Skinning your Xbox 360 Dashboard with a Katamari theme costs cold cash, but MSN users can grab Katamari content for free. Namco Bandai teamed up with Microsoft to release animated Beautiful Katamari GIFs and themes. While the promotion was only…

Microsoft is extending their family friendly stance to Japan. On December 15, they held a Merry Christmas event at Tokyo Bay. Kids could meet the characters from Viva Piñata and try out a handful of CERO A video games like…

Each downloadable level in Beautiful Katamari rings in at 200 Microsoft Points ($2.50). Four of the pay-per-play stages are now available in Japan (three for Asia), three more are coming out next week. On the plus side, the add on…

Over at Namco Bandai’s HQ I spoke to Jun Moriwaki, the producer of Beautiful Katamari. I mentioned how I enjoyed seeing items like the Xbox 360 consoles and controllers in the demo and he told me they would be in…

Over at the Namco Bandai booth there was a cell phone running Katamari Damacy Mobile with a huge surprise, tilt control. I picked up the cell phone and excitedly looked at the graphics. For a cell phone game Katamari Damacy…

If the 10+ stages in Beautiful Katamari are not enough for you there are going to be seven downloadable stages to purchase over the Xbox Live Marketplace. Unlike the basic Katamari premise these stages aren’t about rolling up the biggest…

On the Xbox Live Marketplace there is a Beautiful Katamari theme for 150 Microsoft Points ($1.87) and a bunch of picture packs to purchase for 80 Microsoft Points ($1). Purchasing picture packs of earthlings and the Prince may not be…

Can you feel the Cosmos? Namco Bandai is throwing the tiny Prince into Dragon Tamer Sound Spirit as a guest monster. As you can see he isn’t as miniscule and he has the body of a dragon. Namco is no…

Namco Bandai is adding some neato additions fueled by Xbox Live for Beautiful Katamari. For competitive gamers there is a four player versus mode coined the “thingy battle.” Before the battle starts the King of All Cosmos shows the players…

Namco Bandai released the Beautiful Katamari demo on Xbox Live in the US store last night, a whole week ahead of Japan. The demo level is nearly the same as the E3 build where you have three minutes to grow your…

There is no shortage of media coming from Beautiful Katamari and the trailer over on Dengeki Online is different from the basic E3 trailer. You can see much more gameplay footage, including some clips of the multiplayer modes where four katamaris…

Great news Katamari fans! Namco Bandai is going to release a demo of Beautiful Katamari on the Japanese Xbox Live store on August 22. As of now the demo is only announced for Japan, but if you set up an…