Activision Dropping Vivendi Games

The newly formed Activision Blizzard is making some tough calls regarding the slate of releases that the now absorbed Vivendi Games has been working on in 2008. Just five Vivendi game franchises are being continued by Activision Blizzard -- Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Ice Age, Prototype, and one other to be named later.

This leaves quite a few high-profile projects out in the cold, along with their development teams. Ghostbusters, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, Brutal Legend, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, and others are now in limbo, with Activision only saying that it is reviewing its options with each of those titles that it will not be publishing.

All have been in the works for some time. Ghostbusters, for instance, was due in stores before the end of the year, as was the World in Conflict expansion pack. This is a real blow to the PC, as well, since virtually all of the games apparently abandoned today had PC versions in the works, while the franchises kept were almost all kid-friendly console games.
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