Monolith released their 2005 shooter F.E.A.R. with their original publisher Vivendi Games to terrific reviews and solid sales. However, when Monolith decided to move ahead with the sequel to the game under their new owners at Warner Bros. Interactive they could not come to terms with Vivendi Games over the F.E.A.R. game title. Vivendi make two expansion packs to F.E.A.R without Monolith's involvement while the developer used a contest to pick a new title for the sequel, Project Origin.

Now that Vivendi Games has been merged into the new Activision Blizzard company, the two organization have now come to terms with Warner Bros. Interactive buying back the F.E.A.R. title from Activision Blizzard. Because of this the game has now gotten a name change to F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. Financial terms were not disclosed. F.E.A.R. 2 is now scheduled for release on Feb. 10, 2009 according to an article on IGN.