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Contests, Castle Crashers, Cabinets oh my!

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Hi!

In celebration of Castle Crashers upcoming release on PSN on August 31st, a number of sites around the interwebs are as excited as we are and are offering some awesome contests, sweepstakes, and other giveaways of sweet schwag.  For example, Destructoid is doing a giveaway now through August 30 at 11:59PM CDT.  G4tv is also offering a Castle Crashers Sweepstakes now through 11:59 AM PT on August 29th. Enter now to win some cool stuff!

There are a ton of other places doing giveaways, check on this thread on our forums for the latest on ongoing contests! Follow us on Twitter and become a fan of Castle Crashers on facebook for our own fun giveaways on launch day!

Meanwhile, we’ve been working on building that Castle Crashers Arcade Cabinet for PAX. Check out some in progress pics below!

*Quick Edit: Here’s the latest version of our controller layout for the cabinet. It’s looking crazy awesome so far, can’t wait to show it in its final form.

DIY Castle Crashers Helmet

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Orange Knight Signs at Comic Con 2009

Comic Con 2009 had a special visitor- The Orange Knight came by to sign autographs with Dan and the Orange Princess! Since we like to build stuff here at the Behemoth, I’m going to detail how I made the helmet. There’s no right or wrong way to build them, but this one is light and durable and provides good visibility. The one thing you might need to order is the foam filter material I used for white cross on the front. The pores of the foam are pretty far apart, so the visibility out of the helmet is great. This is what I ordered:

Polyurethane Foam Air Filter Pad, 1/4″ thick item # 9803K3 from McMaster.com 20 pores per inch.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#9803k3/=459erh

Everything else you can get at a hardware store. You’ll need a five gallon bucket, mat knife, cardboard, paint, scrap foam blocks (rigid styrofoam, like packing material) and soft foam, hot glue, Elmers white glue, Gorilla glue (for filling gaps) and tape. Ready, Set, GO!
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1.We’ll start with a 5 gallon bucket for rigidity and durability. But it is heavy!
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