CCP Games trademark filing hints at new game: DUST 514

by James Egan Aug 4th 2009 at 3:30PM

Filed under: Horror, Sci-fi, EVE Online, MMO industry, New titles, Opinion, Rumors

What does "DUST 514" have to do with EVE Online? That's something we're very curious to know at Massively. A recent trademark filing from CCP Games for DUST 514, submitted by Atlanta-based attorney Steven M. Kushner, is described as providing 'entertainment services' and an 'on-line computer game'.

If you look at the logo of a gas mask above a striped pattern, it bears more than a passing resemblance to the EVE Online logo. The trademark filing description reads: "The mark consists of a masked face with white sunken eyes and a round opening at the mouth. There are two parallel thick lines on either side of the jaw of the face which are a parallel to a third line which runs across the bottom of the face and dips into a V at the center." Definitely not a coincidence.

Then again... "DUST" is like ashes, right? And the "V"... we do know there's a World of Darkness MMO on the way. Could it be?

There's also been mention of an EVE-themed first person shooter in the works and we know they've been hiring developers for a console game. Most likely these questions will all be answered at GDC Europe next month, when CCP Games is expected to reveal their next project.

So what do you think, is DUST 514 connected with EVE Online or are we seeing something connected with World of Darkness?

[Thanks Rhys!]

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Landeyda said on 3:44PM 8-04-2009

While I would love this to be news of a World of Darkness MMO, I just don't see it. The only thing I could possibly link it to is the Wrym, and that's a stretch. Then again it's been about ten years since I've played World Of Darkness table-top games, so much has likely changed.

mysecretid said on 4:02PM 8-04-2009

Yet another post-apocalyptic MMORPG?

EVE on the ground, after the nuke-out, sorta-kinda?

Perhaps it will be set on one of the worlds featured in EVE Online? Two MMORPGs set in the same fictional universe ...

EVE fans may well glee themselves to death if this last is true.

Firebreak said on 6:07PM 8-04-2009

I don't think that it will be a mmorpg or a mmofps, just a fps.

Pizzini said on 4:11PM 8-04-2009

It has definitely got hints of the eve logo. The wings resemble Es and there's the clear v in the middle. The gas mask and name are reminiscent of a fallout-esque post-apoc setting. Perhapse just a desert planet from the EVE universe. The face there gives me the impression of a more personal-level experience.

I say its a first/third person game set on a deserty planet from the Eve Universe.

derella said on 4:15PM 8-04-2009

It doesn't seem very World of Darkness-y to me. I'm guessing it will be the Eve FPS. The mask could be their version of a space marine.

Winged Nazgul said on 4:16PM 8-04-2009

Sounds like the FPS game set in the Eve Universe CCP had announced they were working on.

mko said on 4:36PM 8-04-2009

I'm guessing it will be a FPS set on Caldari prime. You'll play as Gallente.

Cyron said on 5:52PM 8-04-2009

I think you've probably got it mko. That's where the fiction has been leading people recently, and that would explain the facemask...

vimes said on 7:53PM 8-04-2009

I say MMORTS!! The server architecture is there and the story also - they have always alluded to strategy and RTS elements - perfect chance to step up *grin*

Mr.Woodstock said on 7:44PM 8-04-2009

I say it's going to be FPS based on the eve story ... walking in stations ... or a mmorpg based on walking in stations.

Temploiter said on 7:56PM 8-04-2009

Please let it be a sequel that runs side-by-side with the current EVE game but only it's ground combat with all new start-from-scratch ground-based skill trees. Kinda like what JTL was to SWG but in reverse. PLEASE!!

Evi said on 11:42AM 8-05-2009

I really don't see a World of Darkness connection with that image.

DataShade said on 9:25AM 8-06-2009

I've played most of the World of Darkness games, and I can't see any connection between that image and WoD, so I'm going with EVE FPS as well. Perhaps mercenaries, with vacuum-proof space environment suits for ship-to-ship combat, hostile boarding actions, etc?

Obsidian Hawk said on 12:52AM 8-25-2009

Dust 514, will be directly linked to CCP's mmo of EvE online. It will complete the circle of full scale of warfare within the universe. While the ships of EvE online will be battling it out in space, and the atmospheres of planets. Dust 514 will be taking place on the ground as ground forces will fight for control over a planet. The players of EvE online will be able to set up contracts and missions for their Dust 514 counterparts to carry out while the EvE pilots carry out their own missions. The idea of this may seem staggering and hard to grasp, but it is very innovative and will be worth looking into.