Square Up or Back Off (Barbarian) at PAX West 2019!

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The Back Off Barbarian High Score Challenge is coming to PAX West 2019, and we’re challenging you, and you, and anyone who comes to the show, and especially YOU!

Back Off Barbarian High Score Challenge

Entering is easy, winning is the hard part. To play, swing by our PAX West arcade at booth #1501 from 10 AM to 4 PM on any day of the show and try to survive longer than your friends, your enemies, and everyone else in Back Off Barbarian. If you manage to come out on top, you’ll earn yourself a big ol’ bag of Behemoth swag.

For the rule-followers and goody-two-shoes alike, here’s a full breakdown of the entry rules:

  • Play Back Off Barbarian in our arcade between 10 AM and 4 PM any day of PAX West. We’ll be located at booth #1501!
  • If you survive long enough to earn yourself a spot on the high-score table, enter your initials and snap a photo of your achievement with your phone.
  • Post the picture of your high score to Instagram using the hashtag #BOBChallengePAX.
  • You can try to snag that high score as many times as you’d like each day; you’ll just have to wait in line in between rounds.
  • Each day of the show, the person with the highest score will be crowned champion and earn themselves an awesome prize! However, an individual can only win one prize for the challenge during the PAX West 2019 weekend.

And that’s all there is to it! Bring your shufflin’ shoes, and get to surviving. We’ll see you there!

Hello, Seattle 👋 We’re crashing PAX West 2019!

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Ah yes, Seattle. Land of the Space Needle, Starbucks, and PAX West! We’ll be there (at PAX West 2019, that is) from August 30th through September 2nd at Booth #1501, and you should come, too!

PAX West is a gaming convention of epic proportions, one where we always pull out all the stops and show up in a big way. The biggest of ways, in fact. And we’ll prove it.

Read on for a preview of the entire amalgamation of everything we’ll have with us this year at PAX:

Smash and bash your way through the kingdom with playable demos of Castle Crashers Remastered for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4! Both versions of the upcoming port will be available to play for all show attendees, so grab some friends or make some new ones at the show and get ready to crash some castles!

We’ll also have arcade cabinets for all of our games, from A to… P. Alien Hominid, BattleBlock Theater, Castle Crashers, and Pit People. Play all of your Behemoth favorites with an arcade classic twist! On top of all that, we’re also bringing Back Off Barbarian, which you’re going to want to start practicing ahead of time…

Back Off Barbarian is coming back to PAX with a new high score contest to challenge and delight! Practice your fancy footwork for a chance to win fame and fortune (more or less). We’ll have more details on the competition coming in a future blog post, but in the meantime get hoppin’!

STATUES! Your favorite Behemoth characters will come to (still) life as maybe-life-size-but-maybe-not-life-size statues that you can snap selfies with. Gluten, the Blue Knight, and a Barbarian will all be there, along with an on duty Cat Guard for… guarding purposes. While you’re at the show, you’ll also have an opportunity to share any photos you take with them on social media for a chance to win a goodie bag full of Behemoth prizes!

And of course, we’ll be setting up our Gift Shop so you can get your goods. Keep an eye out for a merch feature post in the upcoming weeks, but just know that we’ll be bringing an all new, all beef PAX exclusive to the show.

We know you’re excited, and we are too! But don’t worry, it’ll be here before you know it. See you soon!

San Diego Comic-Con 2019: The Recap

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It’s always wonderful be able to attend a show right in our backyard… even if that backyard is much, much too small for all of our visiting friends. Regardless, San Diego Comic-Con was one crowded, sweaty, close-up get together and we had another excellent year being a part of it!

Those that braved the sea of people to reach us in Hall A were met with a bright blue booth bursting with Behemoth-y goodness. Attendees got to play our Castle Crashers Switch demo, enter fun contests to try to win goodies, and even meet the one and only Dan himself!

You can get a little taste of Comic-Con from our recap video:

If that wasn’t enough and you’re still hungry for more, you can view our Comic-Con photo album right here.

It never gets old having people run up to tell us that they love playing Castle Crashers with their friends, family, dog, or whoever. We’re grateful to be able to create these experiences for people, and we’ve got more coming.

Of course, summer isn’t over yet and neither is our tradeshow tour! Next up is none other than PAX West, and we’re going to pull out all the stops for Seattle!

See ya soon!

Love,

The Behemoth

(It’s not weird if we say love, right? We felt like we were ready to take that step, so we just did. Love you.)