Crazy week thus far. I got my computer back, already. Even though I lost all my files(again), cramming all I had ever saved on the 23 USB sticks I purchased at Curcuit City real quick before the thing went belly up. Hell, the guy decided to listen to me(seems like everyone listens when you flash a 20 dollar bill), and he installed XP. On my painfully annoying request, I wanted him to download those Vista themes suitable for XP. I kinda got used to the slick looks of Vista... So, I'm back on full power with the Vista looks to support it.

Development Hell

Paragraphs. Professional looking. I'm full of myself.

Anyway, Activision. Oh, my bad. "Activision-Blizzard", the two golden bricks Blizzard threw through the Window of Spend Your Time Well, Diablo and Warcraft, without the Blizzard name and fame within the Activision name, the CEO of the 'Vision must be goddamn insane. Alright, I suck at rhyming, it sounded catchy in my head.

They dropped several games.
First, I didn't give a damn. It happens all the time, and second, usually the games on the list wouldn't have caught my interest to begin with.

Before I rage on about how Activision-Blizzard's out of their damn minds for dropping such a line up, YES! I know GameSpot, IGN, etc, they all mentioned they were put in Limbo. They weren't terminated, they weren't dropped, they were set on the list "To Be Executed". But wouldn't you think that Activision-Blizzard would've considered the chances of profit, success and overall what the game itself is gonna reach, that basically it means "It's over, the project is off."?

If a game gets on the Blacklist. It won't get off. Atleast, not unless the Activision-Blizzard office gets raided Revenge of the Nerds-style over the fate of the game.

But back to what they're dropping, from the press release;

• Wet (Never heard of it)
• Ghostbusters (Some PR dude regret all he said, and now's claiming it isn't on the blacklist)
• Riddick: The Assault on Dark Athena (Bastards)
• World in Conflict: The Soviet Assault Expansion Pack (C'mon dammit! I wanted to be a Commie)
• 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (...Yeah)
• Zombie Wranglers (What?)
• Brutal Legend (Personally, havent heard of it. Seems like everyone else loves it)
• Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (<Insert Hugh Hefner quote here>)

Now why would they be dropping Soviet Assault? It's taking too long? Sounds reasonable, atleast for what they're creating, too much time needed.
What about Riddick? Sounds like it was all a wild yell of "RESSURECTION MONEY!!!".
The 50 Cent? No disrespect to him, nor his music. But making money out of people's flatout ignorance(Which is obviously the only reason why some actually bought the original one), better off gone.

The rest? Aside from Ghostbusters, I personally don't know, nor do I care. Why Ghostbusters was on this list in the first place, while there was a demo on ComicCon? Just to say "Here, this is what you're gonna miss out thanks to those Spyro loving assholes!"? Though, I'm seriously doubting the future of this game. Ghostbusters is a new IP, something that publishers would refuse straight away weren't it for the fact that all the writing work has been done before. I'd say, if it honestly were on this list, not as a mistake. I'm putting a fifty on this gig being cancelled by Christmas.

Still, it's a damn shame they're putting a stop to Soviet Assault. World in Conflict's a great game, a great game that needed a expension pack as soon as possible. Like C&C.