Jason West and Vince Zampella’s Respawn Entertainment has had a new game in the works, set to be published by EA, for some time. A couple weeks ago, it was discovered that Respawn had registered the trademark for something called “Titan,” but the details ended there. However, a post on Kotaku credits unnamed sources as having the inside scoop on “Titan,” particularly the detail that it’ll be exclusive to Microsoft’s Xbox consoles.

The post says that Titan will revolve around the struggle between “Davids and Goliaths,” with the “Davids” being “heavily-armed foot soldiers” and “Goliaths” being giant mech-style exoskeletons called “Titans.” So many allusions…basically, it’s a giant-robot combat game with little soldiers too. And, really, that’s all I needed to be infinitely more interested in this game, if this description proves to be true.

The post also cites its sources as saying that Titan is being built on Valve’s Source engine, and isn’t using any of EA’s engines. In addition, the sources say that it’ll appear on not just the Next-Box, but also the Xbox 360, with development duties going to another developer that Respawn is “hand-picking.”

Until we hear anything specific from Microsoft about its next-gen console—set to be unveiled on May 21—or anything specific from Respawn about its game—set to be announced at E3, most likely—we’ll just have to be content with these rumors. Does the idea of a sci-fi shooter involving agile and highly-mobile mechs sound appealing to you? How cool would it be to have a multiplayer shooter with one of your friends piloting a gigantic robot while the rest of your squad covers him on the ground? Giant robots. So cool. I have buttons: these rumors are pushing them. Could all of this be true? Or do you think it’s all BUNK?

[Via Kotaku]

The development studio founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella has registered a trademark for “Titan,” as spotted by NeoGAF and reported by CVG today. While there’s no other information besides that, the studio’s been working on something since it was founded back in 2010, and will publish that something with Electronic Arts…sometime. Someday. Somehow.

That day looks like it may finally be approaching. This year’s E3 is fast approaching, and registering for a trademark is definitely a sign that something’s cooking. In addition, the long lawsuit between Respawn’s founders and Activision has been settled for a little while now, so it seems as though whatever might’ve been holding things back is finally cleared away. Yes, I think we can all agree that Titan, whatever it is, will be Respawn Entertainment’s first long-awaited game.

So, now that we have a name, I’m going to throw a guess out there: Titan will show up for the holidays this year, presumably on next-gen systems…but maybe not that last bit. Either way, we’ll probably catch our first glimpses of it at E3. Especially considering this tweet from February:

I’ve gotten a ‘few’ questions about @e3expo plans this year. Yes, we will finally be at E3!

— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) February 25, 2013

Any guesses as to what it might be? It’s gotta be a first-person shooter, right?

[Via CVG]

Chatting with Destructoid at the Spike VGAs, World of Warcraft Executive Producer Frank Pearce confirmed the existence of the Titan project at Blizzard.

“The media is not supposed to know anything about that,” Pearce said. “It’s our next-gen MMO and we’ve only started talking it in a limited fashion because we want to leverage the fact that we’re working on something like that for the purposes of recruiting — getting some of the best talent in the industry on that project.”

This information jives with a supposed document leak, placing the release of Diablo III in Q4 2011 and the then-mysterious Titan in Q4 2013. This provides some circumstantial evidence to the authenticity of the leaked document.

Regardless, another MMO from Blizzard is not a bad thing in any conceivable way.

[via Destructoid]