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.
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Mike Jackson from CVG writes:

"A patch for the PS3 version of Ghostbusters has just been release, most significantly increasing the games resolution to match that of the 360, following the internet uproar. Making all that noise seemed to work.

Here's the official word..."
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Retailer Amazon.com on Sat. price cut Activision Inc.'s Ghostbusters: The Video Game Exclusive Slimer Edition for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, and Nintendo Co.'s Wii by $30 in a one-day sale.
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Almost a month after it's exclusive PS3 launch in Europe, there is finally word from official sources that a patch is in the works for Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

The game has had it's fair share of problems during it's development, with multiple publishers picking it up over the years, with the last being Sony in Europe who set it as a time-exclusive for the PS3 until October.

However, Xbox fans may never know the issues that the PS3 gamers have had to endure this last month, freezes and lockups so bad that a gamer must power off their PS3 by the rear rocker switch. Glitched Trophies that have the "Plat Club" gamers tearing their hair out, and errors when players from Europe and Australia try to play with players from the US. Not to mention issues with gamesave data not loading or corrupting.

None of these issues are mention in reviews online and offline, yet to any Ghostbuster: The Video Game owner are very common place now. This is particularly frustrating to owners as despite these glitches, it has been a well received game, scoring quite highly. Most frustrating is the lack of any official word to these troubled gamers, thankfully I have now received responses to my calls and emails and am pleased to pass onto fellow GB:TVG owner's confirmation from Andy Barnes at Sony Computer Entertainment UK and Dan Irish, CEO of Threewave Software, the company behind the Multiplayer of GB: TVG.

According to their emails, while not a definite date, it does confirm the patch is in production and could see itself being downloaded and installed on PS3's by September, almost certainly before the Xbox 360 release.
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Welcome to the weekly PlayStation Deals.

This week is another great week for deals, and since August is looking pretty rough on good game releases now is the time to catch up on some older games.
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Atari, one of the world's most recognized video game publishers, announced today that it has sold one million units of Ghostbusters: The Video Game across North America. The highly anticipated title was released on June, 16, 2009 and has quickly become one of the hottest video games of the summer.
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In Lyon, France today Atari has announced its fiscal results for the first quarter ended June 30. Total revenues were up 30.1% to 54.5 million euros, thanks mainly to the success of two titles: Ghostbusters: The Video Game and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

The U.S. business drove the bulk of sales with 45.5 million euros in the quarter, which is an 82% increase. This offset a nearly 49% decline in the European business, as revenues dropped to 8.6 million euros. In the U.S., Atari also noted that it saw improved third-party distribution revenues, which now represent approximately 33% of U.S. Distribution revenues (thanks to local distribution deals with ZOO Games and CDV Software Entertainment).
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"It's not often that the public gets word of what it costs to make a specific game. But a multi-million-dollar range was given for the latest Ghostbusters game in a Texas newspaper.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram fingered the cost of development for the game at $15 million to $20 million."
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A demo for Atari's Ghostbusters: The Video Game has arrived and is now available for download.
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Mike Kebby from the Official EU PlayStation Blog confirmed that the Ghostbusters demo coming next week with the PlayStation Store Update:

"Posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm by Mike Kebby
Ghostbusters demo should be coming in next week's update."
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