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LFG-2000 AEG project is finished! - July 30th 2014

Source: JCF

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PC Gamer reposts Jazz 1 review from 1995 - July 21st 2014

Source: PC Gamer

Intentionally, just to be clear.

PC Gamer reposts classic reviews every Sunday, but you can’t tell me the choice of Jazz Jackrabbit CD for today’s wasn’t inspired by all the recent BlueStreak hubbub. It’s a positive review that notably makes next to no mention of gameplay. Jazz 1 was a technological showcase in 1994, easy as that can be to forget in this modern age with our endless waves of indie 2D platformers, and the PC Gamer review bought completely into the “just as good as home consoles” narrative, though it does take some time to praise things that are more artistic than technological, like Nick’s amazing character animation.

C. Bleszinski, Esq., does another Reddit AMA - July 11th 2014

Source: Reddit

EDIT: This is over now.

News never stops (and neither does the PR machine): Cliff Bleszinski, who needs no introduction here, is was doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit again, in response to his teaming up with Arjan Brussee and forming Boss Key.

As announced, Boss Key is currently working on arena shooter BlueStreak, so the AMA is mostly about that. But there’s also some Jazz questions in there, such as WHY AREN’T THE JAZZ GAMES RELEASED ON GOG YET? (answer: go bug Epic)

Lazy Game Reviews does Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - July 11th 2014

Source: YouTube (via Haze)

After reviewing Jazz Jackrabbit 1 back in 2011, YouTube game reviewers Lazy Game Reviews are now back with a feature on its sequel!

A cursory glance reveals that this will be a video mostly interesting to those who have not been following the game closely for years already (though they do mention JJ2+ and show its splash screen at the end!), but either way it’s an entertaining video review. Check it out below:

Boss Key to make arena shooter - July 8th 2014

Source: twitter

We mentioned the other day that Arjan and CliffyB were reuniting to form a new game studio. This was accompanied by speculation that they’d acquired the Jazz license from Epic Games, fueled by a quote from an anonymous source who turned out to be deeply confused, deliberately misleading, or just incredibly sarcastic. Either way, we apologize for relaying it to you. Anyway, the real story is in, and it’s not bad.

BlueStreak, the game’s current codename, will be “a Free2Play Sci-Fi PC arena shooter.” Personally I’d call JJ2 an arena shooter, though I’m sure someone will be along to vehemently disagree with me on that front. :) And if it’s free to play, that means we don’t need to buy it! Obviously F2Pness is a hot-button issue in the gaming world, but I think we can trust Cliffy and Arjan enough to have some more interesting take on the subject than “pay to win.”

That’s all we really know so far, except that Arjan and Cliffy will be working on it with Nexon. This doesn’t tell us much about the game’s style, since Nexon’s past output ranges from the 2D cartoony Maple Story to the 3D gray and brown Combat Arms. Still, this screenshot from August might be a hint…

(EDIT: And if you’re more interested in following Epic Games, here’s a new gameplay trailer for Fortnite.)

Arjan and CliffyB reunite - July 4th 2014

Source: Control Magazine (Dutch)

…in CliffyB’s new development studio, Boss Key Productions, with a new project set to be revealed this Tuesday.

There’s only one way this can end, right?

UPDATE: Well, what do you know. From a source close to Arjan:

There will be a Jazz Jackrabbit game
The rights are a whole again.

UPDATE 2: https://twitter.com/arjanbrussee/status/485162780840845312 :(