{"id":98456,"date":"2019-08-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/game_freak_trademark_hints_at_new_name_for_switch_rpg_town"},"modified":"2019-08-14T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:00:00","slug":"game-freak-trademark-hints-at-new-name-for-switch-%ef%bb%bfrpg-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/game-freak-trademark-hints-at-new-name-for-switch-%ef%bb%bfrpg-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Freak Trademark Hints At New Name For Switch \ufeffRPG, Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b948d108f6086\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b948d108f6086\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Town\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b948d108f6086\/town.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b948d108f6086\/town.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Town\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Japanese game developer Game Freak, known as the primary developer of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a><\/strong> series, has applied for a new trademark in its home region.<\/p>\n<p>The trademark is for &#8216;Little Town Hero&#8217;, and covers both the English and Japanese (\u30ea\u30c8\u30eb\u30bf\u30a6\u30f3\u30d2\u30fc\u30ed) versions of that phrase. You can see the trademark for yourself below (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/japanesenintendo.com\/2019\/08\/14\/little-town-hero-trademark\/\">JapaneseNintendo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Although it would be purely speculation at this point, we&#8217;d say it&#8217;s pretty safe to assume that this will be the final name for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/town\">Town<\/a><\/strong>, the studio&#8217;s upcoming RPG for Nintendo Switch. Promotional materials for Town have always noted that it is a working title, so a name-change wouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we&#8217;ll hear more about the game itself, complete with this potential new name, over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you looking forward to Town, or should we say, &#8216;Little Town Hero&#8217;? We&#8217;ll make sure to update you with any new info on this one as it arrives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese game developer Game Freak, known as the primary developer of the Pok\u00e9mon series, has applied for a new trademark in its home region. The trademark is for &#8216;Little Town Hero&#8217;, and covers both the English and Japanese (\u30ea\u30c8\u30eb\u30bf\u30a6\u30f3\u30d2\u30fc\u30ed) versions of that phrase. You can see the trademark for yourself below (thanks, JapaneseNintendo). Although it [&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-98456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98456","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=98456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}