EA has announced that it’s secured the publishing rights to Tim Schafer’s upcoming ‘rock-adventure’ Brütal Legend.

The future of the third person action/adventure game starring Jack Black was unknown following the Activision Blizzard merger earlier in the year and the resultant shake up of Sierra’s portfolio.

“This is awesome news!” stated an enthusiastic Tim Schafer, President of Double Fine Productions. “The quality and creativity of the games EA Partners has been involved with make it a perfect home for our baby, Brütal Legend. Some people were starting to wonder if the saga of Eddie Riggs would ever see the light of day, but now I think it’s clear that this game, like Metal itself, cannot be killed!”

Schafer has previously worked on critically-acclaimed titles such as The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango and Psychonauts.

Atari recently announced that they had snapped up the rights to Ghostbusters, Sierra’s other big game hung out to dry in the wake of the Acti-Blizzard merge.

Brütal Legend will be available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in autumn 2009.

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