I had heard a rumor that the team responsible for Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari had disbanded after making Me and My Katamari for the PSP. This was a huge bummer for me, since I could basically play those games for the rest of my life. Naturally, it came as a wonderful surprise this morning when I was made aware of Beautiful Katamari, the next in the series, available for the PS3 and 360.

The only problem with the old Katamari games was that you rapidly extinguish the available content and are left only with (albeit substantially entertaining) replay. Given the next-gen consoles penchant for downloadable bonus content a la map packs, etc., perhaps we'll see Beautiful Katamari being an expandable game with occasional shots of sweet rejuvenation from those (obviously very very high) developers at Namco.

Katamari, expansion packs, high definition.... I need a towel.

..and a PS3, I guess. working on that...