That New Ghostbusters Game Looks Better Than I Thought
I mentioned Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime last week, when it was announced, and was a little deflated. But now that there’s a trailer for it, I’m slightly more… uh… flated. Yes, it’s an Xbox Live/PSN game, yes it focuses on multiplayer over single-player missions and story, and yes, none of the actual Ghostbusters or their actors have anything to do with it. But it looks like it’s kinda fun, and then there’s no harm in that. I guess if Atari delivered such a good Ghostbusters game that fans are inevitably disappointed by sequel, that’s kind of to Atari’s credit, isn’t it?
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.