Sega Trademarks Skies of Arcadia and Eternal Arcadia - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 January 2025 / 1,543 Views

Sega has filed trademarks for Skies of Arcadia and Eternal Arcadia in Japan earlier this month.

Eternal Arcadia is the Japanese name for Skies of Arcadia, a turn-based RPG released for the Dreamcast in October 2000. Skies of Arcadia Legends (Eternal Arcadia Legends) is an enhanced version released for the GameCube in December 2002.

Read details on the games below:

Skies of Arcadia

The skies’ the limit!

Follow the adventures of Vyse as he journeys through uncharted skies to discover new continents and explore mystical ruins. Accompanied by Aika and Fina, he will wage epic battles against savage monsters, evil Pirates, and a powerful enemy nation. An RPG experience unlike any other awaits you.

Full 3D world with highly imaginative storyline, beautifully detailed graphics and immersive gameplay.
Customize your own airship with up to 22 crew members.
Hand-to-hand and ship-to-ship combat featuring spectacular spell effects, and amazing special attacks.

Skies of Arcadia Legends

Become legend of piracy.

Take the helm and gain renown in this vast role-playing voyage across spectacular and ever changing worlds.

An improved battle engine with hours of new gameplay.
New “Wanted” Battles, new characters, and more…
Customize your own airship and enlist up to 22 crew members.
Fight with over 70 weapons and 36 magical skills in staggering ship-to-ship combat.

Thanks, Gematsu.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Bluesky.

9 Comments

2zosteven (on 27 January 2025)

super excited!!!!!!

Leynos 2zosteven (on 27 January 2025)

They are just renewing the trademark. This happens all the time. Likely nothing

2zosteven Leynos (on 27 January 2025)

i know. about to whip out my gamecube

rapsuperstar31 (on 27 January 2025)

The one I've been waiting for from Sega.

Leynos rapsuperstar31 (on 27 January 2025)

Keep waiting. This is common from companies protecting IPs. If anything came from each time this happened we would have Eternal Darkness re-released 5 times by now from Nintendo

coolbeans Leynos (on 27 January 2025)

But isn't SEGA doing a better job at remastering their earlier work? It seems like they're interested in exploring any potential revenue resource they have on hand.

Leynos coolbeans (on 27 January 2025)

Remastering? Not really. Remaking. I doubt they remake Skies. I'd love it but the characters in these games are in other series.

thehunter (on 28 January 2025)

This would be in my top 3 list:

Skies of Arcadia Legend
No One Lives Forever
TLoZ: Four Swords Adventure

Jumpin (on 27 January 2025)

Very interesting! I’d more or less lost hope after Skies of Arcadia creator Rieko Kodama passed away. I don’t expect (or want) a sequel without Kodama,, but I’d love to see this game ported to Switch or Switch 2.

They could just be filing the trademarks to prevent expiration or someone else picking it up.

Edit:
I did a few trademark searches, and apparently it was expiring or recently expiring - example: in the US it expired in 2023. It’s also expired in many European countries, although some places it holds to as late as 2029. Anyway, here’s the US:
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76052580&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

In other words, it looks like they’re just re-filing the expired trademarks to so someone else doesn’t snatch them up.