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Late Greetings From Ubi, Katamari

kata2.jpg Those wags over at GamePro have bent their page template out of shape by scanning and posting some game company Xmas cards, albeit just after the holiday itself.

A number of them are pretty neat, including the LucasArts card that we previously mentioned, but the two highlights are probably a Ubisoft card celebrating 20 years of the company's games, with pixelated versions of The Prince Of Persia, Myst's Atrus and Rayman, plus a Katamari Damacy holiday card from Namco - which looks like it was done by the same (Western?) artist that designed the U.S. cover for We Love Katamari. But we'll forgive them, since it's the holiday season.

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It's not THAT bad, you know. Or at least it's not as bad as the US cover. It just proves that whoever designed it (and the cover) didn't really get Katamari Damacy or Keita Takahashi, for that matter.

Although I like it less than Japan's We Love Katamari cover, I still really like it, and I like this postcard too. I think that both reflect the diversity of art styles that Katamari embraces.

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