Deadlock is a hero shooter that both does and does not exist, which is to say that we've all seen it and talked about it, and plenty of people have played it and are likely playing it at this moment, but Valve has steadfastly refused to acknowledge that anyone is even paying attention to it, much less that it's something currently in development, thus leaving it in a suspended state not unlike, say, a metaphorical cat in a box. But now Deadlock does not exist slightly less than it did not exist yesterday, because Valve has applied for a trademark on the name.
Word of the trademark comes from Twitter user Gabe Follower, the guy who got us all excited for Deadlock and then admonished us for being excited about it. A couple weeks after saying he had to stop talking about Deadlock "completely," he has apparently changed his mind, although to be fair he is talking here about a trademark filing and not a videogame, and so arguably it doesn't count.
