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Noby Noby Boy players helped his counterpart, GIRL, reach the planet Uranus last week. Juvenile jokes on the achievement aside, it is quite a feat, as GIRL reached Jupiter back in November 2009 before moving on to Saturn. Next up, is Neptune, which depending on how the planets are aligned at the time is another 911,453,788 miles at best, and 4,679,048,095 miles at its farthest. Thanks, Kotaku.

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Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi believes the Japanese game industry is in a bit of a sad state, and has suggested the sector does its best work after it has hit a downward slope.

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Katamari creator Keita Takahashi has revealed the reasons why he left Namco Bandai earlier this year, saying he felt he “didn’t belong” at the publisher “any more.”

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Katamari and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi has left publisher Namco Bandai, according to play.tm.

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Katamari and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi is planning on taking a break from games, because he felt the future presented at E3 this year is looking “a bit dull”.

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Hey Noby Noby Boy… players (?), there’s now a new in-game area for you to play (?) in! Over the weekend, dedicated Noby Noby fans managed to pool their scores and stretch GIRL all the way to Jupiter – thanks in part to a tremendous length multiplier.

Huh? What’d we just say? Holy cow, we spoke in tongues! Neato!

Check out a video of colorful wriggly things partying it up on Jupiter after the break. Hm. Now we’re hungry for gummy worms.

Thanks, PSN Stores.

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GamerBytes  has released a list of the top ten best selling games on PSN in April.

Hopefully your favorites did well.

1. Rag Doll Kung Fu
2. Worms
3. Wheel of Fortune
4. Flower
5. Mortal Kombat II
6. Comet Crash
7. Ratcher & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
8. Linger in Shadows
9. PAIN
10. Noby Noby Boy

You can get the full analysis and break down through the link.

Thanks, D’toid.

Looks like Noby Noby Boy’s Girl has reached Mars a lot sooner than expected, thanks to a Lucky Week promotion that multiplied lengths submitted by players.

Back in April, player levels had dropped for the title, and it was estimated that it would take Girl another 2,000 days to reach the Red Planet.

Girl’s next goal is Jupiter.

Via GameSetWatch.

There’s a video from the PS Blog after the break of Noby Noby Boy’s multiplayer in action. It’s completely baffling. Don’t believe us?

Said Namco’s Keita Takahashi:

I’d like to share a little bit more about Multiplayer. In Single player, the game allows BOY to eat another BOY as well as people and animals, etc. In Multiplayer though, eating everything has some funny consequences. For example, if the head of a 1P BOY eats the rear of a 2P BOY, the two players end up with a combined BOY.

Head: Player 1
Rear: Player 2

This could be very confusing because one BOY is controlled by two players. Moreover, the fact that the game is compatible for up to four players could bring even more chaotic situations. Doesn’t that sound fun?

“Confusing”. That’s the word you probably want to latch on to. More through there. Hit the link for the video.

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Player levels for Noby Noby Boy have dropped from an initial 60,000 to 1,000, meaning GIRL’s trip to Mars will take over 2,000 days current levels, says a website designed to track her progress.

Daily activity for the game sits around 1,500, rarely reaching 2,000 and almost falling below 1,000 occasionally, and while 300-500 new players are trying Noby out on a daily basis, people are also leaving the game.

Keita Takahashi has said that it would take 820 years for GIRL to connect the entire solar system.

Lofty goal there.

Via DarkZero.

Namco Bandai has confirmed that Keita Takahashi is “not involved” with Katamari Damacy Tribute, the classic puzzler’s upcoming PS3 version announced last week.

The company has assured Eurogamer that despite the original creator not being attached, it’s still “in good hands”.

Which is nice. More through the link.

Keita Takahashi confirmed that Noby Noby Boy’s on its way to iPhone in his GDC session yesterday.

He showed it running. It features a multi-touch control scheme, with the player manipulating each end of the stretchy BOY character – represented in 2D – with a different finger.

Apparently he started it “a week ago”.

More on Eurogamer.

SCEA just released the first movie of Noby Noby Boy’s multiplayer. After the break.

It’s a “teaser video of the multiplayer mode,” according to Keita Takahashi.

Unsurprisingly, it looks completely indecipherable and bonkers.

More odd games from GDC, please.

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Keita Takahashiwa is gushing with thanks over player reception of Noby Noby Boy over on the US PS blog, where he also mentions that an offline multiplayer update is currently in the works.

Girl has reached the Moon, but it’s a long way to Mars, he says, so he wants more people to start playing it.

“It would take all the current players a while to reach Mars, so more people have to join in on the fun,” he wrote.

“In the hopes that more people can enjoy the game, we are currently working on an update. A featured addition to the update is going to be offline multiplayer. Some may say, ‘Offline!?’ But it’ll still be fun. Please check it out.”

He also writes about staff reaction to its popularity and being a bit depressed over some of the criticism the game’s received.

Hit the link.

The official website for Noby Noby Boy has a teaser image posted which suggests that updates are coming soon.

Possible offline four-player multiplayer mode is suggested with the line “Even though it may be offline… I want to play multi-BOY!”, and new music is also implied with “Guiter music are good but music from castanets, triangles, and maracas is something I’d like to listen.”

Yes, the script on the page spells guitar like that.

Namco declined to comment on any updates when approached by Eurogamer, but the game has 47,685 players so far and GIRL has already reached the moon–hopefully that’s enough to give Keita Takahashi ample reason to create more content.

Odd and strangely fun-looking Noby Noby Boy will be released in the UK February 19, the same day as the rest of the world.

Hopefully PSN can keep releasing things simultaneously worldwide from here on out.

The game will cost £3.19 and $4.99 in the US, and since it’s so cheap, there is no reason not to give it a try.

The PS Blog has a post by Keita Takahashi of Namco Bandai explaining in words of one syllable was PSN game Noby Noby Boy actually is.

Players control and stretch the main character Boy who, as he grows, uploads his lengths to a persistent character known as Girl, which grows at the same rate as the combined length of all the players in the world.

When she’s grown enough to expand around the solar system and reach a new milestone, playable stages are unlocked for all players in the game.

Takahashi explained that he “wanted to make a game that cannot be expressed by words in the first place” and that he hopes player reaction will be, “I don’t know why, but it’s somehow interesting. I can’t stop playing.”

Sounds about right from the sound of things.

Video is through jump, and screens are posted here.

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Kotaku has obtained the marketing instructions for Namco Bandai’s rather odd looking Noby Noby Boy revealing that the PSN title is not a “so-called game.”

Well, what is it then, we hear you cry? The release note unfortunately doesn’t say, but instead directs you to look at images and videos on the internet.

So, at Namco Bandai’s request you can watch a trailer for the game here and see if you can work out what it is.

One thing the marketing instructions did say, however, was that Noby Noby Boy will be available worldwide on February 19.

Full marketing instructions after the break.

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Below is a some rather strange looking gameplay from Katamari Damacy developer Keita Takahashi’s PSN game, Noby Noby Boy.

See it stretch and take out a car. See it bump into little girls and eat the love hearts that flow from the collision, see… well, see for yourselves.

Noby Noby Boy releases in Japan on Jan 4 and will cost ￥800 ($9). Europe and expect it a little later.

By Mike Bowden

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According to this Kotaku story, Noby Noby Boy – developed by Katamari creator Keita Takahashi – will release in Japan and Korea on January 29 for ￥800 ($9).

SCEE’s said the title will be out in Europe early next year for €4. However good it is, is has to be worth that much. You’d hope.

New screens through there.