Katamari Damacy

Above: With the Katamari Hack “bookmarklet,” you can scrub down any website by rolling around your ball to pick up bits of text and images

Are you ready to have a ball? Great! Now, head to the official website for Katamari Hack and bookmark the page. Now head to any website and click on the bookmark you just created. The Katamari Hack “bookmarklet” will transform the website into a game of Katamari Damacy. Your personal, magnetic sphere of death will now pick up bits of text and images as you roll it around the screen…

 

See some amazing photographs of this bronze sculpture of the Prince holding up a heavy Katamari ball like Atlas…

5 Nov, 2007 Ask any seasoned stick-twiddler to name a genuinely original game from the last five years and chances are that the first name that pops into their head is Namco's brilliant Katamari Damacy. Based on the fairly out-there premise of rebuilding the cosmos by rolling around a magical sticky ball, Katamari wooed gamers not just for its innovative core gameplay mechanic, but also its irresistible characters and bonkers style. We fell in love the moment we first saw the intro, which, if

A trio of trademark applications have appeared in Japan rekindling hope that the Katamari series may make a return. For last month developer Namco Bandai registered three new names: Beautiful Katamari Damacy, Katamari Damacy Tres Bien and Katamari Damacy-kun. And while our hopes have been raised again, the names can't be taken as proof of the existence of new games because applications can also cover potential TV shows, movies, fluffy dolls, sweets and just about anything