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Atari Talks Ghostbusters Date, Popular Franchises

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-guess-we're-gonna-call-atari dept.

Early last month, Atari announced the production of a new Ghostbusters game featuring many of the original actors and set for some time in 2009. Now, they've announced that the game will be scheduled for June. Atari executives also took the opportunity to discuss several of their popular franchises, saying they had plans to revisit the Neverwinter Nights series as well as Baldur's Gate. A console version of The Witcher was confirmed, and Atari detailed "a partnership with famed rhythm-game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Q! Entertainment on a new music-based game for the Wii. Details on the game are slim, and it's operating under the working title 'QJ.'"

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  1. When the opportunity for a... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    new Ghostbusters games comes along, who are you gonna call? Certainly not Atari.

  2. Re:Billy Murray.. by andy9701 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Originally, Ghostbusters was to be published by Vivendi/Sierra. However, when Vivendi merged with Activision to form Activision/Blizzard, they decided that they didn't want to publish this game (since they couldn't "monetize" this game every year...yay greed). Atari eventually came along and scooped up the rights to publish it.

    I think originally it was supposed to be released around this time of year, however it was delayed for some reason (supposedly due to the merger, but that seems kind of odd to me).