There’s good news and and okay news about game releases making the rounds today. Let’s start with the good news.

EA has announced that Brütal Legend has a concrete release date. The Tim Schafer-helmed game was long in limbo after Activision dropped it as a publisher. The date is set for October 13th.

For a while, fans of Schafer’s old games like Psychonauts and Monkey Island were wondering if Brütal Legend would ever see the light of day, so this provides a little satisfying closure, even though EA’s commitment wasn’t really in doubt.

In other news, it seemed like the painterly Oboro Murasama, to be known as Muramasa: The Demon Blade stateside, might not have been coming stateside it all when XSEED said it was no longer part of its lineup.

I was all set to call out Atlus to pick it up for publication, but fortunately, Oboro Murasama is no longer part of XSEED’s lineup merely because it’s coming via Ignition Entertainment instead. The company says the street date for the game is September 2009.

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