@MSUSteve: I hope they don't do it: Indy IV, Blues Brothers 2000, the SQ prequels. They all failed to recapture the initial movie's greatness, there's no way a new GB movie is going to be as good, and making the movie solely as a launching point for a new franchise is never a good idea. If you have to make it, let the original Ghostbusters carry it on their own - I don't want Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson starring with an Aykroyd/Murray cameo.

masonreloaded

Why the hell does no one want to publish this game? Hell, it made it's own marketing. Tons of people will get this as a day 1 buy.

akumaserge

@ChimDeathmonkey: Thanks for that link! I hadn't seen that. If they're going to bring together the original Ghostbusters for one last hurrah, they really need to have it be a passing the torch kind of movie so they can continue the franchise into the future. I'd love to see Ghostbusters movies continue.

MSUSteve

@WordMan: I guess you're relatively new here. There actually are quite a lot of commentators here that are either developers or work for companies that develop games. If you pay close enough attention, you'll see that there are actually quite a few insiders here.

ceilingFANBOY

You think they are timing this to coincide with the new movie now?
[www.variety.com]

ChimDeathmonkey

HUNDREDS of god-awful games get produced every year ... I can't for the life of me figure out why this wouldn't be a slam-dunk for ANY publisher. Even if it's just a day-one-sales license-awareness-cash-in like Reservoir Dogs, The Sopranos, or Desparate Housewives ... it's got to be capable of making back its development costs.

FrankieViturello

@Walker: A theory I like is that Ghostbusters isn't a franchise that Activision can milk on a yearly basis due to the acting talent/writing being hard to round up. The theory I personally subscribe to is that the the monies paid out to various license holders, actors, writers, etc. is taking a huge bite out of any potential profit this game is going to make and that Activision didn't think it was worth the risk.

MSUSteve

I can't understand why no publisher wants to publish this. Is there a reason why Activision don't want to do it? Its a great IP and should do well, so i really don't understand this.

Walker

Did anyone else see that the recently resurrected Taco and Four Cheese flavors of Doritos have a promotional tie-in with the Ghostbusters video game? I don't know if this was something set in motion so long ago and that got so far it couldn't be stopped, but I'm hoping it's a sign that Ghostbusters will arrive in October as scheduled.

MSUSteve

At this point I don't care who publishes it, I just want the game to release.

Quicksilver4648

"What are you some kind of cosmonaut?

No, someone saw a cockroach up on 12.

That's a big cockroach."

This game MUST come out, someone please help get the keymaster over to the gatekeeper so we can find the publisher!

Surlaw-the-Mai

@anmkevin: you rat bastard. I'm jealous. How have you seen every cutscene already?

WordMan

This is awesome news, I hope it's true - I can't wait to give a proton pack a test drive of my own. :D

Rhawb

This might actually be just the sing to make Atari relevant.

If true, Bravo Harrison!

boringjob2

Worried that this will go the way of the Godfather game - "We have the original cast and recreate scenes from the original" everyone gets excited then the game completely fails to recreate anything that made the original great. Games stand or fall on their gameplay - how many Star Wars games have looked great before they came out then turned out to be turds to play. I'm holding off judgment til release...

masonreloaded

i demand info about Brutal Legend's survivability chances now.

3inst3in

@Grumpz®: write... man i'm stupid sometimes.

Grumpz®

how do they cancel a game with a built in audience, especially of parents who will be more than happy to buy it?
after the stars all sign on, right the script and record their lines and the game is almost finished?

Brutal Legend you can make a case for cancelling in the interest of dollars. But ghostbusters? do they see how much money ghostbusters has generated as a franchise?

Grumpz®

The game looks good, and if buying it gives Atari money to do Test Drive Unlimited 2, even better. :D

twinturbo2

Having seen every cut scene for this game, I'm confident that at least the story and Ghostbusters humor are in tact. It actually looked pretty impressive and was a good throwback.

anmkevin

I ain't afraid of no ghost!

... but the current money making politics of the videogame industry that lead to game cancelations scare the hell out of me. T_T

Shiryu

I am not sure why so many people were high on this game anyway. I am from the generation of Ghostbusters. I used to pretend to be Bill Murray, but I wasn't all that interested in a Ghostbusters game. It seems to be getting alot of random buzz recently, the 'Buster franchise.

Well, hopefully the game just doesn't fall off into the abyss after so much work went into it, but it wouldn't be the first to do so.

jasoncourt

Even though this game does not appeal to me, I do hope it sees the light of day. It's got a great following of fans and the voice acting will for sure be pretty damn good.

macr0planet

Good to see that your clone of harrison is still running about the place

Anyway,someone better step in.I dont wanna miss out on some more Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray...

Tom Clancy's Samuraidino

This game has tremendous potential. Atari would be smart to snatch this one up.

DugDawg

I'm just glad Ghostbusters isn't dead. I'd like to try it out, even if just for old time's sake.

RandomPoltergeist

Just tell Phil that you will give him back his gum if he gives you some information. That ought to get you some insider information.

ceilingFANBOY

I have a Ghostbusters the video game T Shirt... they better publish this.
Here's hoping atari can do it. Poor guys...

