Sierra has many titles in the works right now, and the ones scheduled for release sometime this year will stay on schedule. However, the titles that are currently in development and scheduled for a 2009 release are to have their fate decided soon by Activision.

Those of us who are eagerly anticipating The Bourne Conspiracy, Prototype, Brutal Legend, or Ghostbusters should just sit back, relax and wait for our games to hit shelves - they are safe. Sierra titles for 2009 though will have to be resubmitted to Activision and go through the approval process all over again.

Changes always happens when a new company buys your old one, and gaming is no exception. Hopefully all of the hard work that Vivendi’s Sierra line had put into these projects will not have been in vain, but you know something has to go and it may just be something you have looked forward to, so be prepared. One example of a conflict of interest may be Activision’s sequel to F.E.A.R. and Warner/Monolith’s Project Origin  -  I would sincerely hope that Activision is not dense enough to waste the time and money spent on these two massive projects - they may put them on  hold, but I doubt they feel the headsman’s axe any time soon.

When corporations merge, loads of changes happen and it is not always for the better. We will just have to wait and see how this goes down.

Source: Ben Fritz, Variety Online

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Sirerra Entertainment and Team 17 have put the rumors to rest regarding a new Leisure Suit Larry game by announcing Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and mobile phones. In this 3rd person adventure game, Larry takes a summer job working on his uncle Larry’s movie lot doing odd jobs and trying to uncover a mole from another studio who threatens to air the studio’s dirty laundry in the tabloids.

Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust is an innuendo-laden lampoon of Hollywood that features open world sand box game play that includes exploration, platforming, racing and puzzle-solving to complete missions. Additionally, the game will feature an all-new Directors Game that allows the player to create their very own “Larry Feature.”

The game will feature the usual expected sophomoric comedy from gamings favorite pervert, along with a cast of actors and actresses, including Jay Mohr, Dave Attell, Shannon Elizabeth, Carmen Electra, Artie Lange, Patrick Warburton, Jeffrey Tambor (hilarious!), Nikki Cox, Peter Graves, Jane Lynch and Josh Keaton as the voice of Larry Loveage.

Scripted by Allen Covert (Happy Madison Productions), Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust will be rated “M” for Mature, of course, and Vivendi Games Mobile will be in charge of the mobile version of the game throughout Europe and North America. The teaser trailer for Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust will exclusively premiere Friday, February 15 both on-air on Spike TV and other ComedyCentral websites. Expect the game to hit shelves this Fall.

Via: Press Release

Baris Karadogan, a venture capitalist with ComVentures, is predicting that a scaled-down version of World of Warcraft will be gracing mobile phones in 2008. According to Baris, “You will be able to play a small version of WoW on your cell to win a small number of experience points. The game will be different but it will be the extension of the overall experience. So when you have three hours free, you’ll play the real thing, when you have 30 minutes free you’ll play a small casual game on your PC that counts towards your experience in the big game and when you have 5 minutes free you’ll play the mobile handset version.”

Could the most popular MMO of all time really be headed to mobile phones? Don’t get in an uproar just yet as this has not been confirmed nor denied by Blizzard at this point, but a new form of playing our favorite MMO is not so far-fetched. Jeffery Steefel, the executive producer on Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online, spoke of this possible development of MMO interaction when CVG spoke with him last year.

During the interview, Jeffery mentioned: “I’ve got this thing called Lord of the Rings that my subscription, depending on how much money I pay, entitles me access to in different ways. Each device, each way of interacting, has a different strength and weakness. So I can manage my inventory on a cell phone very easily, I can do crafting on a cell phone. Doing a raid on a console? That’s cool. Doing more social things, chatting, maybe that’s better on a PC. Think of it that way - I built this game, now I’m going to translate it and put it on this thing, put it on that thing. It’s a broader vision, it’s harder, more risky, but that’s where we headed”.

I can see something like this occurring on a cell phone with a large enough screen such as the iPhone, but when the majority of us still own phones with puny little screens, it will cause nothing more than a headache. However, it is not something we should ridicule because we have seen huge strides and major growth in the mobile phone gaming venue this past year alone.

Via: CVG via WRAL

Hey, who wouldn’t want to punch a presidential hopeful in the face, or any politician for that matter? No matter what your political leanings are, everyone gets mad enough to warrant the fantasy of said punching, and a mobile entertainment site called Cellufun has launched a game where you can do this called “The Mobile Ring”. This is a free mobile phone boxing game that puts Presidential candidates in the ring, and while this is not a completely new idea, as the first such game was introduced during 2004, the new game boats that it will be taking it to the next level by “weighing the chance of success of each contender based on polling numbers, and also through the results of people playing the game”, according to TechCrunch.

To give you an idea of how this works lets use Hilary and Barack for an example. With Hilary leading over Barack in the polls, knocking out other candidates would give her a higher success rate in the game. Users can also vote on other characters for inclusion in “dark-horse candidates” which will be released at a later date. Although Ron Paul and our favorite leprechaun Dennis Kucinich are not included at this time, you can vote on cable television pundits and currently elected White House officials as well.

Want to know the scariest thing about this game? When you look at the video, notice the muscles on Hilary. It was enough to make just a little bit of vomit appear in my mouth.

Thanks for ruining my breakfast: TechCrunch

Oh goody. More reasons for people to drive like morons while playing with their cell phones. Sony Pictures Mobile has released their list of wondrous 2D games for your cell phone pleasure. Following in the footsteps of Spider-Man 3 (released May 4^th), are the soon to be released Casino Royale (shaken, not stirred), Snoop Dogg Boxing (fa shizzle ma bizzle) Ratchet and Clank, Jeopardy, Ghostbusters (?!?), and some God of War titles (I am so on those!). Spidey will also be starring in a puzzle game where you match symbols to continue on with your small-screened game.

God of War: Betrayal should be fun for a mobile game. What better way to hack and slash your way through ancient Greece and Olympus than on your mobile? Betrayal is the prequel to God of War II, and once again he is pitted against the Gods – this time accused of stabbing them in the back. Well, it is what the Olympians did best right?