Activision supposedly pulls publishing plug on Ghostbusters, WET and more
Following on from their recent merger Activision representative have confirmed to GameSpot that the company will only be publishing five of Vivendi’s upcoming franchises in the future – Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Ice Age, Prototype, and one unannounced game. The rest have apparently been tossed to the wayside by the company.
If you have not being keeping up to date with Vivendi announcement recently those other games are stuff like Wet, Ghostbusters, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, World at Conflict: Soviet Assault, 50 Cent Blood on the Sand, Brutal Legend, Zombie Wranglers, Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, and a collection of Xbox Live Arcade titles.
“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,” the representative said. “We are reviewing our options regarding those titles that we will not be publishing.”
At this time it is unknown what will happen the games affected, and no party involved with the titles has chosen to comment that this point. A deal could still be struck for Activision to publish some of them, a new publisher may have to be found at this late stage, or some of the games could sadly slip into limbo and never see the light of day on store shelves.
5 comments ↓
The GSK
July 29th, 2008
Activision you can kiss my *ss crack. You seriously think Spyro would sell more than the 3rd movie of GHOSTBUSTERS in videogame form. I hope you pay dearly if you lose this and other IP’s or worse cancell them. A- holes.
Jadon
July 29th, 2008
I read on another site they mentioned “We are very excited to add such recognisable and successful brands as Crash Bandicoot, Ice Age and Spyro, which reinforce our leadership position in movie-based and family entertainment video games,”
Movie-Based, ie GHOSTBUSTERS! activision is failure, I’m going to complain/cry to the creator, whom I know personally.
Monkey Rimmer
July 29th, 2008
Ok, so they ditch the GOOD games in favour of tat that they can peddle to kids. Spyro?! Crash Bandicoot?! Shite! Riddick and especially Ghostbusters were two I was looking forward to! Way to go Activision, I can see the liquidation happening already. Thanks for the happy memories, and RIP.
Faroon
July 29th, 2008
Outrageous – Ghostbusters was shaping up nicely. Gah.
And Meh.
Muhammad-Oli
July 29th, 2008
“[...]recently those other games are stuff like [...] 50 Cent Blood on the Sand[...]”
THANK GOD! 50 Cent doesn’t deserve to even be famous let alone make music and have his own games.