Blast Works: Build, Fuse and Destroy

Build, trade and destroy, as Majesco Entertainment Company, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today shipped Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy for the Nintendo Wii. Developed by Budcat Creations, Blast Works is a side-scrolling 2D shooter based on Kenta Cho's popular online game Tumiki Fighters. Featuring multiple game content editors and the innovative Blast Works Depot website where gamers can post and trade custom content worldwide, Blast Works is now available in retail outlets nationwide.

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Prepare to flex your creative genius as Majesco Entertainment Company, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy has gone gold for Wii. The fully customizable side-scrolling shooter will ship to retail outlets nationwide on June 10th.

With Nintendo's Wii getting flooded with party games galore and very few games that take good advantage of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection abilities, it's nice to see someone taking charge. Blast Works: Build, Fuse & Destroy is based on a PC shareware shooter called Tumiki Fighters, but what Majesco and developer Budcat Creations are adding to the game could make it really stand out. Much like Tumiki Fighters, in Blast Works, the basic premise is controlling a ship in a side-scrolling environment, where you shoot at enemies. As you shoot enemies apart, the chunks and parts of fallen enemies will drop, and if you move your ship on top of the broken chunks they'll stick onto your ship-much like elements growing a Katamari ball. The art style is quite simplistic, with basic boxes and shapes making up the environments and ships. As your ship gets shot at, pieces will also fall off, so the more enemies you take out, the more shields and layers your ship essentially has.

October 05, 2007 There's a growing tendency of late for companies to buy up succesful PC homebrew or casual games and dump them onto every system they can. The results usually range from uninspired to disastrous, but sometimes they rock. flOw on PS3 is captivating, Line Rider looks great, and Blast Works could be fantastic. Based upon a PC homebrew game called Tumiki Fighters, it actually combines the gameplay of old fashioned, 2D shooters with the sticky world of ball-rolling sensation

Just-announced Blast Works for the Wii will let you create your very own side-scrolling shoot-'em-up thanks to what the game's publisher Majesco describes as "easy-to-use, multiple in-game editors." Players are able to build their own levels, ships and enemies, and adding further spice to the variety, you can "absorb" pieces and weapons of destroyed enemy ships to boost your own defenses during battle. "This exceptional customization combined with the unique "stickiness" of enemy debris and

Just-announced Blast Works for Wii will let you create your very own side-scrolling shoot-'em-up thanks to what the game's publisher Majesco describes as easy-to-use, multiple in-game editors. Players are able to build their own levels, ships and enemies, and adding further spice to the variety you can 'absorb' pieces and weapons of destroyed enemy ships to boost your own defences during battle.