Demonbird

Well Atari definitely wants to make money, so it's in their interest to hope this game will be good.

Candlejack

Could their crowing jewel of their turn around flagship game not be this? Would rather a "good" publisher picked this up. Feel free to prove me wrong, Atari.

e-friend

I will be very sad if this one fades away...I am not sure I even care if the game is great at this point. After seeing it announced months ago, I told my kids they were old enough to see the original movie and we had a great time...Ghostbusters must live on!

Thriceborn

@masonreloaded: You have a point man. Perhaps I'm letting my love for Ghostbusters cloud my judgment.

MSUSteve

Please dont go away ghosbusters. I love you so much...

DarkHavoc99

Hmmm, Atari picked up Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) when David Cage decided to find another publisher during development, this might turn out to be another smart decision for them.

Sofox

After the disappointment of Alone in the Dark, I'm not sure that Atari getting their hands on this game is such a good thing.

Sean Beanland

@Walker: I got a chance to play a fairly recent build of it yesterday. It's not very 'WOW' gameplay-wise. Sure it's got recognizable dialog, characters and art, but it felt more than a little 'flat' to be honest. I can see why someone might not want to publish yet another 3rd party shooter into a fairly saturated market.

glibby

Damn. I had just swore off buying Atari products forever and they snag the one game IP that I want more then anything in the world. You've got the check there Atari, but don't think I'll forgive you for how awful Alone In The Dark was.

furrot

This will be HUGE for Atari if they do manage to pick it up and publish it. I'm all for it. Ghostbusters has been getting nothing but positive responses all over the internet and it will no doubt sell, helping out Atari financially in the process. Its a win-win situation. We get Ghostbusters and Atari makes the money that it needs. Sounds good to me.

SugerBumps

If i win the £100m in the Euromillions on Friday i will publish this game myself, you can hold me to that.

3Sixty

@WordMan:

Yeah, what wordman said. I work at the company that the cinematics were outsourced to. I wasn't on that project, but I saw them all.

anmkevin

@ChimDeathmonkey: There will be no movie. Dan Aykroyd has said time and time again that the game is the third movie, so many times, so many times.

Ashkihyena

@Candlejack:

I think atari has always wanted to make money, and so it's in their interest that the game sells. That's a different thing centirely. Just look at nintendo.

francoamerica

"The official words from Activision are "no comment" so take this one with a grain of salt until things find a bit more solid ground."

No surprise there, from the bastards that dropped it, bunch of assholes.

Ashkihyena

@Candlejack: It might gain them some reputation, too. At this particular moment, does anyone give a crap about Atari? But everyone loves the Ghostbusters! If you don't, then you just don't have a soul.

Mister_Jack

@Ashkihyena: Oh, and Atari picking it up would be better then EA picking it up and sticking their God awful DRM on the PC version.

Ashkihyena

@MSUSteve: That sounds about right, unlike their precious whore of a franchise *cough*GuitarHero*cough* they can't milk the Ghostbusters franchise for all its worth.

Ashkihyena

@jasoncourt: That would be because they've got a majority of the actors to reprise their roles, the graphics look great, the voice acting sounds great, and quite frankly, alot of Ghostbuster fans don't want to remember the horrific NES games as the last games for this franchise.

Ashkihyena

Dang, maybe there's something wrong with me but from all the vids I've seen of Ghostbusters I thought the game looked pretty boring. I couldn't see myself spending $60 on it, that's for sure. Of course, I'm sure my parents paid quite a bit for that sorry excuse of a Ghostbusters game that I had on the Sega Master System but my parents were probably high. That being said, it looks like a rental at best but I hate to be too hard on it since I haven't actually played the game.

torgojones

@MSUSteve: Giving the fact that Dan pretty much created the movies and such, I'd pretty much have to take his word for it. Besides, Bill Murray doesn't want to do a third live action movie, and people would not be happy if someone else took over the Ghostbuster's role.

Ashkihyena

@Ashkihyena: Just because Aykroyd said that the Ghostbusters game is the third movie, doesn't mean there can be an actual third movie. I think his point is, the Ghostbusters game is the third movie he would've liked to have made back when it was still possible to make it. I'm certainly not saying that an actual third movie will be made, but I don't think Aykroyd's statements about the game being the "third movie" will be what prevents it.

MSUSteve

@bluesquareapple: "or they couldn't secure sequel deals in the future to molest the Ghostbusters name for over a billion dollars in the next 15 years of the ActiBlizzard empire."

This one, definitly this one.

Ashkihyena

My local GameCrazy told me they required to refund my Ghostbusters pre-order since it was without a publisher. That news made me somewhat depressed as this was one of top 10 most anticipated games at the time. The only reasons I could see Activision dropping it is because it was going to have a development cycle longer than they were comfortable with, they didn't think it would net enough profits compared to the money they were shelling out, or they couldn't secure sequel deals in the future to molest the Ghostbusters name for over a billion dollars in the next 15 years of the ActiBlizzard empire.

bluesquareapple

@torgojones: Wait wait wait, you actually played the Sega Master System version, and this one you call boring? Wow, there's something wrong there.

