Seriously? Score!! We are so pleased.
Kotaku reports that Katamari Damacy Online is coming... to Korea.
Details are scarce, but it's not being done by Namco... it has been farmed out to Windysoft, a game development house in Korea that specializes in casual games. Like, internet flash games I guess. It sort of sounds like a "we asked Namco and they said Yeah, Sure" kind of thing. No platform is mentioned, but everything else they've done looks online-PC-based.
I love that the logo has the big Japanese title of the game, but with little tiny Korean characters hidden in the lower left corners. And, of course, "online" is in English.
Via a translated page from another site, Kotaku mentions that KDO (oooh! Let's make that the official abbreviation!) will have Vs. battles similar to the multiplayer in We Love Katamari (hopefully better than, right?) The game will also have a community element to it, in the form of that customizable avatar junk that you get everywhere nowadays.
Everybody is assuming this is being produced for the Korean market, but Windysoft has localized games for Japan as well. Namco knows that the franchise is popular worldwide, and it's pretty obvious that we'll get some kind of new game in this generation. But I would not be surprised to hear that KDO will stay in the Pacific Rim.
Speaking of which, you have played this, right?
