September 2015 – Page 5 – The Behemoth Blog

Update on 9:30AM, September 20, 2015 – Castle Crashers Remastered has launched in Portugal!

Last week, we announced the Castle Crashers Remastered release date & pricing for North America. Today, we’re excited to announce more countries will be also be launching on September 9, 2015!

In addition to USA, Canada, and Mexico, the EU regions that will be launching tomorrow include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia. (More countries to come in future days!)

This means that all of those countries will also be able to take part in our Thank-You-For-Saving-Our-Lives-That-One-Time special promo! To reiterate: “Castle Crashers Remastered on Xbox One will be $14.99 which is our usual cost of admission for this classic game baby. However…if you’ve previously owned Castle Crashers on Xbox 360, you shall receive our Thank-You-For-Saving-Our-Lives-That-One-Time special price of FREE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 20th with current Xbox Live Gold membership.”

To clarify, if you buy Castle Crashers for the Xbox 360, at any point, you’ll be able to access the loyalty discounts that are in effect for Castle Crashers Remastered.

Live Streams

We’re going to have a few live streams in the next week and we hope you’ll tune in!

September 9th @ 4:30-5:00PM PDT : ID@Xbox on Twitch.tv/Xbox
We’ll be chatting with the ID@Xbox team about Castle Crashers Remastered and answering questions on their live stream!

September 15th @ 3:00-5:00PM PDT : Our live stream on Twitch.tv/thebehemoth
Want to know who’s the best at Back Off Barbarian in our studio? We want to know, too! Come join our 2 hour live stream as we battle amongst ourselves. We’ll also be giving out prizes and answering questions from the chatroom!

International Couch Co-Op Day

Remember, September 9th is our self proclaimed International Couch Co-Op Day! Castle Crashers Remastered and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime both feature couch co-op and you can get both starting September 9th!

EDIT: We’ve just been approved for a few more countries on Launch Day. Read the update here. Other countries to follow as ratings are approved.

Can you believe it’s been seven years since Castle Crashers debuted on Xbox 360? Those seven years of technology getting more and more powerful means we can harness that new technology! Yes! We shall harness this technology to make an even better version of our game! I say let’s get all Next-Gen up in here. Yes, no, maybe so?

September 9th, 2015 is the release date for Castle Crashers Remastered (CCR) on Xbox One! Yeah!! CCR being our new improved version of Castle Crashers, of course. We’ve been working on this update for the past year. Whew!

Here’s the skinny FAT you’ll find inside CCR:

-New multiplayer mini-game called Back Off Barbarian
-Five times larger texture sizes than the original!
-Twice the framerate of the original! (60 frames per second)
-Performance updates, gameplay tweaks
-Online multiplayer performance updates
-Ability to find games easier and quicker online

Please note that we plan to release CCR for North America on launch day with other countries to follow as ratings are approved. EDIT: We’ve just been approved for a few more countries. Read the update here.

Pricing

Castle Crashers Remastered on Xbox One will be $14.99 which is our usual cost of admission for this classic game baby. However…if you’ve previously owned Castle Crashers on Xbox 360, you shall receive our Thank-You-For-Saving-Our-Lives-That-One-Time special price of FREE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 20th with current Xbox Live Gold membership. Be sure to scoop it up early if you want to take advantage of that awesomeness. $0.00 for our game feels like a pretty good deal to me!!!!! (I’m not much of a businessman though!!!!)

The good news is starting September 21, 2015 we’ll still have a loyalty discount for Xbox 360 owners of Castle Crashers, which will bring CCR’s cost down to only $5.00 if you’ve owned it before. This special $5 price is available for any Xbox Live Gold members who are previous owners of Castle Crashers on Xbox 360.

Backwards Compatibility

Now that we’ve sorted pricing, let’s continue with the other informationals. In the nearish future, Castle Crashers will be playable on Xbox One at some point with Xbox One Backwards Compatibility. Yes that’s right, if you have the original Castle Crashers on Xbox 360 you can play it for free on your Xbox One once backwards compatibility launches broadly in Fall 2015 and the 360 title is released! Please note that the updates and advancements we’ve been making for CCR will not be in that version because it’s the OG–original game.

Same Day, Different Spacetime

There’s this great Gold Egg Project recipient we know of. If you fancy co-op, then you might like this fancy co-op game called Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by Asteroid Base. They’re also releasing on September 9th! I have always liked work created by their team members, like Matt Hammill’s previous project, Gesundheit.

Fun fact: You know who wrote this section of the post? Kim Karda–Wait did she? I’m not actually sure. Oh okay. We can print that right?

Signed, Dan

PS.
I would like to post-celebrate August informationals with this statue of Augustus.