A story about friendship, betrayal, and a whole truck load of cats.

Having shipwrecked on a mysterious island you find yourself both betrayed by your best friend Hatty and captured by the locals. All of this is happening while being forced into deadly performances. This however, is just the start of your problems.

BattleBlock Theater is our upcoming third title for the Xbox Live Arcade. Website to follow in the next few days and as we inch closer to the release of the title we’ll be unfolding more of the story online.

Enjoy.

-Emil-

So you may have heard.. since January 20th we’ve been raising money for Haiti relief efforts by donating 200% of proceeds from ALL downloadable content (DLC) sales for Castle Crashers or Alien Hominid.  We’ve just received some numbers regarding the donation that we would like to share with you!

Between Jan 20-24th through your DLC purchases — you raised $15,585.65!!!  We are matching that, for a donation of $31,171.29!!! This is truly amazing. You amaze us.

Let’s amaze each other. With your help, we can get to a total donation of at least $50,000. We already announced continuing the fundraiser through today - but we’ll keep this going as long as it takes to reach 50K for Haiti Relief. Come on world!  Let’s do this.

For reference, here is all our DLC available:

Alien Hominid HD DLC available:
Alien Hominid HD – Challenge Pack (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Classic Pack 1 (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Classic Pack 2 (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Euro Pack (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Hot New Levels (150 Microsoft Point)
also Picture Packs (100 Microsoft Points)

Castle Crashers DLC available:
Castle Crashers – Necromantic Pack (160 Microsoft Points)
Castle Crashers – King Pack (160 Microsoft Points)
also Picture Packs (80 to 100 Microsoft Points)
and Premium Theme pack (250 Microsoft Points)

-the behemoth

Dear friends,

We have been truly humbled by the generosity of people contributing to our, and so many other, Haiti relief fundraisers over the last week. We haven’t gotten exact numbers in yet, but we know there’s been a LOT of dlc downloaded for our games in the last few days since we announced the Super Chicken Super Charity Haiti fundraiser, which means double LOTS of $ donated to the Red Cross Haiti Relief fund. (We’ll update this with the numbers when we get em!) We don’t want to stop now, though, because there is so much more aid needed and so much more work to be done to help the people of Haiti begin to recover from this catastrophe. So we are going to continue the fundraiser through this Friday (January 29th).

Once again, that’s 100 % of all revenue generated by downloadable content (dlc game add-ons, themes, and picture packs) for Castle Crashers or Alien Hominid on XBLA will be donated to disaster relief in Haiti. PLUS, The Behemoth will match the amount raised through dlc sales, for a Double Dose of Haitian Donation. This week we’ll be donating all the money raised to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international medical humanitarian organization. From the MSF website: “Despite enduring profound losses of their own, Haitian members of MSF’s staff have continued to do everything they can to provide emergency medical care to their countrymen and women in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake.”

So that’s a total of 200% of all our revenue from dlc, Monday January 25 through Friday January 29th, going to MSF to help out with the continuing medical crisis in Haiti. Its a chance to support a really great cause that will benefit those who are in need and get to add some additional content to your games!

The Behemoth 

For the next few days (Wednesday January 20th to Sunday, January 24th) we are going to help with disaster relief in Haiti and you can help too! We’ll help each other to a double helping of help for those who need help! Isn’t that helpful!

100 % of all revenue generated by downloadable content for either of our titles on XBLA will be donated to disaster relief in Haiti. PLUS, all of The Behemoth employees have decided that as a group, we will personally match the amount generated by you all! Who will WIN? Everyone.

Wait, what? OK. If you download DLC for either Castle Crashers or Alien Homind HD in the next 4 days, we’ll donate all the money we get TIMES TWO to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development. So basically, you’re helping out a great cause that will benefit those who are in need and get to add some additional content to your games.

