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Although he can’t put a timeframe on it, former Shiny boss Dave Perry has said he and the team will make a new Earthworm Jim game one day.

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David Perry has said he regrets selling Shiny Entertainment to Atari in 2002.

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Industry veteran David Perry will be handed the Development Legend award during the Develop Industry Excellence Awards on July 11. He is to receive the award for the contributions he’s made to the games industry over the last three decades. The Gaikai boss has helped create over 100 titles across 29 platforms, and formed Shiny Entertainment which brought the world Earthworm Jim. “I’m incredibly flattered by this award,” said Perry in response to Develop. “I’m from Great Britain and have incredible respect for the people that have been recognized in previous years. My mother is going to be blown away; she thought she was buying me that first Sinclair ZX81 to do homework on.” [image]

Happy Monday, everyone.

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Gameloft has revealed to Nintendo Power that it’s iPhone remake of Earthworm Jim is will be released on DSiWare.

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Yesterday’s announcement that Gameloft had picked up the rights to give your Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii a case of the worms wasn’t exactly clear on what form said creepy-but-not-crawly would take. Would it be a new game, or would it be a port of a classic earthworm escapade? G4 asked Gameloft, and promptly received an answer.

“A Gameloft representative has confirmed to me it’s a remake of the 1994 original game released on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, not a new game,” reads G4′s post.

So that’s that.

Gameloft and Interplay are in cahoots to put Earthworm Jim back on the map, it would seem. The two companies have partnered to develop and publish a new title in the series that will eventually grace the likes of PSN and WiiWare.

First, though, Jim’s making a month-long pit stop on Xbox Live Arcade, as a timed exclusive. The early bird gets the Earthworm Jim? Something like that, we guess.

The game’s out sometime during the last quarter of 2009. Pertinent press is after the break.

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Sega has announced that for the 20th anniversary of the Sega Genesis, fans can vote for the next Genesis title to land on Xbox Live.

Between August 14 and 21, fans can go here and vote for the following games:

• Earthworm Jim
• Golden Axe II
• Revenge of Shinobi
• Shining Force
• Streets of Rage
• Toejam & Earl
• Wonder Boy

Currently, Jim is in the lead with 46 percent of the vote, followed by Toejam & Earl.

Thanks, Roybott.

Good Old Games has a sale going on, giving 25 percent off loads of action titles.

To get in on the promotion, according to D’toid, add the following games to your cart and apply promo code “ACTION” at checkout:

• Die by the Sword + Expansion
• Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
• Earthworm Jim 3D
• MDK
• MDK 2
• Messiah
• Shattered Steel

Promo ends on Monday, March 23 at 11.59pm EST.

According to this Destructoid story, Interplay’s planning to release Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Boogerman and Clayfighter on Virtual Console this year.

We have to admit, we’re not amazingly excited, but that’s just us.

Interplay has announced earnings of $6 million for fiscal 2007 and plans to gain funding for a Fallout MMO.

Outlining a roadmap for the company’s future, a statement said that “management is working to secure funding for the development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) based on the popular Fallout franchise. Interplay sold Fallout in 2007 while obtaining a license back, under certain conditions, to create and develop a Fallout MMOG.”

In addition, and almost unbelievably, the company has also announced intentions to create sequels to Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK.

The return of Interplay as a resurgent concern in games publishing was signalled by the semi-launch of Interplay.com at the beginning of March.

Press release after the link.

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