Trailer for Minecraft dev's 'Scrolls' released

Mojang Specifications, the development company formed following the immense success of Minecraft on PC, has finally released the first trailer for its next title, Scrolls.

Xav de Matos

August 30, 2011 8:15 PM

Mojang Specifications, the development company formed following the immense success of Minecraft on PC, has finally released the first trailer for its next title, Scrolls.

Of course, the game's title may change, as ZeniMax--holding company of publisher and developer Bethesda Softworks--is claiming the game's name infringes on the Elder Scrolls franchise trademark.

Whatever the game ends up being called, we do know something for certain, Mojang's next game has the extremely specific release date of "eventually."

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Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Mojang Specifications, the development company formed following the immense success of Minecraft on PC, has finally released the first trailer for its next title, Scrolls.
- AMikaboshi
  
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  August 30, 2011 8:27 PM
  
  lol. 'coming eventually'
- Geoffrois
  
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  August 30, 2011 8:28 PM
  
  lol at "Coming Eventually"
- [deleted] 1327416746
  
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  August 30, 2011 8:54 PM
  
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  - ctlaltl33t
    
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    August 30, 2011 11:49 PM
    
    ^ Yep. I have two shits that were not given
- someWayne
  
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  August 30, 2011 9:16 PM
  
  I'm coming! I'm coming! Eventually...
  - SilentSnake2011
    
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    August 31, 2011 1:19 AM
    
    Lol nice
- deathofrats
  
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  August 30, 2011 9:41 PM
  
  man so looking forward to seeing what he does with the Elder Scrolls mythos. Looks completely different from Skyrim. Great work Bethesda!
  - confuseatron2
    
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    August 30, 2011 9:45 PM
    
    T R A D E M A R K D I L U T I O W N'D
- TastyWheat
  
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  August 30, 2011 10:48 PM
  
  November 11 can't come soon enough!
  - Hunter545
    
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    August 31, 2011 2:23 AM
    
    I see what you did there.
- lightly inclined
  
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  August 30, 2011 11:08 PM
  
  Good stuff. :P
- rottdcorpse
  
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  August 30, 2011 11:43 PM
  
  As if the word "Scrolls" is Copyright? Wind your fucking neck in, Bethesda.
  - socom8271
    
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    August 31, 2011 1:32 AM
    
    Copyrighting words from a name is bad. But this is okay to patent. http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/6368227.html
    - nodebug
      
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      August 31, 2011 3:49 AM
      
      Brilliant, I like the end section where they suggest calling it Tarzan swinging and perhaps even emitting a Tarzan like yell and then "Actual jungle forestry is not required."
  - doctorbfunk
    
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    August 31, 2011 5:09 AM
    
    I read Bethesda was forced to take action when Notch tried to copyright the name Scrolls himself.
    - Haxim
      
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      August 31, 2011 7:28 AM
      
      He applied for a trademark for "Scrolls", so that if necessary he can enforce it (like the time someone made a minecraft clone for iOS called minecraft).
      http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8519901309/bethesda-are-suing-us-heres-the-full-story
- dromo5
  
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  August 30, 2011 11:51 PM
  
  A generic trailer that says nothing about the game...
- SilentSnake2011
  
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  August 31, 2011 1:18 AM
  
  I was going to write "lol at coming eventually" but.....
- Enza252
  
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  August 31, 2011 3:02 AM
  
  it's funny because 'coming eventually' is the same date that Meet the Pyro is supposed to be announced.
- nisolider
  
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  August 31, 2011 4:58 AM
  
  Well at least mojang had fun doing their first teaser...and not really accomplishing anything with it since it'll be a while until they have anything of substance.
  - Gwyndion
    
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    August 31, 2011 7:27 AM
    
    Well, they do show off their artwork... which I think is pretty damn nice. It does basically show you the art design for the game. It's a card-based combat game, so the artwork in the trailer is most likely similar to what you will be seeing on the cards and in the game.
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  August 31, 2011 7:57 AM
  
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- Frush81
  
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  August 31, 2011 9:55 AM
  
  turn base web fighting game ?
- ClawHammR
  
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  August 31, 2011 10:46 AM
  
  ah.. an elder man writing on scrolls.. that must be the open world game where u fight dragons and such (is it wrong to even joke about that or would Bethesda's lawyers take it way to seriously ?