Nintendo’s strength has always been developing family friendly games, and they recently admitted that the marketing focus for the 2013 festive period was children and their parents. This focus on a family audience may need to take a backseat for at least one project if Nintendo don’t wish to lose the trademark of one of their most popular GameCube era franchises. Eternal Darkness was developed by former Nintendo second party developer Silicon Knights, and released on the GameCube after starting life as a Nintendo 64 title. Fans have long wanted there to be a follow up, but the prospect of this happening seemed unlikely after Nintendo and Silicon Knights parted ways after the release of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Hopes were raised that a spiritual successor to the game titled Shadow Of The Eternals would come out after several of the original games developers tried to raise money for the project though crowd funding. The high target weren’t met and that project appears to be dead in the water. A document from The United States Patent and Trademark Office has emerged which reveals that Nintendo have been given six months in which to file a statement of use of the Eternal Darkness trademark or risk losing it. They may file for extensions a total of five times, giving them a total of thirty six months to use the Eternal Darkness trademark or they will forfeit it. With so few Wii U exclusives being targeted towards a mature audience a sequel would certainly be welcomed by many gamers. It is perhaps more likely that Nintendo may choose to release the game either as a HD remake or Virtual Console title as after ten plus years since the original game many of today’s gamers would need to be introduced to the series before buying a sequel. local_offer Eternal darkness Nintendo shadow of the eternals silicon knights wii u stars Further Reading Legendary Pokemon coming to Pokemon Go The cost of Nintendo consoles in today's dollars Wii U gets firmware update Watch the Smash 4 EVO Finals on Disney XD Take a peek at this week’s Nintendo Dow 9 things you probably didn't know about Super Mario Bros. Ace I would be really happy if they did an HD remake of the release on GC! Please do it Nintendo…PLEASE. Scott Duperree I agree, HD Remake would be pretty cool Ace I never played it because I never had the GC, but everyone I know that had it said that game was really good. I have been hoping for a chance to play that game without having to borrow the GC or buy one…HD remake would be perfect! Scott Duperree Exactly, me too. Never played it, would rather play the remake than just jump into a sequel. Though I suppose a sequel alongside releasing the original on the VC would suffice. Josh111111 Let’s be realistic. Nintendo isn’t going to do anything…. 🙁 Please understand Sonic the Hedgehog Well, they have to! Emufred That’s pessimism bro. If they weren’t going to do anything with it, they would have dropped the trademark. Christopher Acuna They probably wont but I can dream can’t I. Maxid765 OFF TOPIC; I got a wii u for christmas and I need some friends to MOP once Mario Kart 8 and smash comes out: My NNID: MaxidSeventy65 JB HD remake and sequel announced at E3! (one can dream, right? Lol) Daniel Gonzalez That would catch my attention at E3. Seeing as I played the first one before and certainly enjoyed it. Yousif Alromaithi If they made a sequel would you buy a Wii U just for Eternal Darkness and also about Retro Studios if they did the next installment. This would put them on par with Naughty Dog as one of the best developers of games of all time. Daniel Gonzalez Nintendo should really use the trademark already. It wouldn’t hurt them to develop a sequel to this. Hand it over to Retro Studios and be done with it. Plus, I’m sure enough fans will bite at this. Satoru Iwata Please understand, that Nintendo is working on an HD remake that will surely get our fans hyped up to such a brilliant classic. We also have a big surprise at this years E3 that will satisfy those “mature” gamers. Please be patient. Thank you for always supporting Nintendo. V Lol, what would you know about it Guest You are fake Satoru!!! You are kid who want playing act as him. Lmfao. Every famous people will never make username with their names. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha You so funny and this is why I thumb u up. ;P Nintenjoe82 Why are Reggie and Satoru coming up with different excuses for this game not being on Wii U yet? This is exactly why the Wii U message has confused consumers into buying PS4. I would lap up an HD Remake but much prefer a sequel. I don’t want my Wii U collection to be the same games as my gamecube collection. Rick Valenta USE IT!!! This is one of my favorite GameCube games and I replay it every few years and probably always will. An amazing title that deserves a current-gen follow up. Nintenjoe82 Each year I start a new playthrough, complete it once, start the next ‘god/ancient’, take a break and find it hard to get back into so I have to start from scratch but the whole concept never feels tired. Even the clunky combat (by today’s standards) feels refreshing compared to the 2 button approach of 90% of modern games. Rick Valenta When you are descending the steps down into the city of the dead its just breathtaking. So many beautiful/cool moments in that game. I highly recommend picking up a copy to anyone with a cube or a backwards compatible Wii. Nintenjoe82 I remember being secretly a little bit scared by how epic the last section of the game was. Words can’t really describe how good this game was. People bang on about the narrative of modern games