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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games from Activision on the way

Call of Duty publisher signs worldwide, multiyear deal with Nickelodeon to develop and publish games inspired by new CG-animated series.

Nickelodeon and Activision today announced a new worldwide, multiyear deal that will see the Call of Duty company develop and publish at least three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games inspired by the animated series.

As part of the agreement, Activision has secured the global game rights to TMNT. The first game is due out this summer for unspecified platforms.

That Activision is picking up the TMNT franchise is not a total surprise, as the company was last year rumored to be a licensing partner for the franchise.

Activision is the third gaming publisher to try its hand at a Ninja Turtles game. Konami was the brand's first and longest-running publishing partner, with a string of games lasting from the Turtles' NES and arcade games of 1989 to 2005's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare. Ubisoft took over the franchise in 2007, starting with tie-ins for the computer-animated feature film TMNT, and it produced a handful of titles during the following two years.

Nickelodeon's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series debuted in September, drawing nearly 12 million viewers during its first weekend. The show explores the brotherhood of four teenage turtles (Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael) and their quest to understand the mystery of their existence.

The show airs Saturday mornings on Nickelodeon.

Eddie Makuch
By Eddie Makuch, News Editor

Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He works out of the company's Boston office in Somerville, Mass., and loves extra chunky peanut butter.

108 comments
PSYCHOV3N0M
PSYCHOV3N0M like.author.displayName 1 Like

3 kills - The Foot ninja spy radar

4 kills - RC Skateboard with C4

5 kills - Pizza-box bombs falling from the sky

6 kills - Ninja death stars

10 kills - Turtle Van with 2 mounted machine gun turrets

17 kills - The Foot soldier army

etc etc

timdogg42069
timdogg42069

This is going to be great, I loved all of the turtle games until they did the fighting ones, but the SNES and the arcade ones were fantastic

firstclassgamer
firstclassgamer

TMNT has so much potentia but a lot of deveopers dont take advantage of it I like the ones on NES,Snes, and gamecube though

Uruca
Uruca like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 4 Like

Activision, ruining your childhood since 1979

PlasmaBeam44
PlasmaBeam44 like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

Do you know how awesome a 4 player co-op TMNT game would be? Let's hope they don't dumb it down for the kids.

BlendThree
BlendThree

Does this mean we can put TMNT action figures on our USB portal and swap torsos for a unique game play experience? Imagine Donetello's legs on Raphael's body!

tgwolf
tgwolf

Well, Activision, does this also mean you are going to grow out of diapers and start incorporating RPG elements and replay value? 

-Fromage-
-Fromage- like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 4 Like

I'm hesitant but hoping its good. The new cartoon surprised me by how awesome it is.

spoonybard-hahs
spoonybard-hahs

Ehh.... I'm still on the fence about even liking the new cartoon. On the one hand, it has some decent writing when it's not trying to be an anime. On the other, it tries too hard to be an anime. Plus, I have no idea why every incarnation since the 90's feels the need  to replace Bebop and Rocksteady with two different characters.

d_brown44
d_brown44

@spoonybard-hahs I have to totally agree with you. I like the new show, but I would like something different and edgy, but that goes back to the origin for the ol' skool fans.But of course they are going to make money off it being based on the recent show.

buffdaddy500
buffdaddy500

definitely excited at this news. love everything turtle related. just hope they draw inspiration from what rocksteady did with batman and make this game epic.

Nibraybirk
Nibraybirk

Not going to be better than the Nes/Snes games.

supa_badman
supa_badman

At least the games aren't nearly as bad as the show








But thats not saying much

Bumblebee1138
Bumblebee1138

Not saying anything at all since the show is awesome.

WeskerTeam
WeskerTeam

I wish they could get the rights to make it based on the comics. That game would be EPIC! Think Arkham City but with the turtles.

WeskerTeam
WeskerTeam

I hate the new series. The 2003 animated series was 1000x better in every way.

However I love the turtles and would like to see new TMNT games.

Bumblebee1138
Bumblebee1138

Actually the new Cartoon is AWESOME. It has a great balance betwen humor of the original series and the dark tone of 2003 seires.

nephili232
nephili232

My kids love the new TMNT, it's actually a great cartoon. Too bad Activision got the license... even on the off chance the developer manages to make a decent game (Spiderman Shattered Dimensions/ Fall of Cybertron) Activision will milk and grind them into dust with the sequels.

hadlee73
hadlee73

These turtles just won't die. Damn, now I sound like one of the villains from the series :P

baxwam
baxwam like.author.displayName 1 Like

Of course this would happen Activison is the king of all license games but the question is are they always good and the answer is no. No the answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 

beuneus12
beuneus12

@baxwam are they ever any good?

Stonecutters908
Stonecutters908

@beuneus12 @baxwam Fall of Cybertron was decent. Nothing special but probably one of the better licensed games I've played besides Arkham of course. Chances are this will be sh1t though. Activision makes mostly poop.

greebe55
greebe55

i wish they kept the original turtle models

vengefulwilberg
vengefulwilberg like.author.displayName 1 Like

Based on the screen shoot this already looks like it is going to suck.  Just bring back the original SNES or Arcade version of TMNT: Turtles in Time and I will be happy.

KBFloYd
KBFloYd

great! hope it's good

and bring the tmnt arcade game back to xbla and psn and wiiU eshop...

also release the real arcade version of turtles in time

Mrod1212
Mrod1212

Just let the Turtles die already. They have been through enough, with reboots and redesigns.

cookieboy13
cookieboy13

What in the worlds is everybody complaining about?! Either buy the game...OR DON'T, but do not sit here and whine as if somebody stole your last McNuggets! Ger over youself and go for a jog

H0rizon
H0rizon

Fuck, games just really suck here lately or can't find a way to actually be appealing.

gargungulunk
gargungulunk like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

Haven't they grown up yet?

I wanna see that.  30 year old turtles, via Dark Knight style.

St0Ne4Ge
St0Ne4Ge

Wait, so they just picked up the rights to make the game and it'll be released this summer, something tells me the game won't be very good. Isn't that a really small amount of time to develop a game or am I missing something?

Toadamus
Toadamus

I would rather buy 3 large pizza's and 2 packs of beer.

gamebuyer22
gamebuyer22

The same company that published Men in Black, Generator Rex, Kung Fu Panda 2, Battleship, X men Destiny, awful Ps3 Call of Duty ports, Transformer movie games, Cabelas series, Fall of Cybertron crap ps3 port. Ya people expect this to be good,

Kravyn81
Kravyn81

Sweet. Now Activision needs to make a time machine to go back to 1988 when TMNT was actually still RELEVANT. Good luck!

Fo_Fai
Fo_Fai like.author.displayName 1 Like

@Kravyn81 BLASPHEMY, TMNT WILL NEVER DIE


but yeah the video games tend to suck though

Ibra8
Ibra8

make the game 18+

Fo_Fai
Fo_Fai like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 6 Like

A new TMNT game?  SWEET, let me just get out my wallet here and-


"from Activision" 


*puts wallet back in pocket and promptly walks away from article*

woomar
woomar

I still play the Manhattan Project from time to time , even the the mid 2000 games from Konami are way much better than the new ones (2007-present) .

I miss the "real" TMNT games and ... SHREDDER .

Randy21021
Randy21021

Why Activision thy might just bring out TMNT 1,2,3,4...on going if it succeeds

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