We haven’t heard anything since Jagex’s statement about the official name of the game (codename “MechScape”). I thought it would be cool to give a little update on the current situation of the application of the Stellar Dawn trademark. In this article I will go through the options Jagex has for naming MechScape, this article is mostly speculation so keep that in mind. Also make sure to give your opinion in the comments.

Jagex has registered the trademark for the name Stellar Dawn, but their logo is not yet registered. Maybe they’ll wait until their logo is registered before they come with the game, it’s not actually required to register the trademark before use (as far as I know) but they might want to make sure their logo is ok. The Stellar Dawn logo is currently being advertised in the 6792nd trade mark journal, published on 03 July 2009. It takes about 2 months to register a trademark. So maybe we will see Stellar Dawn in about 1 month.

If Jagex decided to use another name for the game, that would be interesting. They haven’t registered any trademarks since Stellar Dawn that could qualify as a good space MMO name. Their last trademarks have been Bachelor Fridge, Infinite Dungeon, Never Ending Dungeon and Steel Sentinels. Note that they don’t have to own a trademark before they start using it. However the risk of using a trademark that’s already registered is present. It would sure be interesting to see another name pop up on the RuneScape homepage saying something like “Stellarscape beta for all RuneScape members!”. Stellarscape… yea right..

I don’t expect Jagex to come up with another name, especially since they’ve spend resources in both the names MechScape and Stellar Dawn. The only thing we can do now is wait for the beta to be released.

So what do you think will it be MechScape or Stellar Dawn, please comment below. - What name do you think it’s going to be and what name would you prefere?

MechScape will be released very soon, at least that’s what the folks at TechRadar UK tell us in this article. MechScape will be released later in 2009 (see the quote below). Click here to read the full article.

And it will be exciting to watch as the company’s latest MMO tears up the internet later in 2009 (on which note, watch out for news on the forthcoming closed beta test for Jagex’s ‘codename Mechscape‘ right here on TechRadar very soon indeed).

For the tech savvie people this is an interesting quote:

“Runescape has the second biggest public forum on the internet, with around 2.8 million posts a week,” explains Gerhard. “Yet we host that [forum] on a machine with around 1GB of RAM which you probably couldn’t even sell for £50.. because our technology is that good.”

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Today MechScape released new concept art for MechScape. Tomorrow they’ll release another concept art image so be sure to check it out. This concept art piece has been made Sellis.

A desert scene with space ships flying over.