And speaking of this site's inexorable Katamari fixation, our enthusiasm started flailing wildly about the room like a rampant fire hose, spraying whatever less-than-subtle euphemism you'd care to mnemonically conjure, when we read that the Katamari Damacy series may not be dead after all.

Although Keita Takahashi is off to grander hippy-dippy gaming adventures, he recently told Gamasutra that he expects Namco will probably continue the Katamari games.

That's comforting, although perhaps inevitable. Have you ever known a publisher not to milk a successful franchise into a dusty slab of pitifully lowing beef?FLORIAN ECKHARDT

Katamari Series Not Necessarily Over [1UP]

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