Looking for blog topics this morning I spotted a couple of posts at CNET, both of which have to do with our friends at Blizzard Entertainment, which you may know from such games as World of Warcraft, the Starcraft series and the Diablo series. Like many folks, I love those games — though I admit I’ve never played WoW and several of the others. At least, not yet.

Brendan Sinclair wrote yesterday about how the game company has registered at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for several names, all of which use the word “cataclysm.” Sinclair, in turn, got the news from superannuation. It looks as though the company intends to use the word, somehow, in conjunction with computer and online games, as well as printed products — the wording suggests it could be comic books, posters or perhaps just the printed material that accompanies the hard copy of the game.

So, what does it really mean?