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.
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.
Atari has finally concreted the Beautiful Katamari date as 29th February in Europe.
MS asks Gold members to "hold tight" as Silver members hit the download button.
The Xbox 360 demo for Beautiful Katamari was released in North America but wasn't available to those of us living in the UK or other parts of Europe. The demo has now been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace for these regions as well as Australia and New Zeland.
Atari has announced that Beautiful Katamari, the latest instalment in the acclaimed series, is to be released across Europe for Xbox 360 in February.
The review scores from EGM #222 (December 2007) are revealed:
Gaming Today reports a ripoff and advises you not to buy Beautiful Katamari and encourage this kind of business practice:
Beautiful Katamari for Xbox 360 is now available on store shelves all over North America, Namco Bandai announced today. Katamari on the 360 boasts bigger levels, an online mode and carries a $39.99 price tag, which is a little lower than your usual next current-gen game.
The two titles in Namco Bandai's double dose of Xbox 360 holiday gaming goodness--Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation and Beautiful Katamari--are complete and have entered the manufacturing process, a milestone frequently known as "going gold."
There's been some confusion about whether the Xbox 360 title Beautiful Katamari is also headed for PS3 or Wii, especially after the game showed up on the Namco Bandai website as being so last week.
Beautiful Katamari becomes the first game to have a full list of 1250 points revealed right from the beginning, though three of them state "download stages" which points to mandatory downloadable content before gamers will be able to unlock every achievement. No word if this content will be free or not, nor when it will be available.
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.
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.
Thevideogamingreport reports that a "Beautiful Katamari" Demo has hit the Xbox Live Marketplace and is ready for download.