{"id":9856,"date":"2016-04-17T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=9856"},"modified":"2016-04-17T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T15:35:52","slug":"activision-sony-pictures-announce-new-ghostbusters-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/04\/activision-sony-pictures-announce-new-ghostbusters-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision &#038; Sony Pictures Announce New &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision and Sony Pictures has announced a pair of new <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> video games set in and inspired by the comedic action world of the upcoming <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> film, which hits theaters on July 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place after the events of the new movie, both <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> games introduce new casts of rookies keeping watch over the station while the now-famous Ghostbusters tour the country stopping high-profile poltergeists. When paranormal phenomena unleash apparitions across New York City, these new squads of recruits must don their proton packs and wrestle those rogue spirits back to the afterlife!<\/p>\n<p>The console game, <em>Ghostbusters<\/em>, is a third-person action role-playing game positively charged for thrilling couch co-op with up to four players locally. As rookie Ghostbusters, players can level up their characters\u2019 gear and abilities by tackling objectives, defeating ghastly creatures and discovering hidden collectibles in Manhattan\u2019s most haunted haunts. There are four heroes to choose from, and each has his or her own unique personality and play style, bringing special strengths to support the team.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Ghostbusters<\/em> is expected to arrive on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC via Steam on July 12th.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile game, <em>Ghostbusters: Slime City<\/em>, lets players be a Ghostbuster and save New York City from a new wave of threats. Team up with other players in asynchronous co-op, and collect powerful ghosts to rise to the top of the leaderboards. Players can also craft their own proton packs from any number of combinations of components, as well as upgrade their own headquarters and complete jobs around the city for new weapons and rewards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ghostbusters: Slime City<\/em> is expected to launch in July on select iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices via the App Store, select Android devices via Google Play and select Kindle devices through the Amazon Appstore.<\/p>\n<p><center> <\/p>\n<div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/jQUko9niqkGxW6XoVVWQ4w\/142954175490\" data-did=\"53498727d8404aafcb73a078a0dc428f85b27a90\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkainartsgamers.tumblr.com\/post\/142954175490\/more-at-httpgamersdarkainartscom\">http:\/\/darkainartsgamers.tumblr.com\/post\/142954175490\/more-at-httpgamersdarkainartscom<\/a><\/div>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/secure.assets.tumblr.com\/post.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/jQUko9niqkGxW6XoVVWQ4w\/142954142850\" data-did=\"7737cad77611df901f3c7313cddf511cc7e3bbdc\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkainartsgamers.tumblr.com\/post\/142954142850\/t-httpgamersdarkainartscom\">http:\/\/darkainartsgamers.tumblr.com\/post\/142954142850\/t-httpgamersdarkainartscom<\/a><\/div>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/secure.assets.tumblr.com\/post.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision and Sony Pictures has announced a pair of new Ghostbusters video games set in and inspired by the comedic action world of the upcoming Ghostbusters film, which hits theaters on July 15th. Taking place after the events of the new movie, both Ghostbusters games introduce new casts of rookies keeping watch over the station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[101,6,419,586],"tags":[193,1376,1383,1402,96,1405],"class_list":["post-9856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-pc","category-playstation-4","category-xbox-one","tag-activision","tag-ghostbusters","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-steam","tag-xbox-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ghostbusters.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-2yY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7890,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2015\/08\/lego-dimensions-main-game-contains-14-distinct-levels\/","url_meta":{"origin":9856,"position":0},"title":"Lego Dimensions Main Game Contains 14 Distinct Levels","date":"August 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveller's Tales has their work cut out for them with Lego's first foray into the figure collecting genre. 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