
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…
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
See some amazing photographs of this bronze sculpture of the Prince holding up a heavy Katamari ball like Atlas…
Some people say you can have too much of a good thing, but we say they can bugger right off. A cake is good, right? But are two cakes bad? No, theyre just more cake, and we like cake so well take all we can get. Om nom nom.
In gaming terms, the only thing better than a great videogame is a great videogame that acts as the start of a great franchise. Final Fantasy, Burnout, Super Mario Bros… We love them not only because theyre great but also because of what they later gave us. The only
Sony's annual E3 press conference opened with what could have been the biggest reveal of the entire show if it hadn't been leaked last week: the new $499 price of the PS3, as well as the introduction of a new $599 model that comes with an 80GB hard drive and a copy of online-enabled dirt racer Motorstorm. This left biggy-wig Jack Tretton (who began the event speaking through his character in the PS3 virtual world Home) to launch right into the publisher's game-centric, four-part