Who ya gonna call?

Awesome news indeed is sweeping across the Intertubes. The December issue of Game Informer has an exclusive - Vivendi Universial will be bringing us a new Ghostbusters game! Variety have even more details on what will be coming our way.

Not only will the original cast - Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Ackroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts (Janine Melnitz the secretary) and William Atherton (Walther Peck) - be providing voice overs, but the original (and fantastic) writing team of Murray, Ramis and Ackroyd will be writing the script. This will be as close to Ghostbusters 3 as we're likely to see.

Behold the obligatory screenshot:

The title will be coming to ... well, pretty much everything. All the current consoles, as well as the PS2 and the DS, as well as the PC. And it will be coming soon - autumn 2008 apparently.

That's pretty quick for a cross platform release, which hints at one of two things:
1) it's going to suck. Nooooooo!
2) The video of a Ghostbusters game by Zootfly that appeared - and disappeared just as quickly - on YouTube earlier this year was a sign - a portent - of what is to come.

Personally I'm desperately holding out for option 2.

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