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activision-joins-rick-moranis-says-no-thanks-to-ghostbusters-video-game

It wasn’t long ago that we all questioned Rick Moranis’s decision to turn his back on the Ghostbusters video game. The same game Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd said yes to. The same game so many of us nerds have been looking forward to.

Well, today Activision Blizzard joins Moranis, as they announce their post merger line-up. Ghostbusters (as well as several other games listed at the end of this article) were nixed by the new level 70 (soon to be 80) elite rare spawn perked out mega publisher — Activision Blizzard for short.

Activision CEO, Mike Griffith, stated the following regarding the line-up change:

“We are focused on improving efficiency across the combined organization and are concentrating on businesses where we have leadership positions that are aligned with Activision Publishing’s long-term corporate objectives,”

The new “streamlined” list of games includes Crash Bandicoot, Ice Age, Spyro the Dragon, Prototype, and one yet to be announced title. Ice Age and Spyro the fucking Dragon over Ghostbusters? Are you fucking kidding me?

In all honesty, I find it funny that Activision Blizzard’s focus is now to” streamline” things, when theĀ  two companies had several months to “streamline” their new name, but in the end decided to keep it as lengthy as humanly fucking possible.

Who you gonna call? Not Activision Blizzard, that’s for fucking for sure.

Full list of games cut: Brutal Legend, Wet, Ghostbusters, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, World at Conflict: Soviet Assault, 50 Cent Blood on the Sand, Zombie Wranglers, Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, and various Xbox Live Arcade titles.

Source: Gameindustry.biz

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5 Comments »

  1. Jonathan Zungre
    on July 28, 2008 11:22 pm

    are you kidding me? double fine’s brutal legend as well?

  2. Patrick Steen
    on July 29, 2008 1:40 am

    They’ll find other publishers easily.

  3. madpuppy
    on July 29, 2008 2:43 am

    was kinda’ looking forward to “wet”

  4. Patrick Steen
    on July 29, 2008 4:55 am

    And you’ll still see it. Activision is the publisher, not the developer.

  5. Chad Lakkis
    on July 29, 2008 9:54 am

    Mad,

    To be clear. These games are not “dead”, they are just not going to be coming out under Activision Blizzard.

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