Interplay has revealed that it is partnering with franchise creator Doug TenNapel to work on a new Earthwork Jim game, TV series and film.
Other than the tentative title of Earthworm Jim 4, no other details have been confirmed. TenNapel will serve as a creative consultant on all of the projects.
Earlier in the month, Earthworm Jim was one of a number of IPs owned by Interplay that were flagged up as getting the revival ...
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Earthworm Jim for PSP appears to have been canned ... for now. Alissa Bell from Atari, who commented: "I believe EWJ is off the roster. May be revisited in the future, but the title is, as I hear it, on hold." Hopefully, this isn't the end of Earthworm Jim on PSP.
On Wednesday morning, Paradox Interactive and Nitro Games announced a "Designer's Cut" update for the PC naval strategy title East India Company. Based on ideas from the game's developers, as well as feedback from the loyal East India Company community, the development team has gone to great lengths to ensure that players of the game experience everything they could possibly desire as they assemble the strongest naval empire to sail the seas.
Paradox Interactive and Nitro Games have just released a brand spanking new contest to reward people who have picked up the Pirate Bay, the DLC for their latest PC game, East India Company. Based on the naval strategy title's in-game reward system (which offers points to sea dwellers as they progress in the game and climb up its ladder system), the two week event will call on players to challenge themselves to gain as many points as possible in the Pirate Bay campaign.
This third patch for East India Company rewards the loyal East India Company community everywhere by featuring all of the winners of the "Rule the Waves" contest as playable characters in the game.
TVGB: "So maybe Matt Hazard's first outing wasn't as good as we hoped but we're all for second chances here. D3 isn't ready to let its satirical action hero go and is probably creating a second game in the Matt Hazard universe. Last week D3 filed for the trademark of Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond. We're pretty sure it is a game because it's filed under the software and electronic games category. The jury is still out on whether this game will be a full scale retail title or purely downloadable."
LusoGamer has an exclusive video of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard.
The game casts the player as Matt Hazard, a retired videogame action hero who's career was torn apart by shoddy franchise cash-ins. Given one last chance of stardom by the owner of videogame publishing giant Marathon Software, Wallace "Wally" Wellesley, he jumps in head first – only to find that not everything is as it seems.
Joystiq writes: ""D3Publisher is working on a retro-style side-scrolling XBLA and PSN action game intended to fill in the backstory of Matt Hazard, the lead character of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It's planned for release sometime this summer. (Eat Lead launches against Halo Wars on March 3.)