Take-Two registers Links trademark

Take-Two Interactive has filed a trademark for Links, presumably to resurrect the gold series it purchased from Microsoft back in 2004.

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Take-Two Interactive has filed a trademark for Links, presumably to resurrect the golf series it purchased from Microsoft back in 2004.

Links was a rather prolific golf series by Access Software which began life in 1990. The last game in the series came in 2003, when Links 2003 released on the original Xbox. The franchise has been dormant since.

The trademark discovered by internet super sleuth Superannuation could open the door for a new game in the series through a new developer. It did the same thing last year with Top Spin 4, developed by 2K Czech. However, beyond the registration, there is no hint at what Take-Two would do with the series at this time.

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    November 6, 2012 4:00 PM

    John Keefer posted a new article, Take-Two registers Links trademark.

    Take-Two Interactive has filed a trademark for Links, presumably to resurrect the gold series it purchased from Microsoft back in 2004.

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      November 6, 2012 4:00 PM

      Golf John!

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      November 6, 2012 8:35 PM

      I loved Links on my IBM PS/2 back in the early 90's. It drew the graphics on the screen like an artist filling in colors until the image was a pretty display of the golf course. The physics were really great considering the computing power at the time. But any reboot of the series would just be a new golf game that probably wouldn't compete with EA.

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        November 6, 2012 8:38 PM

        Real golf fans played Leaderboard - and we fucking liked it!

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        November 7, 2012 7:55 AM

        A few years ago at Dave & Busters they were running one of those "virtual golf' things where you swung the club and the giant video screen shows what you did. Sort of an early version of Kinect. I remember it was still running Links 97.

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      November 6, 2012 9:37 PM

      Time to renew my rivalry with Edgewise for best Links Shacker back when we used to get -80 or better on 4 round tournaments on XSN.

      http://www.shacknews.com/article/32719/evening-reading?id=8202583#item_8202583

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      November 6, 2012 9:38 PM

      I hope they bring it back to the sim that it once was.

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      November 7, 2012 4:18 AM

      Arnold Palmer!

      I had it all... loved buying all the course add-ons and such.

      PGA 2000 (by Sierra) was also pretty awesome. I swapped out the taunt .wav files with (mainly) cuss samples from Kingpin: Life of Crime ... lol.

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      November 7, 2012 4:51 AM

      I hope it is a game about the gold standard.

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      November 7, 2012 7:45 AM

      they better do something like XSN :(

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      November 7, 2012 8:44 AM

      YES!

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      November 7, 2012 9:09 AM

      the hell you say

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      November 7, 2012 9:18 AM

      my jimmies have been rustled

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      November 7, 2012 9:28 AM

      Good for them, hope they have some success after NBA 2K has done so well. EA needs competition in sports.

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