Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend still on track News

Brutal Legend looked like a fun if not particularly nuanced game. i enjoy Psychonauts and am looking forward to seeing what its like. I hope it doesn't have too much trouble finding a publisher.

Cool stuff, I was worried that Brutal Legend and Ghostbusters might fall into development limbo.

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.

Sony Pictures and Sony Computer Entertainment seem poles apart. Sony Pictures uses the Sony name but is an amalgamation of several smaller studios which have long since merged, including companies like Columbia, Tri-Star, MGM (slightly complicated arrangement), etc... It would seem like a logical match for Sony Pictures' IPs to find their way to Sony-exclusive video-game tie-ins, but this rarely (if ever?) happens. Think back to the unveiling of the PS3 - Spiderman was the poster-child, with tech demos detailing a digital Alfred Molina, Spiderman 3 being the launch BluRay disc that was packed in with the console for some time, even the Playstation 3 logo is written in the same font as the Spiderman one... yet despite all this, Activision still hold the game-development rights, and Spiderman games continue to be released on the Xbox and Wii. Similar can be said of Casino Royale.

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.

I'm so glad Ghostbusters is still going to happen

I'm happy to hear about them, but I stilll really want the Riddick game!

'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.)

@cheekyjay

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.

I don't think there's a conspiracy over Butcher Bay - quite a few of the more technically advanced Xbox games can't run under the BC emulation (Rallisport Challenge 2 and Stranger's Wrath spring to mind, also Kung Fu Chaos). Pity MS seems to have abandoned any work on BC, though.

Heh, what are the odds Ghostbusters ends up on the EA roster?

Were'nt Terminal Reality making the Ghostbusters game? Wish they'd make Nocturne 2.

@ExplodingClown

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 :D

ExplodingClown - Correct.

the_mtfr - That was just a concept by Zootfly, no?