I think this one would make up for all that shit back in the day, all that shit was pretty much shit.

Ashkihyena

Do they even have anything worthwhile coming out for the next year? They'd better release this...unless they want to be "Alone in the Dark". Waaa waaa.

I know, lame joke. =(

y2kenjination

I'm just surprised it's taking this long to get a publisher. I wish the developer would come out and tell us why. I'm hoping it's because they keep getting better and better offers for it.

Ryodestined

@Walker: I would guess it's part of the merger craziness between Activision and Blizzard. That ended up killing/suspending a lot of projects with little word as to why, just a lot of quick sudden decisions that seemed to come from no where. It's all business, the great killer of fun and good :\

Chillblain

@Shiryu: You're not the only one...

Chillblain

ME want!! GIMMIE!!!!

y2julio

Please, Atari... PLEASE don't let this game die.

KagaSakai

If there's something strange, and it don't look good...

Who you gonna call?

ATARI!!

FoxyGaz

Atari needs to seal the deal while all the other major devs are using their heads by giving themselves colonoscopies.

Dr_Claw4891

@Ashkihyena:

[movies.yahoo.com]

One is at least for sure being written as confirmed by Harold Ramis.

GrapenutsRobot

I hope this game gets made, I had very high hopes.

danatoth

Um, I have yet to hear of a GOOD game not being able to find a publisher.

Something tells me this game is a stinker. I really hope I'm wrong, but I'm not very optimistic.

Keeko_ca

@Ashkihyena: yeah, screw companies who like making money! They're so irresponsible!

e-friend

@FrankieViturello: Sadly, even games that are successful on the market will sometimes fail to make back their development costs, because of the sheer number of mismanaged game companies out there.

1Grand_Marquis

I really, really hope this succeeds. But to do that, they absolutely have to fix an enormous number of things that kept the demo I played at Comicon from actually being fun. The tracking system with the PK valence meter is broken, the ghost catching mechanic is too unforgiving, and the physics get in the way more often than they wow. If they can get over those hurdles, this promises to be my favoritest game ever.

1Grand_Marquis

@Keeko_ca:

Yeah that's not true. I can't site any specific examples but I'm sure plenty of quality games fall through the cracks.

GrapenutsRobot

If a game like Ghostbusters fails to get picked up by a Publisher, then that is just further proof that there is no god.

Same goes for Brutal Legend. The industry nneds to support devs like Double Fine and Tim Schafer.

I will be a happy person indeed if those two games make it to retail.

coalhalo

ATARI is a good home for Ghostbuster. Didn't Activision keep the license for silly games like SPYRO, over the money maker this title is Going to be? I think ATARI knows that we want this, and I bet Phil and the boys over at ATARI are fans of the movies and it was a part of their youth. The game is just about finished from what I heard, and Terminal Reality is putting the finishing touches. I think ATARI cares about this game more that a cash cow for the(albeit a cash cow they need) They would never have been able to come up with the cash to get the original movies actors to do the voices. This is going to be like squashing fish in a Barrell for ATARI, the work is done and all they have to do is ratchet up the advertising. Good luck to em, I will have the game the day it launches, on nastalgic value alone.

JASONSPAZ

What if Burger King published it? I could add it to my library of super-hits such as Big Bumpin and Sneak King!

Ed_209

can i buy the rights and distribute it from my garage?

anything to get this game out...

bluebottle

@MSUSteve: I miss the Four Cheese flavor of Doritos. I haven't seen this in my neck of the woods yet, but MAN, I want this game to be good.

SnakesSolids

I may be alone, but I hope that Atari get this title and can clean up their business. Wouldn't like Infogrames to fail. Well except if Midway could get it ....

develin

@e-friend: No, screw companies who drop something that looks very good for crappy, dead franchises, and of course, their whore, Guitar Hero.

Ashkihyena

@GrapenutsRobot: Honestly, I don't believe it, anyone can say they're anyone. Personally, I still want to hear it from Dan himself.

Still, while I would love to see a third movie, I don't think it'd be good without the originals, and just the originals, and well, honestly, other then Ernie Hudson, the guys aren't exactly in the best of shape.

Ashkihyena

@MSUSteve: I saw that at my store too, but there were only a couple of bags of the Taco left, so I don't know if this was Lays' emptying their warehouse or if it's actually viable.

vid3oman64

It's a good thing that this story didn't pop up first on CAG. Then I would have taken it at face value!!!

shieryda

Good news that someone out there MAY publish it. As a child I was a massive fan of everything Ghostbuster related. I can even vaguely remember the (in my opinion) horrific Sega Matersystem game. I just hope that like so many other great licenses, this game lives up to it's potential if and when it does finally get released.

DogMeatius

it would be a real shame to see this game go down the drain. It just goes to show how little the new execs of Activision actually know about video games.

stiltskin

This had better not end up like the long rumored/promised "HEAT" videogame.

mauledbybares

I don;t care at this point who publishes it. If it stays true to what we saw at comic-con, then anyone can publish it.

I just want the game.

343winks