Three new Tales of trademarks have been discovered filed by Bandai Namco Entertainment in Japan.
- 2015-38505 - Tales of Berseria
- 2015-38506 - Tales of Orfellia
- 2015-38507 - Tales of Alestia
To those who don't get how this works, Bandai Namco Japan usually files trademarks of possible Tales titles from time to time in order to reserve that title for their use. This may or may not become a future title, but them having filed new name trademarks usually indicates that a game is in the works. There are times when a title may never be used (like Tales of Creales and Catastora, then there are times when it does get used but is modified (Tales of Gracia -> Tales of Graces). Sometimes they'll actually file variations of the name they're thinking of (Tales of Zestiria could have been Tales of Zestoria or Tales of Zestias). They're also not always filed for mothership games, such as the Tales of Asteria trademark becoming a mobile game.
Should any of these be chosen as a main game, Alestia may be out of the question, since the initials "TOA" for the Tales of series is already taken by Tales of the Abyss.
Tales of Berseria is the latest mothership title of the Tales of Series which was first announced during Tales of Festival 2015. The game was released for both the PS3 and PS4 on August 18, 2016 in Japan, January 24, 2017 in North America and January 27, 2017 in Europe for the PS4 and PC. The game features a female protagonist named Velvet and a theme of pirates and ships. It’s also confirmed as a distant prequel to Tales of Zestiria.
