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Atari recently announced its financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31st, posting a reduced full-year loss of $23.8 million (19.4 million euros) compared to the previous fiscal year (loss of $272.4 million, or 221.9 million euros), with considerable drops in revenue, falling 15.2 percent year-over-year.
Revenues for the second half of the year fell even more sharply, down 42.4 percent, although this period also saw Atari return a profit to the tune of $4.7 million (3.8 million euros) – a vast improvement over the same period during the last fiscal year when the company recorded a loss of $210.3 million (171.3 million euro).
It seems Xbox 360, PC, Wii and DS owners in Europe will have to wait just a little longer to get their Ghostbusters fix, after Atari has unfortunately pushed the release date of Ghostbusters: The Video Game for those consoles back to November 6th in the region, after it was expected to release in late October.
It’s just been announced that a patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game has been released, which most importantly improves the visual resolution of the game, bringing it closer to the Xbox 360 version.
A representative for the game said:
Atari recently posted results for the first quarter of their financial year 2010, with improved revenues on the back of solid Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena sales.
First quarter revenues rose by 30 percent (as compared to the same period last year) to $77.78 million, as the US side of the business accounted for 83.5 percent of total revenues during the quarter. Profit information was not released.
An impressive 37 percent of Atari’s global revenues came from Xbox 360 titles, while 24.6 percent came from PS3 games and 12.1 percent from Wii titles, with additional platforms making up the rest of the pie.
It has finally come to be – Ghostbusters: The Video Game has been given an official launch date for the UK and Europe, now set to release in late October on Xbox 360, PC, Wii and DS.
After months of rumours about whether or not it was in development, a surprise reveal, the loss of a publisher, a new publishing partner and release date delay, and then a last-minute switch in publishing arrangements, Ghostbusters: The Video Game has finally been released, and if you’re a true-blue Ghostbusters fan, the wait has definitely been worth it.
From the excellent story, humorous dialogue (written by original Ghostbusters Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd), pitch perfect voice acting (voiced by original Ghostbusters cast) and great pacing (just pushing you to the limits, and then rewarding you with some great cinematics and the afore-mentioned voice acting), this third-person action adventure game provides what is probably as good a Ghostbusters experience you can get, interactive or otherwise.
As a piece of interactive entertainment (i.e. a game), Ghostbusters: The Video Game also delivers a quality performance that, while not as pitch perfect as the acting and writing, and containing a few oversights that the developers should have ironed out, is only a few steps away from being the quintessential Ghostbusters game that future, similarly themed games can look up to.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Ghostbusters: The Video Game for the PS3.
The Major recently announced that a demo for the excellent Ghostbusters: The Video Game… game, has gone up on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and is now available to download. From the post:
“The Ghostbusters are back for an all new adventure! The year is now 1991: Who haunts Library? What happened to the Grey Lady? Try this demo to get a taste of the new supernatural spectacular haunting Manhattan.”
The demo is only available in North America, but there have been reports that it’s also downloadable in other parts of the world. You’ll unfortunately just have to have a look-see yourself, then.
Look forward to El33tonline’s review of Ghostbusters: The Video Game soon.
Courtesy of his “friends at Terminal Reality,” developers of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Major Nelson has put up some sound files from the game that would be perfect for short, sonic alerts, such as a cellphone ringtone, an online messenger alert or perhaps something else.
The files are available in two flavours – either the original master audio files in WAV (3.5 MB), or the compressed MP3 format (316 KB) – in two different .zip files.
Click the links below to get your preferred format and add these sounds to… well, whatever you please!
In what is a more indicative state of sales, Prototype (sales down 20%) has taken the top spot on the UK Software Sales Chart this week, now being allowed a full week at retail to claim No. 1, as opposed to last week when it had only been on sale for two days, leading to it being pipped by The Sims 3.
Sales for Prototype were unevenly split between its platforms, as 61% of sales were recorded on Xbox 360, 36% on PS3 and 3% on PC.
Gametrailers have released a comparison video featuring a head-to-head look at Ghostbusters: The Video Game on both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.
As usual, the differences between the game on the different platforms are extremely slight, although the Xbox 360 version does seem a little sharper. Will you even notice when you’re caught in the middle of busting some ghosts, though?
Watch the video comparison between the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Ghostbusters: The Video Game below:
For those of you who watched the original Ghostbusters movies, you’ll remember Janine Melnitz, the ghost busting crew’s secretary. Well, she’ll be making an appearance in the upcoming game, voiced by the original actress, Annie Potts.
Watch the Ghostbusters: The Video Game trailer below to see her doing the voice acting thing:
Atari have recently released the debut trailer for the multiplayer component of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, and it sure looks insane! Watch below:
It’s been announced that Sony (as opposed to Atari) will be publishing the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game in PAL regions, and will result in a timed exclusive release of the game on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 on June 19th, while the PSP, Xbox 360, Wii and DS versions of the game will follow a little later. Vice President of Licensing-Interactive for Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc., Mark Caplan said:
“With our colleagues at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe publishing Ghostbusters: The Video Game, we are thrilled by the dynamic new Ghostbusters game. We think it will have tremendous appeal to gamers and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this beloved franchise.
“With this superb game launching alongside the Blu-ray release, we will reach existing fans and the next generation, bringing them all into the irresistible Ghostbusters universe.”
Good for PlayStation owners, but other console owners will get theirs soon enough.
Even though the game is only releasing in mid-June, you can watch the opening cinematic for Ghostbusters: The Video Game right now! Lucky!
The cinematic shows the basic set-up behind the game, revealing why, in fact, the Ghostbusters once again need to be roused from their firehouse to fend off the paranormal goings-on. Watch below:
Aw yeah, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, only this trailer is for the Wii version of the game. No man left behind, and all that.
Ghostbusters on the Wii is looking to be a different game altogether, as far as the visuals go, with much more stylised characters, colours and environments, and it looks as though the art direction is actually working out, so you don’t really notice the lower polygon counts and less detailed textures… oops.
The game also obviously takes advantage of the WiiMote and Nunchuck setup, which is hopefully pulled off well.
Watch the debut trailer for Ghostbusters: The Video Game on the Wii below, and make up your own dang mind:
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