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• Beautiful Katamari demo rolls on to Xbox 360 in America, Canada, Mexico

  Published: August 14, 2007, 2:59 pm

  Tags: Videos, News, Katamari, Katamari Damacy, Beautiful Katamari, Game, Xbox 360, Demo, Namco, Bandai

  Today the Beautiful Katamari demo was released on to the Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Marketplace. It’s only available for download in America, Canada, and Mexico. Europeans will have to buy the Official Xbox Magazine issue 24 to get their hands on the ball… uh… demo. In Beautiful Katamari you roll your katamari and collect lots

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• Trailer for Beautiful Katamari from the Tokyo Game Show

  Published: September 25, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Videos, Microsoft, Games, Beautiful Katamari, Damacy, Katamari, Tgs, Trailer, Xbox

  Beautiful Katamari TGS 2007 Trailer At the Tokyo Game Show, Namco Bandai unveiled this new trailer for the upcoming Beautiful Katamari. As usual, the game will once again feature quirky graphics and really addictive gameplay. You know, I don’t care if this is basically the same game for the third time. I’m still looking forward to

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• Several New Trailers for Beautiful Katamari Show Off Music Soundtrack

  Published: September 26, 2007, 3:25 pm

  Tags: Videos, Microsoft, Games, Beautiful Katamari, Damacy, Katamari, Music, Soundtrack, Trailer, Xbox

  head for days. The Katamari Damacy games are known for their colorful soundtracks, and this one looks to be no different. The video above features the song “Bless My Stars,” but you can check out the other videos by hitting the links below. Beautiful Katamari ‘Boyfriend A Go Go’ Video Beautiful Katamari ‘Colorful

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• Beautiful Katamari Goes Gold

  Published: October 2, 2007, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Games Industry, Microsoft, Games, Beautiful, Damacy, Katamari, Release, Xbox

  Namco Bandai has announced that Beautiful Katamari has gone gold. The popular ball-rolling franchise returns on the Xbox 360 with high-definition visuals and a whole set of new features. This installment will contain maore levels than previous games in the series, each with many more objects to roll up. The wacky art style has been preserved, as

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• Music: Bob's w00t-Worthy Sound Collage

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:40 pm

  Tags: Contra, Halo, Ico, Katamari Damacy, Music, World Of Warcraft

  Kayak instructor and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at the University of California at Davis, Bob Ostertag, has rolled up a katamari-like collection of 8-bit to 64-bit samples in his video game "sound collage" titled w00t. Featuring carefully arranged blips and beats from games like Contra, Halo, Super Metroid, World of Warcraft and

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• Bizarre: A Katamari Damacy Date

  Published: October 24, 2007, 3:28 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games, Damacy, Katamari, Photos, Photoshoot

  Katamari Damacy fans are an interesting group indeed. One good piece of evidence for this is a photoshoot that recently cropped up on LiveJournal featuring two people enacting a date between the Prince of the Cosmos and a female…whatever they are. She also may or may no be one of his many cousins: a fact that really doesn’t make

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• Katamari creator no longer surprised by gaming

  Published: November 28, 2007, 9:24 am

  Tags: Psp, Ps3, Xbox 360, News, Katamari, Katamari Damacy, Game, Videogame, Keita Takahashi

  Damacy creator Keita Takahashi admitted he might leave games development to try something new. Speaking about creativity in a recent interview, Takahashi said: “Defining the word creativity is difficult in a sense. Even the likes of God of War, for instance, it is really well made. It’s a great graphic game with an interesting

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• Happy Katamari Holidays from Namco [Holiday Cards 07]

  Published: December 18, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Holiday Cards 07, Katamari Damacy, Namco Bandai, Original

  One of my favorite things about the holidays is the fun collection of Christmas cards I get. This year has been a little sparse, but what they've lost in quantity they've more than made up for with quality. Wouldn't be great to get a little box of cousins? I wonder what they'd taste like.

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• The Challenge of Naming Games [Game Design]

  Published: June 8, 2008, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Challenge, Culture, Katamari Damacy, Translation

  is to rename Katamari Damacy: if you had been working for Namco in 2004 and they had decided to give the game a new title, what would you have suggested? "Think up with something snappy that will appease the localization department, designers, and artists, who will likely create new cover art to accommodates the new title." Localization

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• Spell Check vs. Videogame Titles Fight!

  Published: June 9, 2008, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Sony, Portable, Nintendo, Microsoft, Game Platforms, Games, Computer, Game Consoles, Game Companies, Castlevania, Ikaruga, Katamari Damacy, Pikmin, Shigeru Miyamoto

  Televangelist. No Katamari Damacy — just Catamaran Intimacy. No Pikmin – just Minibike, as depicted above. What other examples can you come up with? ---Related Articles at Gaming Today:The Plastic Dark Knight in New LEGO Batman Teaser TrailerRaiden Enters OblivionGo Speed Racer Go! The Speed Racer Videogame is in Stores NowSpelling

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