{"id":129424,"date":"2022-11-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140375"},"modified":"2022-11-02T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:30:00","slug":"trademarks-for-suda51-and-swerys-horror-game-hotel-barcelona-registered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/02\/trademarks-for-suda51-and-swerys-horror-game-hotel-barcelona-registered\/","title":{"rendered":"Trademarks For Suda51 And Swery&#8217;s Horror Game &#8216;Hotel Barcelona&#8217; Registered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b35d28864721b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b35d28864721b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Deadly Premonition 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b35d28864721b\/deadly-premonition-2.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b35d28864721b\/deadly-premonition-2.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Deadly Premonition 2\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Rising Star Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remember when two of the most creative game producers and directors \u2014 Goichi Suda (Suda51 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/no_more_heroes\">No More Heroes<\/a> fame) and Hidetaka \u2018Swery\u2019 Suehiro (creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/deadly_premonition_origins\">Deadly Premonition<\/a>) got together and said they wanted to make a horror game together? That was way back in 2019, and while the pair have since reiterated that the game, <strong>Hotel Barcelona,<\/strong> is still on, there&#8217;s not been a lot of movement. Until today.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/new-trademarks-have-been-filed-for-the-horror-game-from-suda51-and-swery65\/\">VGC reports<\/a> that trademarks for Hotel Barcelona were filed back on 25th March 2022 in Japan, and on 27th October this year internationally, though the latter is still pending. The trademarks were filed under Swery&#8217;s company, White Owls, so we&#8217;re hoping something is happening behind the curtain there!<\/p>\n<p>Hotel Barcelona was revealed on an <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/10\/23\/no-more-heroes-deadly-premonition-creators-team-up-for-a-horror-game-suda-swery-hotel-barcelona\">IGN Japan stream back in October 2019<\/a>, where the two creators came together and \u2014 almost randomly \u2014 announced their desire to work together to create a horror game. It was pretty&#8230; spontaneous, as though the two were ironing out the kinks in front of everyone.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"No More Heroes III and Deadly Premonition 2, the last games from Suda51 and Swery respectively.\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47fade38c8033\/no-more-heroes-iii-and-deadly-premonition-2-the-last-games-from-suda51-and-swery-respectively.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47fade38c8033\/no-more-heroes-iii-and-deadly-premonition-2-the-last-games-from-suda51-and-swery-respectively.445x.jpg\" alt=\"No More Heroes III and Deadly Premonition 2, the last games from Suda51 and Swery respectively.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"No More Heroes III and Deadly Premonition 2, the last games from Suda51 and Swery respectively.\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6a6fdab01c416\/no-more-heroes-iii-and-deadly-premonition-2-the-last-games-from-suda51-and-swery-respectively.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6a6fdab01c416\/no-more-heroes-iii-and-deadly-premonition-2-the-last-games-from-suda51-and-swery-respectively.445x.jpg\" alt=\"No More Heroes III and Deadly Premonition 2, the last games from Suda51 and Swery respectively.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/no_more_heroes_iii\">No More Heroes III<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/deadly_premonition_2_a_blessing_in_disguise\">Deadly Premonition 2<\/a>, the last games from Suda51 and Swery respectively. \u2014 <em class=\"credit\">Images: Grasshopper Manufacture, Rising Star Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>Games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps2\/siren\" class=\"external\">Siren<\/a>, the cult PS2 horror game, were brought up, as was an idea for the plot \u2014 the game will potentially follow a magazine writer who is visiting a &#8220;hip new hotel&#8221;, and events would unravel from there. Well&#8230; given the pedigree behind the game, we&#8217;re intrigued! The pair also specifically mentioned the Switch as a good &#8220;light and easy to play&#8221; machine for their game. Horror and easy to play? We&#8217;ll have to see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think this trademark means anything? Are you excited for the two developers to work together? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Rising Star Games Remember when two of the most creative game producers and directors \u2014 Goichi Suda (Suda51 of No More Heroes fame) and Hidetaka \u2018Swery\u2019 Suehiro (creator of Deadly Premonition) got together and said they wanted to make a horror game together? That was way back in 2019, and while the pair have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}