WiiWare and Tumiki Fighters

A few months ago there was a bunch of noise about one of Kenta Cho’s games Coming to the Wii omg!. All caused by a GameFly listing for a game of the same name, with Majesco as the publisher. This had to mean one of two things: Kenta Cho’s Tumiki Fighters was going to be one of the first games to appear on Nintendo’s XNA mii-too or that it was confusion.

Today: Nintendo confirms plans for WiiWare Downloadable Content, and Majesco Announces Wii New Wii Exclusive, Blast Works, which seems to be a Tumiki Fighters sequel…but it’s developed by Budcat…which is in Iowa. I don’t understand how Kenta Cho has much to do with this.

Is he even being paid?

UPDATE: GameSetWatch explains that Kenta Cho’s games are released under a BSD license, and that Kenta Cho has given permission allowing Majesco to do pretty much whatever they want. Here’s hoping they do Tumiki Fighters justice.

5808 comments June 28th, 2007