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It's been a rocky ride for Namco's Katamari games ever since Keita Takahashi left the Japanese publisher. The odd, left-field whimsy that the game designer imbued 2004's Katamari Damacy with dwindled with each sequel. Still, Stephen Totilo's last look at Touch My Katamari made me wonder if Namco might be finding their way back to some kind of charm or interesting mechanics with the franchise. More »
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Noby Noby Boy's Latest Achievement Comes From Reaching Uranus More »
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Once upon a time, Namco's Katamari Damacy was the freshest of games. You controlled a little green guy who rolled up stuff to make a bigger and bigger ball that could roll up bigger and bigger stuff. More »
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Katamari rolls on to the iPhone. Again. This time, the result is better. While it's still not as good as the original console games, this is finally an iOS Katamari title that does the the King of Cosmos proud. More »
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Cult classic PlayStation 2 game Okami got a Wii port. It never got a NES version, because that system was well before the game's time. But what if it did? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5846368&view=rss&microfeed=true On Famitsu.com, former Katamari Damacy designer and current Glitch developer Keita Takahashi is blogging in English and Japanese about his life and Canada as well as his opinions about things like the Vita Katamari game. More in the link. [Famitsu] More »
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The Katamari Damacy series just keeps on keepin' on with one more entry, this one for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Katamari Amore is hitting iOS next week and arriving with a guest appearance from fellow Namco mascot Pac-Man. More »
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Katamari Damacy is just a working title but, frankly, it's as good as any for the version of the game soon to arrive on PlayStation Vita. Namco Bandai announced today that the venerable roll-em-up will get a Vita release on an unspecified date, and will take advantage of the new handheld's touch-pad controls. More »
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Details from the latest issue of Famitsu magazine are leaking all over the place, revealing a slew of PlayStation Vita games both new and old, including versions of Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Katamari Damacy, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and more. More »
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Earlier this month, the Otakuthon Anime Convention stormed through lovely Montreal, Canada. And when there's a convention, you can bet there are people in funny costumes. More »
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Keita Takahashi, famed Japanese game designer and creator of surreal games like Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, has signed on to help the co-founder of Flickr create a new sort of massively multiplayer game. More »
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Computer gaming start-up Tiny Speck today announced that they have hired Katamari Damacy developer Keita Takahashi to work on their fittingly unusual massively-multiplayer game Glitch. More »
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Freddie Wong is back with another video game video, and it is fantastic. You can see the punchline coming, but that's not to say it isn't well executed. [h/t Renzor004 and Umbra] More »
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We got Kataminey Damacraft. Sure, the name isn't that great, but this mod for the quirky cult-hit Minecraft based on the quirky cult-hit Katamari Damacy looks like a winner. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5816423&view=rss&microfeed=true Namco Bandai, the people who brought you Katamari Damacy, We ♥ Katamari, Me & My Katamari, Beautiful Katamari and Katamari Forever, may be hard at work on another entry in the thing-rolling genre. Siliconera spied new trademarks for "Katamari amore" and "Katamari amore Rolling Whopper," potentially a new... 3DS game? NGP game? Or just an attempt to lock down "Rolling Whopper," a truly magical video game title? More »
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Are you browsing this page on Google Chrome right now? Well, you're going to want to. Some saint of a coder has developed an utterly delightful hack that rolls up all of a Web page's text and pictures, Katamari-style. More »
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Mike Mitchell created an excellent Katamari Damacy themed illustration "Prince Of Darkness" for Gallery 1988's "Multiplayer" show. More »
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There is one question that we all have. That question is this: what the hell inspired Muscle March? More »
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Courtesy of hand-crafting superstar Moxie, here's a Katamari Damacy playset for the real world, made of little else but felt and magnets. More »
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Katamari Damacy designer Keita Takahashi wasn't happy at Namco Bandai. When leaving the company, he called it "so-so". His reasons are a bit more melancholy than that. More »
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Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy who recently left Namco Bandai, has started a new company with his wife Asuka Sakai (who is a composer) called uvula. More »
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But you can't take the Katamari Damacy out of him. Keita Takahashi, who recently left Namco Bandai, checks out the Katamari Floating World exhibit on Wednesday. Thanks, SoylentCHUD! More »
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It seems that Keita Takahashi, the man known for Katamari Damacy, has left Namco Bandai. More »
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Namco's Katamari Damacy is an iconic title. People instantly recognize it. This makes Katamari perfect fodder for an art show. Yes, an art show. More »
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Growing up meant summers spent outside for me. Long days locked outside with no hope of returning home until the sun fell and my parents called us for dinner. More »
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It would look like this. Artist Kate Elizabeth, an New Orleans-based illustrator, created this stunning piece. More »
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We presume this is Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, in disguise. Who else could make an otherwise creepy situation so charming? More »
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"Prince Holds The Katamari On His Shoulders", 8" bronze scultpure by Everfalling. More »
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The Prince of all Cosmos gets busy reticulating splines. As seen on Coolvibe. More »
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Just Cause 2 has an amazing grappling hook technique, but it's got limits: you can only attach it to one thing (either two objects to each other or one to yourself). Lucky for us PC mods know no limits! More »
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As seen on Impress Game Watch's coverage of a recent Katamari Damacy Online event in Korea. More »
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Keita Takahashi is a creative guy. Pads around bare-foot, comes up with stuff like Katamari Damacy. We love him for it, but at the same time, get the impression his heart's just not in it anymore. More »
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Keita Takahashi, the guy behind Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, is a wacky guy — he makes wacky games! But he has plans for more wacky games he hasn't even started making yet. There's this FPS concept he's got... More »
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Several years back, Keita Takahashi, the game designer behind Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, mentioned he wanted to design playgrounds. He's been commissioned to do so, and the ball is now starting to get rolling, so to speak. More »
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Namco Bandai's Katamari Damacy series comes to the PlayStation 3 with Katamari Forever, the sixth entry in the series in five years. Once again, the Prince is tasked with rebuilding the galaxy using his all-adhesive katamari. More »
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Microsoft let reporters such as our own Brian Crecente play Namco's famous stuff-rolling game, Katamari Damacy, using the company's prototype hands-free control system, Project Natal. But Destructoid's Nick Chester is the reporter who I caught in the act. More »
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Project Natal, unveiled at E3 earlier this year in Los Angeles, got its first outing in Japan at the Tokyo Game Show this week. And project director Kudo Tsunoda didn't come empty handed. More »
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Have you ever really liked a game, tried to convince your friend how good it is and then discovered, as you talk about it, that the game might make less sense the more you talk about it? More »
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Weddings are a summer thing. June brides find happiness, there's good weather for an outdoor wedding and the most popular month in America to get hitched is August, according to some sources. More »
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Aidra and Ernest loved each other very, very much. So much that they got married. But it wasn't just any old wedding! It was one the King of the Cosmos would see fit to berate from on high. More »
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