The upcoming Ghostbusters game has been a long time coming and has seen its fair share of drama. After starting out life as a game for Sierra, it was set out to pasture during the Activision and Sierra merger, along with other notable titles such as Brutal Legend and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

Since then, Atari swooped in to save the game and it is now on pace for release sometime this year. The real kicker is, that we have no idea when it is supposed to hit store shelves. Well, at least that was the case until yesterday afternoon.

It seems that Sony may have inadvertently let the game's launch date slip in a press release for the upcoming Blu-Ray redux of the classic films:

"America's favorite paranormal psychologists are back to save the world, this time with unsurpassed picture and audio quality and advanced new bonus features in the Ghostbusters Blu-ray Disc, releasing worldwide the week of June 16, 2009. The simultaneous launch of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, the highly anticipated videogame from Atari, celebrates the film's 25th anniversary, with an all-new adventure from by the film's original writers." -- Sony Press Release via Kotaku

Boy, that sounds awful official to me, but I am going to slap a rumor tag on it until we can get official confirmation from Sony.

I hope that this is the real release date, because that would mean it would make it out just in time for my birthday on the 21st of June (nudge, nudge... wink, wink.) Nothing says, "Happy Birthday" like getting slimed! Is anybody else excited to get their hand on this bad boy?