Earthworm Jim put "on hold"

by Andrew Yoon { Jun 18th 2007 at 11:30AM }

Earthworm Jim for PSP was looking good: it had sharp graphics, and awesome 2D gameplay potential. Unfortunately, it appears that the game is canned ... for now. We contacted 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.

Atari's upcoming support for PSP includes Dungeons & Dragons Tactics and HOT PIXEL. However, it doesn't appear that PSP fans can expect too much more in the upcoming future. Talking about their E3 plans, Alissa told us that "I don't believe Atari will be focusing on PSP titles at E3."

Tags: atari, earthworm jim, EarthwormJim

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Random @ Jun 18th 2007 12:11PM

I really feel sorry for Atari, (heh kinda rhymes) their company has really gone to shit, they just kinda dropped off the face of the earth, hopefully somehow they will be able to bring the company back too what it use to be. and yes, the matrix games suck, but what about a pity buy people.

zoen151 @ Jun 18th 2007 12:32PM

Earthworm Jim was coming to PSP?

Colin.Torretta @ Jun 18th 2007 1:23PM

Nooooo! :(

-Colin.Torretta

Beej @ Jun 18th 2007 1:41PM

NOOOOOOOOOO !!!

This game looked awesome and pretty far down the production line, why would they stop it now?

I'm shattered about this, I was really looking forwards to playing EWJ on my beloved PSP, the handheld seemed like the ultimate platform for this game to me, and it's a real shame.

darkvegeta @ Jun 18th 2007 1:52PM

It would be hard to continue the work on the game, Andrew, when...you know, Shiny, the studio that made it is already sold by Atari.

pixelator @ Jun 18th 2007 8:13PM

I suspect we'll see the game picked up again, if indeed it's some sort of shakeup that caused the hold status.

However, it's irritating to hear some smug biznatch saying 'Atari will not be focusing on PSP at E3'.

That's OK, I remember the Atari 'focus' on the Lynx and its games back in the ealy 90's CES days. Different company these days, of course, but the legacy liveth oneth.

Perry L @ Jun 19th 2007 10:40AM

Can we get a contact to send letters to?

Maybe they should release a 1-2 level teaser to gauge interest. Hot brain is the ghey and tactics games sell zero copies in NA.

imjasonh @ Jun 19th 2007 12:42PM

It should be noted that the Atari you guys are talking about isn't even the same Atari. This is Infogrames we're talking about here...who bought the rights to use the Atari name, which was dead long before. Its really too bad this game has been put on hold. I guess Atari can't figure out which Dragonball Z game they want to release first.