If you went to Penny Arcade Expo a little over a week ago you got some badge lanyards promoting the upcoming Ghostbusters video game, even though that now former Vivendi Games title is in limbo thanks to the Activision Blizzard merger. So what happened. According to Variety's gaming blog it was just a matter of bad timing.

Vivendi Games bought the rights to the PAX badge lanyards way back in January and actually delivered them to PAX in June, two months before PAX 2008 began. Just a few weeks before the show the Activision Blizzard merger became official and the new company decided it didn't want to publish the Ghostbusters game after all, leaving PAX with advertising a game that is currently "between publishers". As PAX head man Robert Khoo stated, ""We didn't have much of a choice as finding an alternate lanyard provider, so we just ran with it." The game is still expected to be released sometime in 2009 but a new publisher has yet to be announced.