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Thursday • May 1 • 2025
Introduction
Hi! Hello! It’s been too long! How ya been?
The Behemoth studio is currently full of chickens revving their engines, doing jumping jacks, ready to soar over to Boston and make the magic happen for attendees of PAX East 2025! Tradeshows are one of our most favorite-est things when it comes to Making Games, because we get to bring our games to life on our homemade arcade cabinets with YOU! After having gone to many shows over many years, this indie studio (The Behemoth, that’s us) is still committed to hauling our actual blood, sweat, and tears to you across the country through our Arcade Cabinets* and daily competitions surrounding them!
*No blood, sweat, or tears** are on the arcade cabinet
**There may be tears on the Alien Hominid HD cabinet
“But what if I’m at home, and my home isn’t near PAX East, and I’m a human, not a chicken, and I can’t flap my wings to get to PAX East?”
– You reading this
Have no fear! You have a rare breed of chicken, a Dedicated Live Blog Expert Chicken here ready to supply you with real time information, updates, photographs and chicken facts!
Every single day of PAX East (May 8 through May 11) during show hours (10AM EST to 6PM EST) we’ll have new deets, photos, MOVING PHOTOS (VIDEOS), behind the scenes intel–but most importantly, A WHOLE LOTTA FUN on this live blog 🙂
We ALL need to let our feathers loose and have some fun once in a while, and that includes you reading this at home–yes, YOU! You’re the whole reason we’re going to also host a giveaway for our readers at home, just like the one we’re hosting in-person at PAX East!
So make sure you come back here after PAX East kicks off for more information and most importantly, LIVE UPDATES! It’s almost as if you’re really there.
Thursday • May 8 • 2025
Thursday • May 8 • 7:30 AM
Behemoth Staff have begun to arrive on site to the booth!
Thursday • May 8 • 8:45 AM
Welcome to the start of PAX East 2025! Held in Boston, MA at the Boston Convention & Exhibition center, we’ve got you covered over all four days of the show with coverage straight from our booth!
With that being said, these Behemoth birdies are stretching their wings and rubbing their eyes, because we’re still adjusting to East Coast time. But we’re so excited to be here, talking about our games with you, hosting competitions on our handmade arcade cabinets, and bringing the joy of Behemoth merch to you!
Check out our neat post-cards filled with all the info you could ever need about our booth!
We’re always looking for ways to include more of our players in things that we do, and this year, we are hosting an online giveaway for our would-be PAX Booth attendees! The prizes for both giveaways are the same: a full set of FIVE (5) Castle Crashers Knight Plushies!
All you have to do is sign up for our newsletter! If you’re at the show, a flashy and friendly sign will point you in the right direction. If you’re online, this chicken will point you in the right direction! Click the giant button right below that says ‘Enter our plushie giveaway!’ and you’ll be all set. It’s blue. You can’t miss it.
Edited Sunday May 11 at 4PM EST: Both our at-home AND at-show giveaways are OFFICIALLY OVER! Winners of our online giveaway will be contacted post-PAX!
We have a LINE forming for our MERCH! We have donut boxes, we have Necromancer Tiki Mugs, we have a PAX Exclusive tee, and PINNY PINS! Just to name a few.
A dolphin washes up along the shores of Painter Boss Paradise (fits the color theme!) IS THIS YOUR DOLPHIN?
10:37 AM
We also have a line forming for our newsletter signup! Somebody spilled the beans about there being a KNIGHT PLUSHIE GIVEAWAY for newsletter signups! Oh. That was me.
“I love how colorful this booth is!” – Random (kind) attendee passing by (THANK YOU)
10:46 AM
We have spotted our first cosplay! 
We have a line forming at our BEHEMOTH station for our BEHEMOTH Challenge Mode at 12pm! BEHEMOTH…a game by The Behemoth.
We also spotted our favorite Painter Boss Paradise character, Herbert, brought to life by a PAX attendee on our new Castle Crashers arcade cabinet. Look at him go!
And we are OFF, kicking off the first competition of PAX East 2025 with The Behemoth’s BEHEMOTH Challenge! Save the most babies in BEHEMOTH’s one-hit challenge mode, and you just might be walking out of the booth with a shiny grand prize!
Thursday • May 8 • 1:05 PM
We had a great turnout for our FIRST EVER BEHEMOTH Competition! Congratulations to our CHAMPION!
It’s almost time to get ready for our next competition! A tried and true classic and favorite amongst our tradeshow competitors, Back Off Barbarian is up next at 3:00 PM!
Thursday • May 8 • 3:06 PM
Our beloved Back Off Barbarian High Score Challenge is underway! Who will outlast every other knight? Which character will the winner pick? ARE THE BARBARIANS BACKING OFF? All questions that will be answered at the end of the hour!
Thursday • May 8 • 4:07 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, everyone of all ages, we have a new Back Off Barbarian Champion for PAX East 2025! They topped the leaderboards with a mega-impressive time of 2 minutes, 14 seconds, and 7 hundredths of a second! WE TAKE TIME MEASUREMENT SERIOUSLY.
