The originalGhostbustersflick needled its way into my consciousness. I can’t step into an elevator without thinking about cosmonauts or roaches and I definitely can’t stand on top of a skyscraper without conjuring up the image of a giant bipedal marshmallow lumbering up its sides. With the release of Atari’sGhostbuserslooming just as large, my focus on everyday tasks (eggs without possession, please) have become even more burdened by silly thoughts. Today, Atari released more screenshots of the Wii and Nintendo DS versions of the game....

Just likeWorld of Goo, Beautiful Game Studios’ soccer simulationChampionship Manageris experiencing a 90 percent piracy rate. In a CVGinterview(viaEdge), BGS’ general manager Roy Meredith acknowledged the percentage was accurate, despite its massive nature. The good news (even if you’re not a fan ofChamp Man) is that BGS isn’t whining about the problem. Instead, they are actively thinking of solutions. Meredith admitted that EA’s ultra-constrictive DRM isn’t what the company needs to employ....

What is GT Racing academy? It’s where compete in a series of online time trials in pre-selected Nissan vehicles inGran Turismo 5.All participants will earn free DLCt just for playing, as well as have an opportunity to win prizes for winning regional time trials. It gets better: The top 32 virtual racers in the country will be invited to compete in the live national finals event in March 2011 to become one of 16 GT Academy finalists....

As part ofGuild Wars 2‘s showing at PAX, we got to see a lot of new information about the game’s Competitive PvP mode, asI detailed in my preview. During the presentation, Lead Content Designer Colin Johanson told us that ArenaNet was taking PvP very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that one of the goals is to getGuild Wars 2‘s PvP system established in the eSports world. When I first sawGuild Wars 2a couple years ago, I never imagined that I’d be watching it as part of an MLG event....

According to a tweet byFret Nicedeveloper Pieces Interactive, the guitar-controlled platformer Fret Nice hits PlayStation Network in North America this week. Europe has received a vague “coming soon,” so hold tight. Fret Niceuses guitar controllers to control an on-screen characters, taking control over something called a “Vibrant Chordblaster.” I’ve spent a bit of time with the game and found the use of the controller unique, but issues with hardware (i.e. aGuitar Hero‘s “star power” tilt — which makes your player jump — not working) made some of the experience frustrating....

Xbox 360 gamer Stallion83 is on a journey to hit 1 million Gamerscore points before anyone else. He’s previously appeared in theGuinness Book of World Records, which should surprise no one at this point, and now he’s back in the news. He recently hit — and has since passed — the halfway mark, thanks toWallace & Gromit. Considering the types of games you would have to subject yourself to in order to wrack up such a high amount of points, I’d say that’s pretty lucky....

Ah, I bet you thought I was going to use “Make it work!” in the headline to describe therecent newsthat Atari is bringing aProject Runwaygame to the Wii. The popular phrase is the most well-known thing to come out of the hitBravoLifetime reality show for people that have never seen it. But I have not only seenProject Runway, I watch it every week on a regular basis and know all the ins and “auf”s of the show....

Two weeks! That’s how long data was tracked to come up with the above infographic forRed Dead Redemption. Unless you happen to be a mutant, you may’t make out most of the figures shown — please click the attached, higher-res version and prepare to be amazed. The data was gathered using GameSpy tech of all things, and it’s the same stuff that powers the more-up-to-date statistics over on theRockstar Games Social Club....

I love the Wii’s endless selection of ridiculous and useless peripherals. If you bought them all, your living room would look like a garage sale. However, I have to admit that I love the really ludicrous ones and find myself kind of attracted to them. Imagine, then, my reaction to Hudson’s latest solution for not disturbing your neighbors with the swan sounds of your karaoke performance — theJOYSOUND Wiimicrophone. The mic comes packaged with the gameJOYSOUND Wiiand is technically named “Loud Karaoke OK!...

id Software’sRage Mutant Bash TVfor iOS is pretty good. Not great, not bad, and at the very least a great example of what Apple’s hardware can do in the right hands. If you want it for free, fire up those Facebook accounts for something more than playingFarmvilleand stalking ex-boyfriends. id Software says it will give away the iOS version ofRage HDfree for a week if thefirst-person shooter’s Facebook pagegets 100,000 likes....

Wii Weather: Sure it looks pretty, but what else does it do? Well, apparently not much else. Without an up-to-the minute correct forecast, what’s the point of having it on the Wii in the first place? That is precisely what Matt C. of IGN was wondering when he wrote this recently inhis blog: If you want to know what the weather was like eight hours ago in your city, Nintendo’s Wii Forecast Channel is amazing....

We’ve all got short term memories here on the Internet so it’s understandable if you forgot about that littlelawsuit thingthat is going on between Infinity Ward’s ex-heads and Activision. It got kind of ridiculous with abunch of name callingand the like, but now anupdate of a second suitfiled by other ex-Infinity Ward employees against Activision has raised the lawsuit-name-calling bar by stating that Activision instituted a “police state” mentality in order to make Infinity Ward develop the nextCall of Dutygame....

Ever since Jack Thompson lost his job, I resolved to stop covering the man’s antics until he did somethingsupremelystupid. That said, I could not resist following up on the suspicions that had been aroused yesterday when I was flicking through the TV channels and discovered America’s premier God-friendly anthropomorphic vegetable kids’ show,Veggie Tales. Upon the discovery of regular character Mr. Nezzer — a sentient Christian zucchini — the penny had suddenly dropped....