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Pixel Counters Must Die

Halo 3 and Ghostbusters, despite being released years apart, have one thing in common. Both games were heavily scrutinized,... more

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Sorry Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made | Caitlin Moran - Times Online

It's actually a matter of opinion, but this is still a good read.

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Ghostbusters Videogame Review

The game's out now, and if you're not sure whether you should part with £40, then maybe you should watch this... more

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The Weekend Peekend 6/18/09

Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox take a peek at what's coming up this weekend with Year One, Whatever Works, & The Proposal.... more

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Ghostbusters: The Video Game - Trophy Guide

a guide to getting every trophy

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Ghostbusters May Not Be Region Free

A number of reports have confirmed that the North American edition of the Ghostbusters game for the Xbox 360 will be region free.... more

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Ghostbusters Single Player and Co-Op Impressions

Co-Optimus has had some lengthy hands on time with the new Ghostbusters videogame, and while they aren't ready yet to give... more

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Ghostbusters on Blu-Ray

The three misfit parapsychology professors that were booted out of their cushy jobs at New York City's Columbia University... more

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Can a Ghostbusters videogame revive the movie for a new generation? 'Yes!' says Dan Aykroyd.

It's 25 years since the Ghostbusters team busted their way on to the big screen. But can a videogame revive the movie for a new generation? 'Yes!' the film's creator Dan Aykroyd says.

The first rule of Ghostbusters: don't cross the streams. As even the most basic of aficionados knows, whenever New York supernatural vigilantes Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore allowed the Proton Streams from the Particle Accelerators to touch, calamity would ensue.

Ghostbusters might have laid dormant forever, had the franchise not been given a shot of life by the long-developed next-gen videogame. Determined to make their product more than a crappy tie-in, developers Terminal Reality consulted Aykroyd about donating likeness rights. He ended up offering to write the script. "I saw it right away," says Aykroyd. "It took me two seconds to realise that this would be great."

Even Murray returned - not with a hatful of diva demands, but wanting an assurance that Winston Zeddemore, the underwritten black character from the movies, would be elevated to full status. And so to all intents and purposes, The Video Game is, effectively, Ghostbusters 3. A period piece, it takes place two years after the events of the second movie and sees Manhattan once again under threat. It's closer in scale to Aykroyd's original vision but in canon terms, it's the next chapter of the story.

And now for the supernatural bit: after coming together for the game, all the players have stated their intentions to go back, and a script is being written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, writers on the US Office. According to reports the original cast will act as mentors, handing the company over to a new generation, likely to be from the Seth Rogen and Steve Carell class of actors who are filling up just the same space in Hollywood as Aykroyd and Murray once did. "There'll be a whole new generation that has to be trained and a leader that you'll all love when you meet her," says Aykroyd. "There'll be lots of cadets, boys and girls who'll be learning how to use the neuron splitter and the inter-planet interceptor - new tools to enable them to slip from dimension to dimension."

That is, of course, if they decide that movies are even the way to go any more. "I have what I think are two great cool science fiction stories myself right now and I think I'm gonna skip the movies altogether and find some gamers, maybe go with these guys again. I'll just give them the scripts and say, 'pretend this movie got made'."

But with sequels to the game already being thought about aloud, Ghostbusters' future looks assured - in whatever dimensionIt's 25 years since the Ghostbusters team busted their way on to the big screen. But can a videogame revive the movie for a... more