http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/acti...ostbusters-game

I wasn't really following the game, but that does suck, considering how much effort seemed to be going into it.

Ghostbusters seems much too high profile and far along to can and this would be incredibly sudden since they had playable demoes at E3 I believe.

I'm sure Skankerzero would know for sure though provided he's not under an NDA or something.

This is some of the worst news I've ever heard in my entire life.

Response: http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-176563.aspx

Ghostbusters is one thing, I was also looking forward to Brutal Legend.

But never fear, cause theres always quality titles like Crash Bandicoot and Ice Age!!!


This sucks, period.

It's not canceled.

so, in other words, they simply didn't have it on the release list, so OMG CANCELLED RAGE!

do i have it right?

Yep. Got it in one.

Yeah, they had a large booth and a panel at SDCC this past weekend. They've sunk in too much promotion already to drop the game.

Jeez, don't scare me like that.

yeah my hart sank when I started reading this Im hopeing this goes extrwamly well and that it jump starts Ghostbusters 3 being made

they're pretty much considering this as ghostbusters 3.

there's been some talk of doing a cgi ghostbusters movie, maybe to take place after events of the games, or possibly based on a ghostbusters in hell script.



at least, that's what the rumour mill has churned out, anyway.

Well Harold and Dan are writing the script based on attempts for GB3, from just about everything I've read about the game. So I'd say this is probably the GB3 we would have gotten, more or less, if they had done it as a film. If we see a third GB movie, it might be nice if they have a few subtle references to game as stuff that happened between 2 and 3, like they had in 2.

I cannot comment on this.

bummer, for once i wanted news from the horses mouth without all the 'HE TELL ME!" that you normally get.
Good to see that it was just a spook and its not canned, iam looking forward to this game if only to see what happens when you cross the streams.

you automaticly get covered in mashmellow goo and sent back to the start of the game with your save file ercased

And that would the most kick ass and horrible thing ever to happen.

Damn, that would suck...losing ALL your progress and literally starting from square 1!

So is this like Hamburger in a can now?

http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2...busters-ga.html



Interesting...

Well, if I've waited this long for Ghostbusters 3, I can wait another year.

I agree with this statement, though:



So yeah. They have an extra year to iron out the kinks. This game had better be phenominal (and it looks like it will be).

If that do have a whole nother year to work on the game I wish they would include Ecto-1 driveing seqinces

hush you!

no need to give anyone ideas. I'd rather just polish the hell out of what we already have.

DRIVING SEQUENCE! DRIVING SEQUENCE!

he he work my minons work make my game mwhahaha!

I think the world has enough crappy tacked on driving segments.

Though if they gave you a ghost vacuum, that MIGHT make it fun.

I was looking at my girl's newest copy of Nintendo power. They have a big write up of the wii version along with screen shots, and it make mention of a DS version as well.
So canceled I'd say not

Whoa there Teccy....

Ironbite-Minions?

Yeah! It would be awesome if as you were driving the Ecto-1, you had to suck up ghosts along the road with a vaccuum! And the Ecto-1 is constantly running out of fuel, so you have to grab fuel drums along the way! Ooh Ooh! And if you bump into another car, you lose money!!!

Wait, I think I've played that game before.

So the game is officially canceled. Gamestop is refunding pre-orders, and that's not something done lightly.

A big license?

A month before release?

I just can't see "cancelled" I can see pushed back for a year or something but not just straight cancelled.

if thay can this game outright I want the E3 demo dang it

With all the write ups and everything it's hard to belive they are just gonna up and can this. I'de say the release date is in the air, but a game with as much hype as it's gotten, why kill it now? It's not impossible I'll admit. I'm still soar over Starcraft Ghost.

clarification needed. Officially cancelled according to the developer?

INSERT COIN STOP TOYING WITH MY EMOTIONS!

I refuse to acknowledge the game being cancelled. It's entirely too impossible.

I'm waiting to hear until we get a proper press statement or Skanker tells us so.

Kal it's not that i don't believe you, and I know you're not doing it for jives and giggles but I've worked at Gamestation in the UK and we used to get told stuff was cancelled all the time but it'd be promptly out after that.

Well, that's fine. No one has to believe me. But I've seen titles that get delayed for close to a year (Grand Theft Auto 4, Super Smash Brothers). Even if you look at it from that perspective, how long beyond a year does a title have to be 'delayed' before you assume its not coming out?

How sure does a company that sells the product have to be that a game isn't coming out that they will choke up millions of dollars of locked in sales via pre-order money to their customers, knowing they may never get it back?

I want it to come out too, and I'm very surprised by this news. And honestly, I wouldn't expect the person who works for the company to be the first to know anything. They are usually the last to know, and only find out when they have the morning meeting and get told "Alright everyone, good luck in the future, but your job is ended."

...Spy Hunter?

I wouldn't be surprised if they're refunding because it doesn't have a date. Even w/ games that have been delayed half a year, they still had dates. GB doesn't have a date period right now, so I'd imagine that's the main thing that prompted them to drop the preorders.

IF/when it does get dated, I imagine preorders will start up again quickly.

Waiting Skanker's reply too, though I found something that may clarify what's going on.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/report-activisi.html
It might just be canned in the sense like the author mentioned, that it's going to be handed off to someone else.

... I'm a little more upset that Brutal Legend was in that list of no-shows....

Im not buying it, with all the hype and stuff put out, hell, they overhauled the ecto 1 and put it on tour.

... So, apparently, a picture on the Double Fine productions blog, of a squashed beetle, bearing the mouseover text 'Brutal Legend is fine', means the game is running full steam.

...

Perhaps something a smidgen more... Concrete, would be nice...

Well, whatever guys. When you play GB let me know how it is.

This is the third or fourth time I've come in here, to you guys, with info and every single time I get the same "Well no offense Kal but I'm waiting for an official press outlet" and yet every time I've been right.

Where do you think these sites get their info from? From people like me who get company memos.

I am just telling you all as a courtesy. I guess I'll just stop wasting my time.

I think people just assume that retailers get half-assed info when it comes to official releases.

My problem is from when I worked at Gamestation, we did.

Again I'm not saying Kal is wrong, he prob isn't and at the very least he's made us aware there may be something and we're keeping our eyes peeled, I just want an official note from the developers to confirm it.

Nor do I say he's wrong. I too want final confirmation. He could be right, I could be right. Until confirmation comes one way or another, it's a flux.

I hope I'm right, as this is one of the few games I'm looking forward to.

As far as Kal's concerned... No, as far as his store is concerned, the game is canceled.

No, that's not right. That SKU of product is canceled.

If another publisher picks it up, then it's a new SKU altogether.

Ergo, the game *IS* canceled, as far as the store is concerned. That the same content will come out under a new SKU from a different publisher matters not.

So refunds were given, 'cause the original SKU the preorders were for, is dead.

They were passing out glow in the dark "Ghostbusters: the Game" neck-thingies as swag at PAX this weekend, so I REALLY doubt the game is truly canceled, as somebody is pumping money into advertising the game there.