Wattam is a crazy title from Keita Takahashi and Funomena.
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Annapurna Interactive will publish Keita Takahashi’s wacky Wattam in 2018

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Annapurna Interactive has emerged as a game publisher that is willing to take risks on indie titles, and today it is announcing that it will publish Keita Takahashi’s next game, Wattam, on consoles and PC in 2018.

Takahashi, who works at San Francisco indie game studio Funomena, is best known as the creator of the wacky and wildly creative Katamari Damacy, where you roll around a big ball and try to pick up things that will stick to it. Namco first published the game in 2004, and it won numerous awards and spawned eight sequels. It was so zany that the game was included in an exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Wattam will be shown at the PAX West fan show in Seattle this week.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.