RETURN OF THE WORM: INTERPLAY, GAMELOFT REVIVING EARTHWORM JIM FOR XBLA, PSN, WIIWARE
IP holders Interplay have just sent over news of a new partnership with mobile game giant Gameloft to revive Shiny Entertainment’s 16-bit cult classic Earthworm Jim as a cross-platform downloadable by the end of this year.
Details are still slim on what form the remake will take, but the companies say the game will debut exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade for one month, followed by ports to PlayStation Network, WiiWare, and mobile phones, the iPhone presumably included.
The deal is separate from Sega’s own ongoing campaign to let players vote which 16-bit Genesis classic they’d like to see hit Xbox Live Arcade (though the poll, which was meant to run through the 21st, appears to be down at the moment), but shouldn’t be an issue either way, because the answer there is quite obviously a network-playable version of Toejam and Earl, if you have even like a half a lick of sense.
[Illustration via Autumn Society artist Pedro ‘gogopedro‘ Delgado]
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