Ghostbusters Articles

Last updated Monday, January 5, 2009

As interesting articles appear concerning Ghostbusters, they will be posted here.

As always, you can find up-to-the-minute info about all things related to Ghostbusters (not just the videogames) at dedicated fan sites Proton Charging, Spook Central and GBFans.

January 2009

Gamespot wrote up a comprehensive preview of Ghostbusters.

Mail Online is eager to play Ghostbusters in the coming year.

December 2008

Videogamer.com featured a great preview of Ghostbusters, giving equal time to the next-gen and Wii versions.

Atari has released an extensive playthrough video narrated by Creative Lead Dustin Dobson showing off a lot of the neat features specific to the Wii version. Watch it on Gamereactor.

I’m very pleased that Boing Boing’s Offworld site picked up the story, as well.

/gamer also picked up the story, adding their own commentary which is quite favorable.

Michael DePalma, Long Island Movie Examiner from Examiner.com, talks video games as he focuses on the Ghostbuster’s move from the big screen to game console.

The Awesomest Thing on the Internet today is Ghostbusters the videogame. TBT posted the high-res trailer for the Xbox360/PS3 version of the game.

Randy Nelson at Joystiq got his hands on both versions of Ghostbusters recently, and he shares his impressions in an extensive article on Joystiq.
If you’ll allow me to swell a bit with pride:

“At this point, our pick for the best-playing version goes to the Wii, hands down.”

Nice!

We knew from the start that Ghostbusters would draw a big crowd. Not just gamers, but most of the people we grew up with fell in love with Ghostbusters as kids. The release of the Ghostbusters trailer featuring some funny lines written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis pleases everyone.

Perhaps the best example is this posting from a blog dedicated to movies. The author Christopher Campbell freely admits that he hates games, but he’s such a huge Ghostbusters fan, even he is looking forward to seeing what comes from the minds of the original cast and the hands of developers Terminal Reality and Red Fly Studio.

Following yesterday’s big announcements and the release of the new trailer from Atari, Ghostbusters has received a ton of press these past couple of days.

My favorite headline:

Confirmed: Ghostbusters Video Game to be Greatest Thing Ever

High expectations, indeed. We won’t disappoint.

Even though our fellow developer Zen implemented Ghostbusters DS, the original design came from us, so we’re proud when people enjoy the handheld experience.

Jared Rea at The Escapist is the first journalist I’ve seen give equal time to all three versions of Ghostbusters, DS, Wii and Xbox360/PS3, as they are all unique in their own ways.

This trailer features all the high-res graphics from the Xbox360/PS3 version of the game. It’s pretty cool.

AJ Glasser at Kotaku got his hands on the Wii version of Ghostbusters and recognized that we made it specifically for the Wii. Art, layout, controls: everything about Ghostbusters for the Wii is custom-designed to take maximum advantage of the Wii and target the Wii-owning audience.

… Luckily, Ghostbusters: The Video Game on Wii isn’t a port of the PS3/360 version, so much as a reimagining of the same game from the ground up…

Thanks AJ. We’re glad someone is finally paying attention to that critical detail.

Kotaku and many other sites are reporting on Atari’s official statement about next summer’s release date for Ghostbusters.

November 2008

Take your pick of news sources to read about Atari’s acquisition of the Ghostbusters games.

Kotaku ran a brief story about Atari executive Phil Harrison discussing their acquisition of the Ghostbusters game.

Gamasutra reports that Atari has picked up the title from Sierra and will publish the game next year to coincide with the re-release of the original movies.

GameInformer also has a nice write-up.

July 2008

Jonathan at movie blog site Row Three plans to pick up a copy of Ghostbusters when it comes out.

E3 coverage:

EuroGamer has just posted a superb interview with Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters’ Winston Zeddemore). It’s quite good.

June 2008

Ghostbusters progress report, featured on IGN.

May 2008

Andrew Clark at The Wiire breaks it down properly, actually mentioning our half of the upcoming Ghostbusters title. Seems like the Xbox360 and PS3 version have been getting all the love lately.

April 2008

Sierra showed off its upcoming line of new releases last week. Featured prominently was Ghostbusters.

Joystiq remains cautiously optimistic.

Kotaku had nice things to say as well.

GBFans.com posted many, many photos of a neat event Vivendi held in Minnesota promoting the upcoming Ghostbusters game. Behold: The Ecto-1.

Let the nerdgasms erupt!

Tech and game sites like Boing Boing and Kotaku and several others were all over it.

January 2008

Gamespy lists Ghostbusters as one of their Most Wanted games for 2008.

December 2007

This is my favorite article so far!

Australia’s Couriermail.com.au wrote up an article. International!

CVG posted a bunch of new screenshots of TRI’s PS360 build. Excitement for the title builds!

The guy from IGN Australia was very excited to play our demo.

More mainstream press on Ain’t It cool News.

AMC reports the details on the Wii/PS2 version.

Worth Playing did a full write-up.

Bit-tech reports on the games. Ping their forums for more.

A cool aspect of working on this project is how the enthusiasm extends from the game world into the mainstream movie world. There have been countless movie-to-game projects, but few have as massive a following as Ghostbusters.

We’d like to remind everyone that the Wii version of the game will have every single line of dialog from the PS360 version of the game. Just because we’re putting a heavy emphasis on multiplayer doesn’t mean we won’t be using every asset provided by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and the other cast members. It would be pure folly to not integrate every line of genius dialog into our game!

TVG reports on the DS version.

Next Generation reports on the DS version

Kotaku and the fanbase sound off on the DS version. (We love the Kotaku crowd. Such love! Such hate! The gamers’ passion is awesome!)

Games Radar reveals a little more about the Wii version of Ghostbusters (albeit alongside a screenshot of the Xbox36o/PS3 version).

DS Fanboy has high hopes for the DS version of Ghostbusters. Zen Studios won’t let them down.

The Blogosphere is abuzz with excitement about our game!

This isn’t directly related to the game, but check out this article on Proton Charging to see how much excitement there is for Ghostbusters stuff.

Australia’s Herald Sun wrote up a nice article summarizing the game.

PocketGamer and Nintendic reported the announcement of the DS version.

As always, feedback on Kotaku is passionate! Even though this article is focused on the PS360 build, I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that multiplayer (co-op, competitive and adversarial) are the key features focused on in the Wii build.

November 2007

Further information

UK’s OXM revealed more information about multiplayer, as reported online by CVG.

More impressions

Infendo writer Derek pleads his case for Ghostbusters.

N-Europe wrote up a nice little piece about the game.

This one seems to be Dutch.

Screenshots have been released into the wild.

It’s always encouraging to hear people share their enthusiasm for the project.

Kotaku brings the fans out. Their comments sections are always lively.

Teaser Trailer

Sierra released a brief teaser trailer the day of the formal announcement. Reactions:

Games Radar wrote up a very nice article in reaction to the announcement.

Initial Announcements

The videogame world reverberated with the news when Game Informer dropped their cover a few days early. It was just a little tease with very little actual information, but the implications woke up the internet with chatter.