Games in development at Sierra are coming under higher levels of scrutiny as the Vivendi-Activision merger draws near, reports Variety:

I've had numerous sources tell me that development teams on all of Vivendi's games now have to essentially pitch their projects to Activision executives. Until the merger is technically complete, work proceeds as usual, but once it's over, Activision will start making some decisions. And it seems very unlikely that everything at Sierra will keep going as it has been.

It's just as we predicted back when the merger was announced -- while things at Warcraft maker Blizzard would likely not be affected, the same could hardly be said for the team at Sierra, about to be swallowed whole into the Activision machine.

I'm sure Brutal Legend will be fine, at least.

Sierra games being pitched to new corporate masters at Activision [Variety]