Beautiful Katamari

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…

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…

Xbox Live has listed Resident Evil 5 and Beautiful Katamari on its Games on Demand service, with both available now for purchase and download.

Major Nelson's Blog writes: The following Xbox 360 games are now ready for direct download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace: Content: Crackdown Price: Check pricing for your region Availability: Not available in Germany, Japan and Korea Content: Beautiful Katamari Price: 2000 MS Points Availability: Japan

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

Eurogamer: At his talk at last week's Game Developers Conference, Namco Bandai's Keita Takahashi revealed that he intended his first game, cult hit Katamari Damacy, to be a comment on consumer culture. In Katamari, players can roll up almost every object they see into a giant, all-consuming snowball of stuff. Takahashi told the audience that he saw it as a game about the consumption society. But that presented him with a problem - playing it made him sad. I wanted to make more objects. If there are few objects, I feel lonely. If there are more objects, they will make things more colourful. But when they're rolled up, they're gone. I felt empty, he said.

For a limited time only (well, until the end of October) the Xbox Live Marketplace is running an 'Extended Play Download Days' promotion which is offering some pretty good savings on some of the more popular DLC. Games include: Mass Effect Lost Odyssey Forza Motorsport 2 Oblivion Guitar Hero 3 Beautiful Katamari