Take-Two has finally abandoned the trademark for Rockstar North’s PlayStation 3 exclusive, Cold War action-thriller, Agent, which was originally announced in 2009.
At E3 2009, Rockstar Games officially announced Agent, a new, PlayStation 3-exclusive title that promised to “take players into the world of counter-intelligence, espionage, and political assassination during the height of the Cold War.”
Now, years later, it may come as no surprise that the game that Rockstar’s founder Sam Houser described as the “ultimate action game” appears to be dead. Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar’s parent company, has finally abandoned Agent‘s trademark due to “no Statement of Use or Extension Request.”
The story of Agent begins with a tease from Sony dating back to 2007 wherein the company indicated that Rockstar North was working on a new franchise to be available exclusively on PlayStation 3. This was substantiated by an official blog post from Michael Shorrock, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Director of Third-Party Relations, confirming that the companies had indeed “agreed to PlayStation exclusive rights of the next great franchise from Rockstar studios.
