Electronic Arts has secured a trademark for the name “Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville”.
The filing – which popped up on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office records earlier in the week (thanks, Gematsu and @the_marmolade) – doesn’t offer any further information, sadly, other than its been filed against the NICE classifications 9 and 41.
The classifications are predictable enough; the former is categorised as “a computer game software; Downloadable computer game software via a global computer network and wireless devices; Video game software”, whereas the latter, 41, is described as “entertainment services, namely, providing temporary use of non-downloadable game software; provision of information relating to electronic computer games provided via the Internet”.
What does this mean? Well, trademarks alone don’t mean anything, quite honestly – just because something’s been trademarked doesn’t mean it’ll come to fruition – but in this case, it’s plausible our next foray with Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare will be called Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville (which, incidentally, is the name of the locations given in the Plants vs. Zombies comics). And if the information revealed to investors earlier this year is still correct, we suspect it’ll arrive before the end of this financial year in March 2020.