Beautiful Katamari

Keita Takahashi, lead designer for Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy has decided to part ways with Namco Bandai. His departure was confirmed earlier today by Play.tm. In recent interviews, the famous game designer seemed to express a growing disinterest with the game’s industry, calling E3 2010 ‘dull,’ and saying that he sees ‘no future’ in games..

E3 was dull says Takahashi-san, wants to try something else

GameCity has today announced the first public, competitive fusion of videogames and modelling clay ever to grace a GameCityNights event - and possibly the rest of the world. The competition takes place during GameCityNights: Episode 5, on June 25th 2010, at Antenna in Nottingham, 7pm BST.

 

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

411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Little King's Story, Katamari Damacy Tribute, Shatter, and Wii Sports Resort.

Atari has finally concreted the Beautiful Katamari date as 29th February in Europe. It follows a bit of indecision by the publisher, which said February then changed its mind to March. However, we were treated to a demo for it at the end of January, so you can hop on Live now and roll things up as if you were in control of a giant magical snowball.

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

Cast your mind back two years and you may remember Keita Takahashi, Katamari Damacy creator, telling the BBC he was set to give up videogames development to create a children's playground. Well, although Takahashi thankfully hasn't turned his back on gaming just yet, he is going to design a park and it's going to be in Nottingham, UK.

According to an interview at the French website Jeux Video, (see the first alternative source below,) the producer of Ace Combat 6 has revealed the possibility of a PS3 version of the air simulation game. In addition, earlier the official site for Beautiful Katamari listed PlayStation 3 and Wii versions as TBD (To Be Determined,) The website has since then been updated, and the PS3 and Wii listing removed after being spotted and reported. In a similar fashion, Eternal Sonata (aka Trusty Bell in Japan) is also listed as TBD for PlayStation 3 -- but interestingly, no Wii. The unintentional listing has also been discovered and removed. Altogether which seem to be an interesting coincidence. 1UP speculates that Beautiful Katamari and Eternal Sonata will be announced at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2007, (i.e., the second alternative source below.) Note: Snapshots of the evidences were taken by Kotaku before the websites changes and are attached below.

Sept 11, 2007 The crazy rolling world of Beautiful Katamari is heading to PS3 and Wii, it appears. Namco Bandai's website now lists both platforms as being on the Beautiful Katamari roll call, although neither version has a release date - they're both down as "TBD." And in related news, the site's also listing Xbox 360 RPG Eternal Sonata as destined for PS3 now too. Again, a release date for the PS3 version is down as "TBD." Source: Kotaku Courtesy of CVG.