GDC 06: Loco Roco confirmed for global release

Sony's cute ball-rolling game set to roll around the world this summer on Sony's handheld; more details expected soon.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--As part of Phil Harrison's keynote address at the 2006 Game Devleopers Conference, Sony has confirmed that Loco Roco, the 2D ball-rolling game that some have likened to a 2D take on Katamari Damacy, will be coming to the US and Europe as part of the game's worldwide release this summer.

The game was first shown to the public at the Tokyo Game Show 2005 last September. Loco Roco revolves around what can only be described as an orange blob with a voracious appetite. Using the handheld's triggers, gamers tilt the screen back and forth in order to progress through levels.

For more news from the event, check out GameSpot's GDC 2006 page.

21 Comments

  • CrashSpyro123

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 4:02 pm PT

    Great news. This should be a fun game.

  • orangestar

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 1:46 pm PT

    The game looks awesome...

  • Sandman100

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 1:12 pm PT

    Not the best it be an ok PSP game. This game seems to be something that the Japan would like why is it been relesed here.

  • Sandman100

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 1:11 pm PT

    WHAT is this.

  • diggyzoom

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 12:29 pm PT

    this will be the the best psp game yet

  • nemes1s3000

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 12:14 pm PT

    Hmmm, still not convinced.

  • Furbyballistik

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 12:05 pm PT

    omg!! tha psp is ruling this year wit games!! i already knew its time would come, jus like ps2 it took it a full year to get its games great!! i love tha psp!! =]

  • Pablo620

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 12:02 pm PT

    Good news that its coming here, it would have been stupi for this not to go worldwide seeing how katamari has landed in the u.s. well

  • damagooon

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:45 am PT

    They just showed a new video of it at GDC .Apparently it looks decent.
    Not that I will be getting a childish game...(in that case I'd get a Gamecube )

  • ShockerD19

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:44 am PT

    awesome!

  • DJGeki

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:41 am PT

    You know what? Who cares if it's even remotely like Katamari? Katamari Damacy was one of the first semi-creative (actually, it was pretty creative...the authors must've been doing acid or some other hallucingenic) games to come out of the industry in a long time. I'd LOVE to see something else in the same vein, but with a twist. Fortunately, Loco Roco seems to be grinding its own path, with a likeness to Super Monkey Ball, Mercury, and/or the old tilting Labyrinth board games. If making the orange ball made it grow or gave it different abilities, that'd make it even more like KD, but cooler IMO. I'm all for the industry going ballistic with creativity, rather than pumping out the sequel-icious drivel that's been paid for time and again for the past 10 years. GO BUY STUFF LIKE PSYCHONAUTS!!!! Support the little guys!!! (yes, I know SCEI isn't the "little guys" I was talking about, but the developer is most likely taking a chance for the in-house group that Sony drives.)

  • jonnyjd

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:41 am PT

    Guess I need to do some reading on Loco Roco. Don't know too much about it.

  • Piernik

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:35 am PT

    LORO ROCO - ROOOOLA HOOLA GOOLA

  • buildar

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:31 am PT

    nevermind its more like those funny little handheld things full of water that you tilt to make the bubbles move through

  • buildar

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:28 am PT

    it seems to be a little more akin to super monkey ball. Only the ball is super hungry instead.

  • jolly1976

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:23 am PT

    Nice launch line-up

  • Tamashii_Sensei

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:22 am PT

    Awesome.

  • SnowFarmer

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:20 am PT

    This is good news. This game looks like fun and it is somethign different from a lot of the me too games that dominate today. One last point Loco Roco is certainly not a Katamari ripoff, I don't even begin to know where you got that impression. Loco Roco has much more in common with a game like Mercury than with KD.

  • Ornihopter

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:14 am PT

    IMO its far from a 2D katamari.

  • Donkeljohn Site moderator

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:13 am PT

    Good news! I've been waiting for the crazy blob game to make its North America debut.

  • frankeyser

    Posted Mar 22, 2006 11:05 am PT

    i still like loco roco even if it is a katamari rip off.

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