The Behemoth

There’s more and more to do every day it seems!  So, we’ve decided to save a lot of time with our new printer that has the ability to not only print images that exist in the same time and space as OURSELVES but it can ALSO print stickers or vinyl stuff that goes on glass (IE.  car window stickers!).

Click below to see the full list of pictures of our process…….

This is our print with the transfer paper over top.  The white background will actually be transparent if we printed the shirt as a final run, but for our test this time we didn’t have transparent paper handy.

This purple and black thing is the heat press.  It gets super hot and burns the image directly onto the fabric!

And then of course the final result!   It burned in so well it felt just like part of the t-shirt.  Felt soft and reinforced.  Kind of like an apple danish.

What do you guys think of this design (if the white background was gone)?   No good?  Perfect?  Needs salt?  More apple danishy?

-dan

That’s right! If you experience time in a similar fashion as myself then today Castle Crashers is 50% off on XBLA. This deal is today only so you must attack it with grace and speed.

On your 360 dashboard: Spotlight > New Year’s Countdown > Door #2

This must be some kind of holiday miracle or something.

-dan

P.S. oh darnit kelly, you beat me to it. but mine has a pretty picture!

Today only! (December 30th, 2009)

Castle Crashers is half price (560 spacebucks) on XBLA!

As an added bonus, we’ll be giving away a bunch of Castle Crashers dlc codes via a contest on twitter today.  It is a good day to start crashing some Castles!

Happy New Year hugs everypeoples!

kelly

Quick and simple. Thanks for all of your support this year everyone. We wouldn’t be here today without all of your help. We’re excited for the new year to start so we can bring you Castle Crashers on the PSN and our third game.

Thanks!

-Emil-

Check out these awesome, and delicious, cookies made for us as a holiday gift from our friend Clint Burgin and his wife.

Clint also happens to be the talented guy who sculpts all sorts of cool stuff for us, like the prototypes for the figures, and those giant figures you may have seen with us at trade shows. Thanks so much for this tasty treat!

In other news, you’ll notice we’re doing some upgrades to our forums, blogs, etc, etc. We’ll have some random downtime as we work out all the issues, but everything should be up and running in the next few days.

Here’s wishing you a sweet (get it?) holiday from all of us at The Behemoth.

As we near yet another end the end of another year here at The Behemoth, we look back. We look back on the endless stream of frantic and fun tradeshows (five of them!) and the beginning of exciting new projects like our 3rd Game and Castle Crashers for PS3.

16 months now since our baby Castle Crashers first blinked at the wide world, and it is still the top rated game on all of XBLA, as rated by Xbox 360 gamers.  That means a lot to us because it isn’t just a publication, it is voting from the gamers themselves. That means that you guys like what we made and we liked you even before you liked us ANYWAY, so we couldn’t like you even more since we already liked you at maximum capacity.

By our ACTUAL count, Castle Crashers has saved 27 marriages (while destroying 1, sorry about that), created 346 father/daughter bonding experiences, been tattooed on 39 bodies, and resulted in exactly 520,687,903 hours of entertainment  for people all over the planet.  That’s pretty amazing. If you were to ask me what’s amazing I would have included that in my response.

I can tell you that you can give Castle Crashers to someone as a gift. And here are two ways to do it:

1) If you happen to live in the USA you can click here, to gift the game via Amazon (or to add it to your Amazon wishlist!)

2) Or, if you prefer to have a physical something to wrap up in a box with a pretty bow, you can go to The Behemoth’s online store and get a special card with the game code (we ship anywhere). As an added bonus, this comes with a free limited-edition collectible pewter medallion. There were only 1000 made, and only a few hundred left! You can gift the Game and the Medallion, or keep the medallion for yourself!

And of course, for your special someone who is already a fan of Castle Crashers, don’t forget to check our all the cool Castle Crashers Shwag!

Here’s wishing you a joyous holiday, and thanks again for all your support this year! …and don’t worry, we have a few more surprises in store for you before the year is out. 

The Behemoth