After 14 years, a new Katamari game might finally be in development, as Bandai Namco has just filed a trademark for "Once Upon a Katamari".
As reported by Gematsu, the last game in the series was Touch My Katamari for the PS Vita in 2011. The only 'new' Katamari titles since then have been remasters (or "REROLLS") of the original PS2 games, Damacy and We Love Katamari.
If you haven't played a Katamari game before, the premise is pretty simple. You roll up everything in sight into a ball until you're big enough to gobble up the countryside.
Once Upon a Katamari doesn't follow the remaster naming convention we saw with the last two games, so it appears to be an entirely new entry. But not much else can be gleaned from the trademark page right now, so all we have to work with is the name.
Aside from a new Katamari, Bandai Namco also trademarked something called "Gekishin Squadra". As Gematsu noted, this could be related to Dragon Ball Z 2: Gekishin Freeza, a Famicom game from 1991. But Gekishin isn't a Dragon Ball-exclusive term; it simply means "severe earthquake". So, it's worth taking that idea with a...
