A trademark filing by Sony in Europe for Twisted Metal has been discovered.

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Website junkiemonkeys.com unearthed the trademark filing on the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market website. The filing is for a community trade mark, or CTM, for classes 9, 28, and 41, which are computer games, toys, and electronic game services provided by the internet, respectively.The last Twisted Metal game was 2012's PS3 game of the same title. The series debuted in 1995 on the original PlayStation with Twisted Metal. Which is a bit confusing. Other games in the series that aren't simply named "Twisted Metal" include 2001's Twisted Metal: Black for PS2 and 2005's Twisted Metal: Head On for the PlayStation Portable .On the junkiemonkeys website, the author points out that the trademark filing is not a guarantee that Sony is working on a new Twisted Metal game, but rather an indication that the company is, at the very least, interested in protecting the name. recent lapse in Sony's trademark for The Last Guardian popped up last week, with Sony confirming that the game was still in development. We've reached out to Sony to see if it has any comment on what this trademark filing may mean for the Twisted Metal franchise.What would you like to see in a hypothetical PS4 version of the game? We want to hear about it in the comments.

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