Rumor: Codemasters to publish next Leisure Suit Larry game?

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Rumor: Codemasters to publish next Leisure Suit Larry game?

Posted Jan 31st 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action, Adventure

Has yet another of Activision Blizzard's cast off games found a publisher at last? Maybe. Computer and Video Games reports that a German game ratings board site had posted up an indication that Codemasters had taking on the publishing duties of Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust.

The next game in the very adult adventure game series was announced about a year ago by Vivendi Games with UK-based Team 17 named as the developed. However that's the last we heard on the game's development. When Vivendi Games merged with Activision to form Activision Blizzard last summer, the title was not one they decided to pick up. Since then many of their cast-offs have found other publishers (Brutal Legend for EA, Ghostbusters for Atari, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault for Ubisoft and others).

Tags: activision, activision-blizzard, codemasters, leisure-suit-larry-box-office-bust, team-17

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Is this even worth posting? LOLPosted at 9:00PM on Jan 31st 2009 by Game_playa

Ugh, why hasn't this title died yet? Now that Sierra is no more and Activision wouldn't know a good game if it bit them in the ass, someone should give the rights back to Al Lowe so a proper entry in the series can be made. Then we can forget about the travesty that was MCL and the mistake that this game looks to be.

...bysmittyPosted at 9:19PM on Jan 31st 2009 by bysmitty

Dying franchise should die.Posted at 8:18AM on Feb 1st 2009 by Sir Buzz Killington( The Artist formerly known as Jakka)

I agree. Al Lowe should be given the rights back or brought back in to make a least one more big one and wrap the whole thing up.Posted at 10:26PM on Feb 1st 2009 by Andrew's Screen