Earlier this week we reported that the newly merged Activision Blizzard would not be taking most of the upcoming games from Vivendi's Sierra Entertainment label, including the upcoming Ghostbusters game title which was hyped as coming out this fall and shown in playable form at the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend. Now Variety reports that this move has pushed the game's release date from fall to sometime in 2009.

However this new date might work to the game's advantage. According to the article, the movie's 25th anniversary also happens to be in 2009 and Ghostbusters' owners Sony Pictures might want to wait until then to release the game to tie in to any marketing they might generate for that anniversary. So far there's no word on who might pick up the game for publishing which is being developed by Terminal Reality.