Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend still on track
With or without Activision Blizzard.
Sony Pictures Entertainment, owner of the Ghostbusters licence, says the game will be released "one way or another".
This was one of the titles canned after publisher Sierra merged with Activision to become Activision Blizzard. But SPE is re-evaluating the marketing behind the adaptation and may launch next year, when the original film turns 25, according to Variety.
This may involve a new publishing deal, and more development time for the game.
Brutal Legend, the next project from Psychonauts hero Tim Schafer, was another game cut from the Activision Blizzard plan. However, developer Double Fine owns the rights and is said to be "very close" to signing a new publishing deal.
That may mean delaying the 2008 release as a fresh marketing strategy is put together.
The Bourne licence was another of the Activision Blizzard casualties, but has since been reacquired by Ludlum Entertainment - with sequels very much a possibility.
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According to Double Fine Action News , " Brutal Legend is fine." (hold the mouse of the top picture of the Weevil) I'm sure we'll get an official word from Tim once he's delt with the far more pressing matter of the Weevil.
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Sony don't always work in the interests of SCE, as essentially their sub-divisions tend to go wherever the money is (and that tends to be in multi-platform), hence some MGM and Sony Pictures movies are starting to show up on Xbox Live and iTunes, and hence why Sony and Microsoft work so closely together on the Viao brand.
Ghostbusters is unlikely to become a Sony platform exclusive - SCE will have to bid for the game just like EA and all the rest.
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'Escape from Butcher Bay' was one of the titles I was most excited about getting through backwards compat. when I bought my 360, but it has been blocked from that because it's being remade... Now the remake has been canned I might not get to play this. Dammit! (And damn the crappy MS locked BC on the 360 too.)
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Indeed, after all, while Sony Pictures were desperately fighting against video tape piracy another division of Sony was producing dual VHS recorders that were specifically designed to copy tapes.
Anyhoo, this is great news.
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Maybe another one, for more than a year I've known ZootFly is at Ghostbusters.
Can't wait for this to happen, but I'm can't-wait-ing even more for Brütal Legend. I've seen the Tenacious D movie recently
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the_mtfr - That was just a concept by Zootfly, no?