Castle Crashers Release Date…..No, seriously.

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August 27th, 2008 is our release date. I’m sure you will read it everywhere else before you read it here, but hey that’s just the way these things happen sometimes. We are excited, and relieved to finally be able to say,  Castle Crashers releases on August 27th!

As we get closer to the release date, which is conveniently 2 days before we attend the Penny Arcade Expo we want to make sure your first day of playing Castle Crashers is going to be freakishly enjoyable. With that said we are excited to announce that one of the unlockable characters in Castle Crashers is our little yellow friend Alien Hominid. The best part about this is that if you have purchased the full version of Alien Hominid HD you will have automatically received this unlock on your Castle Crashers character select screen the day you purchase the game.  (August 27th, 2008) We wanted to make sure to include this for all of our fans out there who supported us with the purchase of Alien Hominid HD. If it wasn’t for your support we might not be here today.

More to come later as soon as we unpack from Comic-Con and get our office back in some working order. Microsoft is also having an awesome “Summer of Arcade” promotion where every time you download Castle Crashers you receive one entry for a chance to win 100,000 Microsoft Points, 12 month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, and an Xbox 360 Elite console.

One last thing for all of the people who have asked this question, “When is Castle Crashers coming out?”,

August 27th, 2008

August 27th, 2008

August 27th, 2008

August 27th, 2008

August 27th, 2008

Thanks!

-Emil-

161 thoughts on “Castle Crashers Release Date…..No, seriously.”

  1. REALLY GUYS!?

    1800? cant you choose something logical. like even i dont know….1600? a point increment i can buy? but no logic isnt cool.

    glad i personally have a plethora of points

  2. Eric is right. same items dont cost more MS points in other countries. only the distribution of points may vary. well anyways the price is more likely over 1000 so i need to get more ms points (got only 950)

    I understand if they do have the “high price” of 1800 which is comparable to the amount of effort put in CC. so i’m gonna get it whatever the price just had to go through the routine of buying overpriced MS points card from my happy finnish salesman.

  4. To be fair, I don’t think The Behemoth sets the price points. Probably Microsoft’s call, but I could be wrong.

  5. i was excited to have enough points until the end of the year. i was like ill get braid and castle crashers and still have 1200 points or so. but now castle crashers is 1800 and braid is 1200. glad my 3.2k points will be enough though

  6. Nice to see this game is finally coming out but since i’m probably gonna be ditching my 360 soon i’m wondering if you guys will ever release this on the Playstation Network? Seems pretty crazy you haven’t released this or AH on there as they’d no doubt sell like hotcakes and not be subject to the stupidity of having to wait for stuff on XBLA.

  7. Suprised you guys didn’t see it, on that famitsu site it says:
    配信予定日 8月20日
    Whatever that is translated I am assuming means release date, which we all know to be inaccurate. Therefore, the 1800 point price tag is most likely wrong as well.

  8. Suprised you guys didn’t see it, on that famitsu site it says:
    配信予定日 8月20日
    Whatever that is translated I am assuming means release date, which we all know to be inaccurate. Therefore, the 1800 point price tag is most likely wrong as well.

  10. hey guys. Don’t you think that the behemoth would be the first to know their own hard work’s price. Besides, cards of points come in 1600, and 4800, no game in america is worth 1800 microsoft points. I mean, seriously.

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  11. Well I thought I was kidding by having to “sell my first born” for the game… but 1800mspts… that’s a lot for an arcade game.

    I do understand that this is still speculation, that no pricing details have been released officially, but if this is true, I can’t help but feel a little disappointed. Can I afford that, of course. I had a pretty clear idea in my mind that this game wouldn’t see for 800mspts (although in therm of value and playability, I compare it to Bionic Command Rearmed which will go for 800mspts) I had accepted the idea of going for 1200mspts which I believe is right pricing. But 1800mspts is a little exaggerated. I can definitely see sales being hurt on the long run with that pricing.

    And if the 1800mspts stands, I and a few other will really feel that the “free theme and gamepics” freebies are actually NOT free but bundled into the price of the game.

    Again, I’m not pointing fingers at anyone here, but just feel that if this 1800mspts is true, it will be a disappointement.

  12. alright behemoth is it actually 1800 ms points?

    i thought the penny arcade people were stuck up for charging 1600ms points

    but 1800. wow. personally im still gonna buy it. but you guys are gonna be losing sooo many fans.

  13. If this were a $30 Wii title everyone would go nuts at the amazing value. Just because we’re used to most games being priced at $10 on XBLA does not mean you’re getting ripped off. I’m sure all of us have spent $60 on retail titles that have a fraction of Castle Crashers’ depth and content.

    For those of you still in doubt regarding the price, this is being reported on a lot of gaming sites and blogs at this point. We’ll know for sure one way or another pretty soon, but if you still expect it to be less than 1600 points, you’re probably wasting your time.

  14. Here is what is happening. MS has some hyped titles. They are pricing them like this:

    Geometry Wars 2 = 800 pts (when GW1 was 400)
    Bionic Commando = 800 pts (pretty much current standard pricing)
    Braid = 1200 pts (1 step up from 800)
    CC = 1800 pts (weird price even farther up)

    IMO, this is clearly an attempt to compare sales on all these games to see what price the Arcade \’market\’ will support. If it turns out enough people buy the more expensive games (compared to the old price), we will never see hyped titles come out at 800 points again. MS is trying to see if it can justify raising the price floor (from 800 pts) on all Arcade titles.

  16. I’m pretty sure the publisher sets the price, not MS. Remember that Poll Behemoth held awhile back asking what price people would be willing to pay? Why would they do that if they had no control over it.

    Second, all of you need to stop blaming MS for things that aren’t there fault. The games “late” release is because Behemoth took their time to finish their game, you all complain about a 1 month certification process because you’ve been waiting for 2 years for this game, well the 2 years was not MS’s fault. Grow up.

    Once you all realize that Behemoth is a company, not your personal friend, you will finally be able to comprehend that they are a company and there sole reason for existence is to continue making more games. To do this, they need income and if they see the great demand for this game, they will price it accordingly to benefit most from it like any other company.

  18. Japan has always had a different price scheme for Live Arcade. Have you seen the source on all of those articles? Japanese websites. The game won’t be more than 1600 in the East.

  19. thanks, . Anyone, no game has ever been 1800, and you guys are getting all riled up about something you saw on a japanese site! I mean, if the behemoth doesn’t know the price, what makes you think some bloggers do? And now you guys are all just annoying everyone, saying hey 1800’s alot, and you’ll lose fans and money. Just be patient, gosh.

  20. Seriously guys 1200 MSP would be pushing it but 1600/1800 and you’ll loose a huge huge portion of sales. Lower the price and you’l increase sales by at least 3 times as many.

    During a period of huge huge retail launches having one of, if not the most expensive titles on the XBLA is a ridiculously bad decision.

    Disappointing 🙁

  22. i like how keith thinks he is clever. but still cant draw. go to his blog. its like looking at a tire track and him saying its a person.

  23. I like how you are attakcing me personally when i in no way made a reply to you earlier.

    you have to be like 8 years old. nothing you can say or do bothers me, you are an anonymous nobody that no one cares about.

    more on point you are complaining on a price you dont even know is real yet

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