“”The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!” ~ Mark Twain

As was reported earlier on GridCycle, Ghostbusters is set for a multi-platform release in North America on June 16th. However, there is new news where the European and Australian releases are concerned. Sony has struck a deal with Atari for sole distribution rights of the Ghostbusters title in these regions. What does that mean for the members of this site? Nothing. You can still purchase and pre-order your Ghostbusters game at will for the PS2, PS3 and the Xbox 360. What it does mean is that there are going to be a lot of Europeans pissed off about the “timed release” of the game. Though it will be exclusively a PlayStation title, sources say eventually it will be released to other platforms.

Link to CVG story.

Viva Ghostbusters!

Twin Galaxies announced on April 24th that Steve Wiebe set a new world record on Donkey Kong Jr.  Apparently, it was a live televised event.  According to the official announcement at the Twin Galaxies website, the previous records were set by two other people.  The first was set way back in 1983 by the legendary Billy Mitchell who was depicted as Steve Wiebe’s nemesis in the 2007 film King of Kong.  At that time, Billy scored 957,300.  Last year the crown was stolen by one Ike Hall of Port Angeles, Washington State with a whopping 1,033,000 points.  April 24th, 2009 Steve claimed the crown for one of his favorite games of all time with the massive score of  1,139,500 points.

Long live the King of Kong Jr.