Zenimax Media has renewed a trademark for a product referred to as Spyteam, a long-rumoured title that has beforehand surfaced in the identical means. Spyteam does sound a tiny bit just like the sort of present my 5 year-old would watch, although it additionally suggests a multiplayer focus—and naturally it is all the time fairly amusing when one thing associated to espionage is discovered.
The brand new utility was noticed by Twitter consumer SkullziTV (thanks, PCGN): the appliance was filed by ZeniMax on January 28, 2022.
Spyteam, a secret Bethesda recreation that appears to have been within the works for a while now, just lately had its trademark utility filed for 2022. Might we lastly discover out what this recreation is later within the yr?#Bethesda #Xbox pic.twitter.com/WVMDixotR5March 6, 2022
Spyteam first got here to mild in 2018 due to the same trademark submitting, and a number of other components level in the direction of it being a Bioware Austin title. Austin can also be chargeable for Fallout 76, however again then it was transferring on from a cancelled multiplayer recreation referred to as Battlecry. In reality, the studio had been referred to as Battlecry Studios. Battlecry was a “32-person on-line multiplayer fight recreation” initially scheduled to launch in 2015, and had designer Viktor Antonov hooked up—finest identified for his work on Half-Life 2 and Dishonored. It by no means surfaced.
Whether or not what Battlecry was bears any relation to what Spyteam can be stays to be seen, however job listings for the studio verify it is engaged on no less than one unannounced title. Austin shouldn’t be the one choice nonetheless: Bethesda Montreal can also be engaged on one thing, as is Roundhouse Studios (previously Human Head Studios).