Mafia 4 may have just been filed for trademark by the IP holder, 2K Games, according to the latest information. The trademark itself isn’t new, as it was originally posted on August 2, but it hasn’t been spotted before.
What gives credence to the idea that this might be Mafia 4, and not something we had seen before, is that the trademark also mentions a ‘word mark’ for a stylised Mafia logo that’s not yet been used.
Filed under ‘Goods and Services’ at the US Patent Office, this ‘MAFIA’ copyright has been given the serial number ‘88564555’, in case you’d like to look it up. Sadly, there’s been no description added to the copyright, so there’s precious little we know about it, aside from the fact that it exists.
Not only can we not say if this is an entirely new Mafia game with any degree of certainty, but even if it were, we currently have no way of knowing if it’s the concept that was discussed in an older interview with the developers, Hangar 13.
Hangar 13 had plans to make a Mafia game set in Las Vegas in the 1970s, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Whether this will ever come to fruition, we do not know yet, but we may get some interesting news over the coming weeks and months.