As you may have heard, Sega has been running a poll to let us, the gamer, decide which Genesis game is released next on the XBLA to ‘˜celebrate’ the 20th anniversary of the Genesis. Unfortunately the poll had to be reset due to apparent ‘˜unforeseen circumstances’. Personally, I found this poll a little pointless anyway; I don’t doubt that we will see all these games released further down the line anyway, so the order in which they come seems irrelevant.

Nevertheless the game leading the poll, Earthworm Jim, had to be removed due to ‘˜licensing issues’. The ‘˜licensing issues’ in question would be that Gameloft has announced that it will be bringing the Earthworm Jim game to several platforms, including the XBLA.

This is a little strange, as you would imagine Sega to do just a little bit of research into whether or not they had the right to make/remake the game. But Sega is a big company, I can understand how a little oversight like this could easily happen with such a minor detail as the publishing rights.

Whilst this may come as good news for all the Earthworm Jim fans out there, it should come as even better news for the Toejam & Earl fans, as their game is now in the lead. Although Sega has effectively ‘˜lost’ Earthworm Jim, they did not want to seem unhappy, stating that ‘œWe are excited that our fans will soon be able to play this game.’ I can’t help but feel they would be more exited if they were the publishers of the game.