Go ahead right now and call up your bookie, or call someone that will take a bet on anything because here are the winners for Spike TV's VGA 2009. If you are wondering where these results came from so early, Doc Brown hopped in the DeLorean and stole Biff's Sports Almanac, inside we found the results and cool directions on how to make our very own hoverboards.
Namco Bandai Games have today announced an exciting line-up of titles to be exhibited over three stands at the MCM Expo in Docklands Excel Arena over the weekend of the 24th-25th October. Amongst them will be the eagerly anticipated Massively Multi-player Online (MMO) game, Star Trek Online with Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World and Ghostbusters: The Video Game along with a Guinness World Record attempt for the longest winning streak on the imminent Tekken 6, set to launch on Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 on October 30th.
London MCM Expo is set to provide the grand opening for this year's London Games Festival, the capital's celebration of the best in videogame culture. Held at Excel on 24th-25th October, the Expo will be a gamers' feast, with top developers from across the globe giving visitors hands-on experience with the hottest new games as well as sneak peeks at their latest projects – often months in advance of their official release.
Today Namco Bandai Partners has confirmed the Ghostbusters game will be released on 23 October this year and players can expect to pick up the title on the 360, PC, Wii and DS.
This mid-year update allows Plastic Wax to reveal 2009 collaborations that had been kept under wraps for months: the opening cinematic and unlockable cinematic for Activision's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game, two different thirty-second television spots that mix live action and CG (which involved animating the classic Slimer character) for Atari's Ghostbusters, and the E3 2009 CG trailer to launch the new Relic/THQ title Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. Plastic Wax also has a number of unannounced videogame projects in the works, as well as a feature length film.
Bigdownload: Gamers were upset when it was learned a few days ago that the PC version of Ghostbusters would lack the multiplayer features that its Xbox 360 and PS2 counterparts have. We asked the game's publisher Atari for comment on this issue and they sent over a response from Dan Irish, the CEO of the game's multiplayer developer Threewave Software:
Atari's highly anticipated Ghostbusters: The Video game has just shipped across North America. This means that come Thursday it should be sitting on most game retailer's store shelves for our consumption.
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Let's Tap, Fate/unlimited codes PORTABLE, Class of Heroes, Flower, Sun, and Rain, and Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
Spook Central wrote: "On Friday I'll post a little bit of information on the DRM found on the PC version (yes, it has DRM), and some random information on what I found on the PC disc and what the PC's readme file tells you that you need to know before buying that version. It's rather crummy that Atari is forcing the DRM on us PC gamers, while also giving us the stripped down version - no online multiplayer co-op (or any online activities at all!) and no downloadable content for the PC version - while PS3 and Xbox gets it all! Apparently Atari forgets that PC gaming INVENTED those features!"
Following the snatch of European publishing rights by Sony, European copies of the game on none-Sony formats have consequently been delayed into an unknown release period. The PS3 and PS2 versions of the game are due to arrive on the 19th June. Retail sources are now suggesting the game has a date on other formats including Xbox 360, Wii and PC, which will be 30th October. Quite a long wait indeed.
Socroendo presents a consolidated list of all the Ghostbuster pre-order deals, choose wisely...
Ghostbusters is now available for pre-order, and depending on where you buy it you'll be able to score free in-game loot -- a gold proton pack, alternate Ghostbusters suit -- and outside of the game -- a bust of Slimer and and Ecto 1 keychain that lights up and sounds its siren. The tough part is that you can only get certain items by pre-ordering at certain stores, so look at the list below, and pre-order wisely.
Torrence Davis of The Bitbag writes, "I'm sure through all the hoopla, many people didn't notice that the Sony publishing deal with Ghostbusters was for Europe only."
GameZine: Sony Computer Entertainment today signed a deal with Atari to publish Terminal Reality's Ghostbusters, making the game a PlayStation (at least timed) exclusive.
The news came late in the Sony event at Sydney and it's big; the implications are even bigger.
The latest videogames set to take UK by storm this summer will be playable at the event, including Tekken 6, Ghostbusters and Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce, and many more from some of the most respected publishers in the industry; Capcom, Atari, KOEI, Ankama, Eidos and Rising Star Games. Plus, check out the latest releases in the world of anime and manga, make new friends at the various multiplayer areas for PlayStation Potables owners as well as for card-based games like Magic the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh!.
Now Gamer: We chat to the executive producer on Ghostbusters, Brendon Goss, who tells us exactly what happens when you cross the streams...
MTV Multiplayer writes: "Harold Ramis told us he didn't know what he was getting into when he started working on the new "Ghostbusters" video game.
Executive producer Brendan Goss revealed in an interview with Gamereactor that the developer was contacted by Sigourney Weaver (presumably her agent) after it was announced that Bill Murray would be returning as Peter Venkman in the game about reprising her role as Dana Barrett. At that late stage of production there was no chance of including her character as she had initially turned down an offer to be in the game.