{"id":3178,"date":"2022-07-06T06:15:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/microsoft-renews-trademark-for-rares-classic-n64-game-blast-corps\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T06:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T06:15:24","slug":"microsoft-renews-trademark-for-rares-classic-n64-game-blast-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/microsoft-renews-trademark-for-rares-classic-n64-game-blast-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Renews Trademark For Rare&#8217;s Classic N64 Game Blast Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Viva Pi\u00f1ata, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video game trademark renewals are always happening, and while they don&#8217;t necessarily mean something is on the horizon, they do tend to create some excitement whenever it&#8217;s a classic game or series we haven&#8217;t heard about for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The latest ones, as highlighted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/microsoft-renews-viva-pinata-blast-corps-trademarks\/\">Game Rant<\/a>, are tied to iconic British developer Rare &#8211; owned by Microsoft. Interestingly though, they&#8217;re more of a retro throwback &#8211; with the renewals of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/blast_corps\">Blast Corps<\/a> (originally released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/viva_pinata_pocket_paradise\">Viva Pi\u00f1ata<\/a>, starting out on the Xbox 360 in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/microsoft-renews-trademark-for-rares-classic-n64-game-blast-corps\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Microsoft Renews Trademark For Rare&#8217;s Classic N64 Game Blast Corps<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Viva Pi\u00f1ata, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video game trademark renewals are always happening, and while they don&#8217;t necessarily mean something is on the horizon, they do tend to create some excitement whenever it&#8217;s a classic game or series we haven&#8217;t heard about for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The latest ones, as highlighted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/microsoft-renews-viva-pinata-blast-corps-trademarks\/\">Game Rant<\/a>, are tied to iconic British developer Rare &#8211; owned by Microsoft. Interestingly though, they&#8217;re more of a retro throwback &#8211; with the renewals of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/blast_corps\">Blast Corps<\/a> (originally released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/viva_pinata_pocket_paradise\">Viva Pi\u00f1ata<\/a>, starting out on the Xbox 360 in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/microsoft-renews-trademark-for-rares-classic-n64-game-blast-corps\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}