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Brutal Legend, Ghostbusters, more dropped by Activision

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Jul 28, 2008 7:42 pm PT

Publisher passes on a slew of Vivendi Games' in-development titles; 50 Cent, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, Wet also affected.

Earlier today, Activision Publishing announced a streamlining of its Vivendi Games operations, saying it would be bringing into the fold five of that company's franchises: Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Ice Age, Prototype, and one unannounced game.

An Activision representative later confirmed for GameSpot that those would be the only Vivendi Games franchises coming out of the publisher. That leaves a number of high-profile projects in limbo, including Double Fine Productions' Brutal Legend, as well as 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, plus several 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."

Activision Blizzard has other publishing arms like Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Value that were not covered by the press release and could be among the options being reviewed. As of press time, representatives from those companies did not return requests for comment.

A scheduled Comic-Con International panel on the Ghostbusters game was abruptly cancelled last week, with no explanation given to attendees. However, the game was on the show floor in playable form.

[UPDATE]: A Sierra Games representative told GameSpot he couldn't speak about all the titles on the list in need of a publisher, but stressed that Ghostbusters is not canceled.

592 Comments

  • andalore

    Posted Aug 12, 2009 4:55 pm PT

    wow this is beyond pathetic, why drop Ghostbusters and the chronicles of riddick for Ice age? what happened to good old common sense?

  • Raginmar

    Posted Jun 4, 2009 10:19 pm PT

    What the hell was this about...I didn't expect I 'd say that,but Activision just dropped behind EA.

  • gedo

    Posted Apr 9, 2009 3:35 am PT

    my God is wet cancelled? say it isn't so.

  • solidstein

    Posted Mar 16, 2009 7:42 am PT

    im really hoping someone picks up WET maybe ubisoft i mean look you get a game that you has already been produced pretty much so you dont have to pay the extreme production costs therefore they could make a pretty penny off it also activision said they only want games that can produce yearly cycles thats stupid activison is becoming a EA greedy

  • eeStewart

    Posted Feb 23, 2009 3:59 am PT

    "Ghostbusters is not canceled"
    Thank God!

  • SlayerUnas

    Posted Feb 22, 2009 9:21 am PT

    I had hopes for Activision in reality. They usualy bring out a good product. I really hope Wet can get it's highlights on the shelves, maybe Capcom can publish it, they'd make some good dough, so many people are anticipating that game. Ghostbusters looks good, but I'm worried that the game will actualy be a sorded piece of crap when you actualy play it.

  • _AbBaNdOn

    Posted Jan 31, 2009 5:58 am PT

    What a freaking joke.

  • doitkid

    Posted Jan 30, 2009 1:39 pm PT

    This should be the letter Activision releases following this news: Dear Gamers,

    We know that many people may be upset by our recent decision to cut back some of our production and publishing goals. However, we want you to know that we believe that what we are doing is in the best interest of the company. By continuing to actually make decent games that people want to play we will be contributing to the laziness that is dragging down the economy. So therefore Activision has decided to make the worst games possible, because it is in the best interests of everyone. Thank you for playing.

    GAME OVER

  • Wolf_Fox32

    Posted Jan 16, 2009 12:30 am PT

    i hope Wet doesnt get cancelled, i was lookin forward to that game.

  • NI_paolo

    Posted Nov 10, 2008 9:53 am PT

    WiC cancelled for Spyro!?

  • eep002

    Posted Oct 31, 2008 4:18 am PT

    'Despite 40% jump in quarterly revenue, losses lead megapublisher to pink-slip more than 500 employees; Madden sells 4.5 million' I think we have all had enough of this crap.
    Hey! I have an Idea. Lets cut all of the CEO/CFO salaries by 90 percent, recover the last 3 years of bonus $ from them and then give 50 percent of the people their jobs back and publish all of the games! Or is it FINALLY time for all of us to GET OFF the COUCH and kick some REAL BUTT off the screen!!

  • S-Wade

    Posted Oct 27, 2008 11:41 am PT

    *crosses his fingers* Wet needs a publisher, was looking forward to that game! As well as Ghostbusters!

  • FrankieDooSpace

    Posted Oct 23, 2008 4:34 pm PT

    I was also looking forward to Ghostbusters for Halloween! Damn companies!

  • FrankieDooSpace

    Posted Oct 23, 2008 4:33 pm PT

    GHOSTBUSTERS! We want it!

  • zacattack214

    Posted Oct 19, 2008 8:21 pm PT

    Well I hope Wet gets a publisher, I think it could do very well.

  • SaintAjora

    Posted Oct 18, 2008 11:40 am PT

    Those people need to die a peasants death! =O I can't belive they would do that! I was so excited about Soviet Assault and Ghostbusters! This is laaame!
    From now on I'm thinking twice about buying a Activison game -_-

  • MrGordons

    Posted Oct 3, 2008 7:54 am PT

    Wet...

  • lop890

    Posted Sep 27, 2008 4:25 pm PT

    good games cancelled for garbage games wt**** people spyro the dragon ice age has thw world gone mad! i know where this is going some1 buying a company so cancelled games are coming up worse only trash game coming out

  • surppo

    Posted Sep 24, 2008 5:40 pm PT

    man somebody needs to pick up brutal legend and at least riddick how could they pick ice age over them i guess all about a dolla who ever picks up brutal legend is gonna see crack money

  • metroidhunterx

    Posted Sep 3, 2008 11:48 pm PT

    Supperdude9,
    The game isn't coming out because it was dropped by Activision as the publisher. This does not mean that they won't be picked up by another one. Generally, GameStop won't allow the reserve of a title that hasn't got a relatively solid release date, and being that they haven't gotten a new publisher yet, there's no guarantee of its future existance. Once they pick up a new publisher, however, you can rest assured that the title will be available for reserve once more. Let's just hope that Ghostbusters won't be dropped again by another publisher.

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