Iconic gaming hero of the nineties about to make a comeback?

With “Gex”, Eidos created a popular competitor for platforming heroes like “Super Mario” or “Sonic” in the nineties: the jumping lizard made three appearances on the PC and various consoles. Then it was quiet about “Gex” – until now. Square Enix has registered the gecko as a trademark with the EU Intellectual Property Office.

Square now owns the Eidos game brands, which include the hopping gecko. The fact that the publisher has registered “Gex” as a trademark with the EU Intellectual Property Office gives fans of the iconic gaming gecko hope that their hero could soon return with a new game. Many projects are being discontinued But it is not a new “Gex” game: behind closed doors, game publishers often work on new projects that are discontinued before they are even presented to the public. The trademark could indicate that there are ideas for a “Gex” game. The fact that it actually appears, however, is not set in stone. A new “Gex” game could well be well received by the fans: The first part, which was released in 1994 for Windows, the Panasonic 3DO and the Sega Saturn, received good reviews. With “Gex 3D: Enter the Gecko” followed in 1998 another “Gex” adventure as a 3D platformer for PC, Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation, to which a year later with “Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko” followed a successor appeared. In total, the “Gex” games were sold around 15 million times on their various platforms. The “Gex” inventors would still exist: The game hero was invented by Crystal Dynamics, where in recent years, however, the ” Tomb Raider ”series was busy.

Reference-www.krone.at