Foundation 9 to merge Collective and Shiny
by Justin McElroy 
{ Oct 10th 2007 at 3:26PM }
Spearheaded by Dave Perry, Shiny was once a bastion of creativity in the industry, with titles like MDK, Earthworm Jim and Wild 9. The Collective is no slouch themselves, currently helming Silent Hill V, making them the first American company to develop a game in that series. While Shiny has lost some of its luster in recent years, and this new developer's going to be packing a lot of talent, it's hard for us not to be a little sad at the prospect of the house that Jim built finally being dismantled.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) @ Oct 10th 2007 3:51PM
Earthworm Jim Wii confirmed?
Joe @ Oct 10th 2007 7:46PM
This is the first thing you would think but really Atari owns the license so if you want to see a new EWJ game you best start sending Emails to Atari. Asking that they make a new EWJ game.
generic @ Oct 10th 2007 9:02PM
The only way you'd ever see another quality EWJ is if Doug TenNapel were back on board, and he's had such negative experiences in the past, so I doubt he'd touch it with a ten foot pole.
Mind you, most of his headaches were with Perry, so with that ego out of the picture, you never know.
navstar @ Oct 10th 2007 4:14PM
Much like Sega, Shiny has a looooong way to go if they want to win me over again. A treasure of 16 and 32-bit games, but nothing good after Dreamcast.
AstroZombie @ Oct 10th 2007 4:07PM
Actually, "Shillective" would be perfect considering some of Dave Perry's comments lately.
Lion @ Oct 10th 2007 4:20PM
Shiny is being assimilated into the Collective? This sounds oddly familiar ...
NATO_Duke @ Oct 10th 2007 4:24PM
Great - more opportunities to hear Perry's thoughts on something.
ZippyDSMlee @ Oct 11th 2007 9:17AM
joy nothing like merging, gutting, recreating to make a dev house a solid place to build games from...........it can't suck worse than a bought out dev tho....