How’s it work? Pasting a piece of JavaScript into Chrome’s address bar activates the hack, which reloads the page and separates all of its parts – words, images, etc. – into individual items. Just like the game, as the Katamari gets bigger it’s able to roll up larger items. The Katamari hack will provide you with hours of time-killing, frustration-dissipating fun on any Web page – your least favourite news network, your least favourite celebrity’s Twitter, your most favourite site whose redesign you dislike, anything!
Did we mention there’s a multiplayer feature? By going to the Katamari Hack Web site and pasting in a URL, you create a game session (listed on that site) which allows other people to join in.
GamePro, which spotted the hack yesterday, noted that the creator “has seemingly taken great pains to remain anonymous.” The page was originally hosted on an anonymous Amazon Web Services site. He seems to be out in the open now, as the code has moved to the URL kathack.com, whose owner, a Seattle programmer, is identifiable by a WHOIS lookup.
Katamari Google Chrome Hack [kathack, via GamePro]
Blaghman
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 11:47 AMThis is the greatest thing ever!
picky
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 12:22 PMoh i was about to say the complete opposite…
m
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 1:31 PMMustn’t have tried very hard to remain anonymous.. When you open the “http://kathack.com/js/kh.js” link within the Katamari code the first line you get is “Copyright Alex Leone, David Nufer, David Truong, 2011-03-11. kathack.com”
Doug Sherry
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 2:19 PMIt also works on Firefox