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Sega Files 'Valkyria: Azure Revolution' Trademark
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Sega filed a trademark for "Valkyria: Azure Revolution" in Japan on October 15. Like the previously filed trademark for "Aoki Kakumei no Valkyria," the new filing includes the trademark's potential use in "programs for home game machines." The title is similar to Sega's Valkyria Chronicles turn-based tactics game series. In Japan, the series is known as Senjō no Valkyria (Valkyria of the Battlefield).
The Valkyria Chronicles games are set in a fictional reimagining of 1930s Europe. In the first game, the Empire invades the neutral nation of Gallia to claim its resources. The game focuses on the soldiers of Squad 7, a platoon in the Gallian conscript Militia, who fight back the invading Empire. The second and third games in the series focus on different Gallian military units.
Sega released the first Valkyria Chronicles game on the PlayStation 3 in Japan, Europe, and North America in 2008, and released Valkyria Chronicles II on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Sega also released Valkyria Chronicles III on the PSP in 2011, but did not release it in the West. Sega released Valkyria Chronicles on the PC in November 2014.
The first game in the series inspired a 26-episode television anime series by A-1 Pictures in 2009. The third game inspired a 2-episode original video animation in 2011.
[Via Gematsu]
