn't so butthurt about the name Gran Turismo...

[Baconsammy]

Dudes from Bizarre Creations are working at Evolution now? Someone hold me. PGR3 and PGR4 were the absolute pinnacle of arcade racing.

I think they're split out across several devs now. Aren't some of them at Playground also?

[Acquiescence]

3 more hours...

Dark City? I don't get it.

[Loudninja]

Dudes from Bizarre Creations are working at Evolution now? Someone hold me. PGR3 and PGR4 were the absolute pinnacle of arcade racing.

They have members from Studio Liverpool as well.

[Graphics Horse]

This could be that game that was going to wear the Gran Turismo branding before Polyphony said no. And this could be the game that the Project Gotham Racing lead coder is working on.

No doubt.
Not sure about 'Drive Club' though, will it be the name of the game or a community aspect?

[Mr_eX]

At first I thought this said Club Drive and I got really excited that they were rebooting that Jaguar classic

[shagg_187]

On second thought, it sounds like a feature and not a game, similar to that of Autolog.

EDIT: Anyone has a copy of the trademark?

[noobasuar]

Sounds like some super casual driving game...

I wonder if Sony will try to push a'lot of casual IP's on us.