Valve trademarks Deadlock, the Overwatch-style hero shooter it won’t acknowledge but is making no efforts to hide

Valve‘s long-rumored hero shooter Deadlock is seemingly becoming more and more of an open secret with each passing day. In the closest thing to an official acknowledgement we’ve gotten yet, Valve has apparently filed a trademark application for the game’s name.

“Deadlock trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of entertainment services, namely, providing online video games,” according to US Patent and Trademark Office filings dug up by Gabe Follower on Twitter. The trademark has not yet been granted, but the application is in. The publisher had previously attempted to trademark Neon Prime, the rumored previous title of the project, but that’s now a dead application.