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Shiny Acquisition Leaves Earthworm Jim Wriggling?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-that's-a-character-i-haven't-seen-in-a-while dept.

simoniker writes "Shiny Entertainment head Michael Persson has been talking about the company's recent acquisition by Foundation 9, the studio's existing IPs (including Earthworm Jim), and the company's future without either David Perry or Atari at the helm. Persson talks about the latest incarnation of Earthworm Jim, which Shiny was developing for PSP after quite a few previous speedbumps (among them EWJ co-creator Perry leaving and Doug TenNapel also becoming disassociated from the project): 'We were working on that, and we're not working on it anymore. But it's really up to Atari to make an announcement about that, I probably can't even make that statement officially, but obviously we're not working on it.' Back to the drawing board yet again?"

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  1. Re:So? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Informative
    Earthworm Jim was just another one of those early-90's games put out in promotion of a toy line.
    The game came first. The success of the game then led to the cartoon, which then led to comics and toys (which IIRC were based on the cartoon much more than the game.)
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  2. Great game by Some_Llama · · Score: 3, Insightful

    EWJ was one of the few games of the time which didn't take itself too seriously which made for some fun gaming, shooting cows into outer space, using himself as a whip, classical music sound tracks.. awesome game..

    Although it was a little difficult in parts, the novelty of the gameworld made up for a lot of that.