Namco Bandai licenses Terminal Reality’s Infernal Engine

NAMCO BANDAI Games America has licensed Terminal Reality’s Infernal Engine for an upcoming Food Network branded cooking game, the company announced today. NAMCO BANDAI has selected the Infernal Engine to power the upcoming video game title Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked , developed by Red Fly Studio and scheduled for release later this year.

Terminal Reality will be showing the Infernal Engine to interested developers and publishers by appointment at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) from June 2 - 4 in Los Angeles.

You can learn about all the games using Terminal Reality’s middleware technology by visiting www.infernalengine.com.

Infernal Engine and the Great Outdoors

Developer Terminal Reality says that two upcoming simulation games from Piranha Games will showcase the power of its game development engine, the Infernal Engine. Infernal Engine is the technology behind Piranha Games’ bass fishing title The Strike, as well as their hunting simulation The Hunt.

The company also announced that it plans to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in June to show off its engine and to sign some contracts for those interested in licensing the technology.

More information on the Infernal Engine, visit www.infernalengine.com.

Ghostbusters, Infernal Engine at DICE

Terminal Reality will be showing off Ghostbusters this week at the DICE Conference in Red Rock, Nevada, and with it the engine technology upon which it is built. Beyond promoting the game, Terminal Reality is looking to license the game engine to other developers. Terminal Reality is scheduling private meetings at the DICE Conference (February 17 - 20). The engine is being showcased with a new video showcasing an updated and enhanced version of The Stranger (a popular character from Terminal Reality’s NOCTURNE game).

You can find out what there is to know about the company’s game engine technology by visiting www.infernalengine.com.

Ghostbusters is being developed by Terminal Reality and Red Fly Studios for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC, PS2, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Ghostbusters: The Video Game is expected on June 16th, 2009 in North America and June 19th, 2009, worldwide. It will be published by Atari.

Ghostbusters Set to Drop in June

It’s almost time to fire up the ol’ Ecto-1 again, Ghostbusters fans. Terminal Reality’s upcoming video game take on the classic comedy flicks has been lost in ethereal plane for some time now. First, the game was set to come out last year via a publishing deal with Activision. The game even got a huge push from the publisher at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Then, in the wake of the massive Activision/Blizzard merger, the game was surprisingly cut from the Activision lineup. Eventually, it ended up with a new home over at Atari, but with no firm release on the calendar other than sometime in 2009.

That all changed yesterday, though the news didn’t come out of Atari, but rather Sony Pictures, who is gearing up for the 25th anniversary of the Ghostbusters film debut. In a release sent out yesterday, Sony Pictures announced plans to bring the film to hi-def Blu-ray on the week of June 16th. The Blu-ray disc will be released, according to Sony Pictures, in time with the “simultaneous launch of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, the highly anticipated videogame from Atari, celebrates the film’s 25th anniversary, with an all-new adventure from by the film’s original writers.”

“This great franchise is one of the crown jewels in the studio’s library,” said Lexine Wong, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Senior Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing. “With Ghostbusters 25th anniversary upon us and the forthcoming release of an eagerly anticipated new video game, this is the perfect opportunity to release this exciting new edition on Blu-ray Disc.”

So, come the week of June 16th, gamers will finally get their hands on Ghostbusters, and both Activision and Atari will know for sure just how smart it was to cast off and pick up the eagerly anticipated title. For fans, all they’ll have to remember is “Don’t cross the streams!”

Atari Confirms Ghostbusters Publishing Rights

Who you gonna call? Apparently, Atari.

Confirming recent rumors, Atari officially announced this morning that it has secured the publishing rights to the hotly anticipated Ghostbusters: The Video Game after it went MIA from Vivendi during the post Activision/Blizzard merger fallout. The game will be released next year, timed to coincide with Sony Pictures’ planned 25th anniversary celebration of the film’s original theatrical release.

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