Occurances of oddness

On Monday, Berkeley-based company by the name of OddMobb filed a number of trademark registrations online social networking, virtual worlds, action figures and non-video games, printed materials, websites that do various things, online communities, and video and computer games.

I didn’t hesitate to assume that a company Odd its name has some association to Oddworld, and it turns my assumption was correct. The list of attendees for the Social Gaming Summit 2009 mentions “Lorne Lanning, OddMobb Inc,” which means I’ll further assume this means his recent statement that whatever is next will announced “soon” have some weight.

Though this is an entirely separate company than Oddworld Inhabitants, they do share the same address (which Google Maps seems to tell me is probably Sherry McKenna’s house). Also, OWI has continued filing extensions for Citizen Siege and Wage Wars (and filed another trademark registration for the latter late last year), so it wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that OddMobb’s first development is related to that IP. (If you want to know how trademark extensions work, I’d refer you to this page rather than taking a paragraph to explain them.)