It appears the team behind last year’s commendable Dead Space for Xbox360 and PLAYSTATION3 may be going through somewhat of a change, according to a report on Blend Games.

            Yesterday afternoon news broke that Electronic Arts had filed a trademark for the name “Visceral Games”. While there may be a number of reasons for such a move – the opening of a brand new studio or development of a new line of products, for example – Blend Games have drawn a connection with a report in Variety from back in September 2008, in which EA Redwood Shores’ Glen Schofield stated that they were “Looking to brand the studio. That’s what I’m doing right now. It’s going through legal.”

            Rather than referring to EA Redwood Shores as a whole, the statement was directed at the team working under the EA Games label that produced Dead Space. EA Redwood Shores (the parent body under which both corporate offices and a handful of other teams are housed) would still continue to function as normal, in its current guise, yet the Dead Space team would be able to distinguish themselves by way of a more suggestive moniker.

            Some would suggest that the team had earned themselves recognition, while other may see the move as Electronic Arts wisely distancing their more mature titles from their family franchises and sports titles. Either way, Electronic Arts have yet to comment.

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