being a huge step up from previous gens but this game is still one of the best stories in any game I’ve played. Rick Valenta Wholeheartedly agree. It’s a very philosophical, deep game. The whole bit in the temple about the “dawn, noon, and dusk” of mankind. It’s almost eerie at times, and has given me the shivers when playing like no other game since OOT. It has stood the test of time, and if you play it with the Component Cable in 480p it looks fantastic to this day.. Javy G But six months is not enough time to develop a Wii U game maybe a port into HD but thats it. Alex Kelecich They could probably just announce it and it would count. Wighead They don’t need to use the IP, they just need to file for an extension. So I think they would be crazy not to do it even if they don’t plan to use it right away… Will.F. Martinez Hd remake, virtual console release, or sequel. Don’t matter what it is I’ll get anything I can get Nintendoro I’m surprised Nintendo hasn’t invested into this game. That would be one of my most wanted games on new gen systems. Reason It will not. I’t not mainstream game most people don’t know wtf is it. But it will be right move for hardcore gamers and game press. and sequel will cost a lot too Adam Howell The original flopped, ZombiU flopped. Survival horror games, with a few exceptions, rarely seem to do well. Some of the biggist cult classics in videogaming history like System shock 2 were survival horrors. I think Nintendo should supply a wide range of games, including survival horror games, but they’d rather spend money and resources on games which could potentially get a large audience… like a pokemon spinoff. Nintenjoe82 I sometimes think they try to make certain games fail so they don’t get asked to make them again. I know they don’t want to make games that fail to sell but, like you say, they’d rather put more resources into hyping the next Mario, Pokemon or Wii series game. Reason That’s simply not true. Adam Howell What’s not true? Be specific. MujuraNoKamen Hurry up and do it Nintendo! ED is a true horror game and is realy unique and so should stand out in today’s market (it’s not getting much competition form RE6) Not only would this bring back an overlooked Nintendo franchise but it would add great variety to a predominantly family-friendly library and would please all the mature gamers. Please, if EAD doesn’t want to do it then give it to Retro. Nintendo has enough talented teams out there to make this dream (or should I say sanity effect) a reality. TaintedXGamer ED : HD Edition ASAP, Nintendo! While you Still can! You can’t Lose this IP! ConCity Soldier They have 36 months. David Trail Please use it Nintendo! Blazenwing Nintendo should buy Shadow Of The Eternals from the guys who were trying to make it, re-brand it as an Eternal Darkness game (which by all intents, it seems it basically was, anyway, minus the name) and release it as a Wii U exclusive retail title. Adam Howell Well it was rumoured that silicon knights was working on a sequel for wii u before they lost that court case and went bust. Then, as I understand it, former silicon knights employees tried to crowd source for the spiritual successor. If true Nintendo tried to do something with the series but it fell apart. Did they then hand it over to someone else to work with? IDK. But it would seem to make sense that they hand it over to this new company of old SK employees. Psytrix Why make adult games when you can focus on baby ones? Nintendo forgets, it’s the adults who actually have money.. ETeach and while those adults are spending their money on bills, they’re buying their kids the games to play. lonewolf Nintendo aim is not towards kids and family but towards making games for all people so games for wide audience actually for all audiences i have played games from nintendo that were “kiddy“ but extra hard no kid can finish them and i have played a lot of “mature“ gamesfrom nintendo so they were never focusing on one audience but to all audiences kidsand older people. Cahone na, they make games strictly for 5-12 year olds. The fact that you play games for 5-12 year old doesn’t mean it’s made for all audiences. Flawless Victory Use it. Cahone No kiddos no mommos no doey Graeme Lynch Nintendo should have long ago decided what to do with this gem. Eternal Darkness was the pinnacle of GameCube exclusive! Kamehameha909 I hope they make a new one Lee If they remake Eternal Darkness I will buy it day one, no questions asked! manowaffles I’d rather have a sequel, but I’ve always enjoyed Eternal Darkness. One of the highlights of the Gamecube, and one that deserves to be revisited. devmiles another golden title that drowned with no more focus or attention…darn shame devmiles back in the NES or SNES era dark and hardcore-ish games were very common also because there were so many more developers making games for nintendo. now mostly comes from nintendo itself but the indie scene is increasing with some good output. but looking at nintendo everything has to be super sweet, cute and also fairly easy.. games are not so hardcore as they used to starwars360 We all knew Nintendo had planning to bring GameCube games onto Wii U this year. I hope Nintendo still keep Eternal Darkness. 🙂 C.S. Bailey If Nintendo doesn’t do anything in 6 months, they better hope I don’t win the lottery by then. Maybe the Shadow Of The Eternals developers can get it and have a better chance at making a new game. Blue Hernandez Nintendo you need this. Illmatic1234 Correct me if i’m wrong, but they could just use one of the characters in Smash Bros and have a ED-inspired stage and branding to keep the trade mark?