“Most people will not recognize it as ever having anything to do with Brothers in Arms. If you’ve seen the Furious 4 demo or you go back and watch that stuff, you’ll notice the DNA. You can feel the DNA, because it’s an iterative, continuous development process,” Gearbox Software’s Randy Pitchford told IGN.

“But it’s a process that decided to unhinge itself from Brothers in Arms and go where it needed to go. Furious 4 is evolving into something else. At some point we’ll announce what that thing is. It’ll feel like an entirely new thing. It’s going to be at that moment that it’ll feel like the starting point.”

He also revealed that Ubisoft will not publish the brand and there will be an authentic Brothers in Arms game in the future.

“Ubi will not publish the new brand. We haven’t signed the next Brothers in Arms game with anyone yet,” he said. “Ubisoft’s a great publisher. They’ve been a great partner for Brothers in Arms for many years.”

“There will be an authentic Brothers in Arms game. We haven’t announced that yet, but I’m really excited about where that’s going too. We’ll announce these things in due course. There’s a lot of neat things we have going on.”

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Originally slated for a ‘late summer’ release, around the same time as Far Cry 3, news of Furious 4 has been few and far between, prompting rumours that the game may either be taking a new direction, or has befallen a much graver fate.

This apparent abandonment was spotted by ardent Twitterer and paper-trail extraordinaire superannuation, who seems to be garnering a reputation for themselves. Earlier this week they uncovered news of Saints Row 4 apparently being in development.

Details of the trademark can be found here.

Both Ubisoft and Gearbox Software have been contacted for comment, we await a reply.

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Now we have already let you know about the Brother in Arms Furious 4 announcement, but here is the official trailer for it.  Here is a link to the official forums for the game which will be out sometime in 2012 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.  Check out the trailer above.

Continuing on with the E3 goodness, Gearbox have revealed a new Brothers in Arms game, titled Furious 4.

“A new take on wargames and a new take on World War 2” is promised in the title, and the four characters shown in the trailer will presumably offer different abilities.

At least it’s trying something different, but I can’t say I’m overly excited by another WW2 shooter.