Well, if you’re a fan of the movie, like me, you may already know that Ghostbusters is more about jokes then scares, but there also was a creepy side to it. I mean that’s what made Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters. And what should make the game any different?

Appearently, shifting from Sierra to Atari gave Terminal Reality sometime to work on Ghostbusters creepy side. When speaking in London today CVG was told by Drew Haworth of Terminal Reality that, “[Terminal Reality] added some more creepy elements, a couple of more puzzle elements… we feel that the combat is in a very solid spot.”

Ghostbusters: The Game was one of the most unfortunate victims of Activision’s merger with original publisher Vivendi, which left the game floating in limbo, until Atari came to TR’s rescue.

“[The move to Atari] allowed us to go back and tweak and see ‘oh, this experience would be enhanced here by adding more scares, more cooldown areas… – pacing basically. We also upgraded some of the in-game cinematics.” add Haworth.

“It wasn’t frustrating as much as our course has changed now,” Haworth said of the switch. “We were certainly happy to get a new publisher. After Vivendi decided not to publish the game we were surprised more than anything else. It also allows us an extension to polish and improve the quality of the game”.

When Activision dropped most of there upcoming games for the merger with Blizzard, that we thought were going to be good, the video game version of the hit movie Ghostbusters was a victim. Then there was that rumor going around that the game was happily picked up by the guys over at Atari, and soon after that things changed.

Now, Atari has confirmed that the game will be releasing in June of next year, which by the is way more specific than “sometime in 2009.” However, the other games dropped by the merger have been pick up for next year release dates.

While we are still waiting to get our hands on the game, we can only stop an wonder what or who will be getting their hands on the Ghostbusters video game. I personally have been waiting for this game since its announcement, and there’s a whole lot of games I have been waiting for, but it’s Ghostbusters and I love Ghostbusters.

When speaking at a radio station in Dallas called 105.3 KLLI, Dan Aykroyd, who was in the original Ghostbusters movie, told them that Atari has indeed picked up the publishing rights for Ghostbusters. The game was recently in “limbo” because Activision didn’t have the means to pick the game up after its combination with Vivendi games.

Three years ago, 50 cent was Bulletproof. Now, three years later 50 cent is ready to leave “Blood On The Sand”, well not anymore. Today according to the guys over at Kotaku, the sequel to discography-cum-video game 50-Cent: Bulletproof, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand has been canceled. According to the information given to them, the team behind it, Swordfish was likely to be sold off that’s why the game was cancelled. If this rumor happens to be true, yeah it’s a rumor, Blood on the Sand will be the latest casualty of Activision’s purchase of Vivendi Games.

The game was set to take place in the Middle East were 50 Cent was doing a show with G-Unit and after the show G-Unit and 50 go to collect there money and the promoter refuses to pay 50 Cent and G-Unit. The plot kind of goes down hill from there. The game did have some very strong showing like in it’s latest trailer called “World Wide Gangster”.

Update: Sources close to Swordfish Studios have told GamesIndustry.biz that 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand has not been cancelled, despite internet rumours.

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that video game company Radical Entertainment will be laying off about 100 employees, which is almost half its staff. The decision was made by the company’s owner, Activision Blizzard, to reduce the number of titles Radical produces.

“Activision Blizzard is committed to making the best games possible and has elected at this time to reduce the number of titles that Radical is developing from four games to two,” Leah Rubin, Radical’s vice-president of human resources, in an email. “Therefore, we will be proportionately reducing the size of our studio.”

Activision Blizzard said it would go ahead with five games including Radical’s Crash Bandicoot, and Prototype, a new game created by Radical that will debut in 2009. The reductions come in the wake of an ownership change last month that saw France-based Vivendi, which owns Radical, and American video software company Activision, join forces as Activision Blizzard.

Activision has revealed some very shocking information today, they have announced that they’ll be droping several of Vivendi’s titles. The downside of this announcement is that other Vivendi Games (namely Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Brütal Legend, WET, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and World in Conflict: Soviet Assault) are not being kept by Activision.

“The only franchises that Activision Publishing will release are based on Crash Bandicoot, Ice Age and Spyro, as well as Prototype, and one other game that has not yet been announced,” said an Activision representative. “We are reviewing our options regarding those titles that we will not be publishing.”

[Activision Drops Several Vivendi Games via IGN]

Sometime back many websites reported that LucasArts wouldn’t be attending this years E3 events because they stop working with Activision as a regards to the European market. Well, think again. We got news that LucasArts will indeed be delivering the force this E3 event. In addition, to the news we also got word that the collaboration with Activision on the European market was not on the agenda.