GamesRadar - Beautiful Katamari

411mania's Release List for the Week of July 20, 2009 (News)

Jul 24, 2009

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

Beautiful Katamari gets official release date (News)

Feb 5, 2008

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.

Want more 'creative' games? Bring back the NES (Feature)

Nov 5, 2007

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 ...

Katamari Creator Designing UK Playground (News)

Oct 29, 2007

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.

Ace Combat 6 heading to PS3 with Beautiful Katamari, Eternal Sonata? (News)

Sep 11, 2007

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.

PS3 and Wii to get Beautiful Katamari (News)

Sep 11, 2007

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. ...

Bandai Namco Site Lists Beautiful Katamari For PS3 And Wii (News)

Sep 11, 2007

Bandai Namco has now listed Beautiful Katamari for the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii on their official site. Beautiful Katamari was first listed as an Xbox 360 exclusive now it seems they have a Playstation 3 and a Nintendo Wii version of the game in development.

First online with Katamari, Ace Combat (Preview)

Aug 23, 2007

Aug 23, 2007 Plenty's already been said about Ace Combat 6 and Beautiful Katamari, but until this week no one had seen a drop of full-on multiplayer action. Both games promised the feature, and had been explained through text, but now we've finally spent some quality time with two of Namco's biggest hitters. Oh, and we dabbled with Tekken 5's new online mode on the PlayStation Network, but more on that later. Being the insatiable Ace fans that we are, Fires of Liberation was our first stop. ...

Rumor: Beautiful Katamari skips PS3, Goes Wii (News)

Jun 30, 2007

IGN.com writes:
"Namco Bandai revealed earlier this year that it was developing the next-generation Katamari Damacy sequel, Beautiful Katamari, for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Up until recently, the developer continued to work on both versions of the project. However, sources close to Namco Bandai tell IGN that the studio ran into some trouble with the port of the game to PlayStation 3 and these issues, coupled with the stalled sales of the system, have led to the project's quiet cancellation. Looking to better-than-expected sales of Wii, the company has, say insiders, re-shifted resources to ready a Wii build of Beautiful Katamari instead."

Namco Bandai Gamers' Day 2007 event recap (News)

Jun 16, 2007

Bob Workman of GameDaily XL writes: "Namco Bandai Games wanted to push for a big gaming year, and, boy, did it get it. The company held its annual Gamers' Day event this week at the Supperclub in beautiful San Francisco, and I was able to attend, along with my crazy AOL GameDaily cohort Libe Goad. Needless to say, the event was a blast, and brushed aside a few doubts on announced projects -- they rock just like the company said they would. "

Namco announces 3 new PS3 games (News)

Jun 15, 2007

Bandai Namco Games revises product list

15.06.07 - Bandai Namco Games updated its Japanese product list for the PS3. Therefore are seven plays in work:

- Tekken 6 (flogging play)
- Beautiful Katamari Damacy (Action)
- Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection on-line one (flogging play)
- Time Crisis 4 (pistol Shooter)
- New game of roles
- New Shooting play
- New sport play

PS3 loses Katamari to Microsoft? (News)

Jun 15, 2007

According to Newsweek's Level Up column, Microsoft could be close to securing the next Katamari Damacy game, Beautiful Katamari as an Xbox 360 exclusive. Namco Bandai announced the next-gen installment for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 earlier this year, but according to Level Up an exclusivity deal between Microsoft and Namco Bandai is "very close" to fruition. It'd make sense in theory, considering the developer's recent love for Microsoft's box, which includes the gorgeous RPG Eternal ...

Beautiful Katamari Damacy - Gameplay 06-15-07 (Video)

Jun 15, 2007

Roll up people, animals and other... things in the new installment of the Katamari Damacy series. Hopefully the impossibly cool soundtrack will return.

Namco quiet on Katamari rumours (News)

Jun 15, 2007

Namco Bandai has remained quiet on rumours that Beautiful Katamari will be released exclusively on Xbox 360.

The company told Eurogamer this morning that until it announced its plans and a publisher for Europe it couldn't possibly comment on speculation.

Even Microsoft remained tight-lipped, offering no comment on what would surely be a high-profile exclusive-snatch. Then again, it's E3 next month.

Beautiful Katamari - hands-on (Preview)

May 25, 2007

Three years ago the world was treated to a deviously simple idea that erupted into a worldwide gaming phenomenon - roll a sticky ball over stuff until it grows so large that it usurps everything from ants to clouds to islands. Since that fateful introduction, the Katamari series has seen a new game each year and commanded a strong, faithful audience despite each release handling just like its predecessor. So what's all the excitement about then? How can people consistently go crazy about a ...

Beautiful Katamari (Screenshots)

May 25, 2007

More Katamari screens roll in (News)

Apr 27, 2007

Following up once more on last week's announcement we've got another batch of Beautiful Katamari screenshots, thanks to Japanese site Game Watch. The screens give us our first look at Beautiful Katamari's new cousins in action, as well as the boosted levels of junk you can fling around on screen. Apparantly it'll be out on Xbox 360 and PS3 before the end of the year and the official Japanese website is up for you to poke around. To indulge your inner accumulator, click the above Images tab to ...

Beautiful Katamari details roll in (News)

Apr 26, 2007

Xboxic has cooperated with OXM again to give the online community an early preview of upcoming material. The idea of the game hasn't changed too much from previous installments in the series: it revolves around a Prince and his Katamari, a rolling clump of objects. Starting out small, the idea is to roll over lots of different objects in the environment to pick them up and grow the ever more colorful ball. Each stage has its own bizarro objective, such as achieving a specific size for the katamari, or collecting a set amount of specific objects onto the ball.

First Beautiful Katamari shots rolled out (News)

Apr 20, 2007

As we reported yesterday, Namco-Bandai's bonkers Japanese roll-'em-up is making its way to Xbox 360 and PS3 and we've got the first screens of Beautiful Katamari Damacy, as it's currently known, right here. If you haven't been fortunate enough to experience the joys of Katamari, you play as that little green dude with the hammer-like head and you roll around a sticky ball - called a Katamari - to pick up small objects around a giant house. As more stuff accumulates on your Katamari, it gets ...

PS3/360 Katamari: First look (News)

Apr 19, 2007

Everyone's favorite fruitloop puzzler - that's Katamari Damacy, if you haven't had the pleasure - has been confirmed for an appearance on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in the guise of Beautiful Katamari Damacy. The brand new game, boosted with online features and bigger, more complex environments, was revealed in the latest issue of Japanese gaming bible Weekly Famitsu. We've uncovered this brilliantly eccentric bit of artwork for the game, and a single screenshot, though they unfortunately ...