The first winner of our PAX Giveaway has been chosen and contacted! Make your way back to The Behemoth Booth #18055 and look for the Golden Whale to claim your treasure of a complete set of Castle Crashers Knight Plushies! WHAAAAA?!
That is a WRAP on the first day of PAX East 2025! We’re so happy to be back in Boston doing what we love the most — talking about games, meeting the people who play our games, and having an overall swell time. Thank you to everybody who took the time out of their show to stop by our humble indie booth, and we hope to see more of you tomorrow!
Time for some winner dinner for these chickens!
Friday • May 9 • 2025
It’s the dawn of the second day and the Behemoth chickens have left their temporary Boston coops to head to brilliant booth 18055, where they’ll spend the rest day of the day free ranging among the tradeshow floor–hosting competitions, making magic happen. It’s good to be a Behemoth chicken.
On our docket today is a BattleBlock Theater Ball Game Tournament at 3PM! Signups will be taken from 10AM to 1PM, so make sure you get your name down because nobody likes a crybaby, eh? And get ready to get dunked on! Or be the dunkee. That, my friend, depends on your skillz.
Eight minutes into the day and Tom is already signing a Castle Crashers Switch case! Oh, you!
Mega64 Rocco sighting! HIGH SCORE ON BEHEMOTH??? Someone come claim it!
We have so much beloved merch at our booth, waiting to go home with you! From our exclusive donut boxes of delights, featuring Castle Crashers Physical for Nintendo Switch, a Blood Bear or Necromancer plushie (your choice!), sticker sheets, a lanyard, and some other fun goodies!
Our purrrrhaps you would be interested in our beloved Herbert & Charles Painter Boss Paradise tee shirt?
Most items will end up coming to our online merch store once it reopens post-PAX, so keep your pretty eyes peeled!
Casual Red Knight visited our booth! They were Very Cool.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL. The BattleBlock Theater 2v2 Ball Game Tournament sign-up list is ALMOST FULL. The Theater is almost at capacity! Please keep your arms and legs in the vehicle for the duration of the ride. Oh, wrong warning!
Friday • May 9 • 11:05 AM
The Tournament is FULL! Thank you to everyone who signed up and filled the event within an HOUR!
We are taking alternate prisoners performers, if you wanted to mosey on by the booth still!
Images you can hear:
Not pictured: two wonderful cosplayers of Steve and “The Garbage Man” while the villagers played Lava Chicken on their speaker. What a magical PAX this is turning out to be.
Pink Knight tattoo spotted!
Some friendly blood bears have appeared in Booth 18055! Legend tells they won these hats many shows ago and come back each year wearing them!
We have MUCHO MERCH for you, your friends, your friend’s friends, and your dog! Check out some of our offerings below, now available in HD!
It’s not every day that you get greeted by your own game’s opening sequence on a…TV Head?!
This was so cool to see! Thanks for stopping by our booth and sharing this with us, Fony.TV.Guy!
Glep stopped by to say hi and test out Painter Boss Paradise!
And our BattleBlock Theater 2v2 Ball Game Tournament Extravaganza has COMMENCED!
Say that five times fast.
Our BattleBlock Theater 2v2 Ball Game Tournament has drawn to a triumphant close!In first place, the team “Hatty’s Prison”! What a delightfully pleasant name!
In second place is “Hoopes Paradise”! They tried so hard, and got so far (three rounds!) and in the end, it mattered a bit, because they got our runner up prize! Congratulations to these two teams, and thanks for visiting our booth and dunking on each other in front of a crowd for our entertainment! Y’all are the reason why keep doing what we do.
That’s a wrap on DAY TWO of PAX East 2025! Thank you to everyone who stopped by today, and DON’T FORGET about our Castle Crashers 1v1v1v1 Arena Tournament tomorrow!
Oh, and a Meet & Greet with none other than Tom Fulp at 2PM!
Saturday • May 10 • 2025
BIIIIIIG stretch for a big behemoth bird. Wakey wakey, it’s time for PAX Day 3!
We’ve got a lot of fun in store today!
10 AM – 1PM: Sign-ups accepted for our Castle Crashers 1v1v1v1 Arena Tournament!
2 PM – 3 PM: THE TOM FULP MEETUP
3 PM – 4 PM: The Castle Crashers 1v1v1v1 Arena Tournament
We’re over in Booth #18055, with the gigantic rotating baby blue sign featuring all of our iconic Behemoth characters, like that one square shaped fellow with the top hat!
Saturday • May 10 • 10:24 AM
SIGN-UPS FOR THE CASTLE CRASHERS TOURNAMENT HAVE BEGUN!And we were graced with the presence of a MINI HATTY who appeared in our booth! Naturally, the gold whale gravitated towards him.
We have an important merch stock update: Our Painter Boss PAX Exclusive Tee has SOLD OUT in Medium, Large, and 2XL! Please make your way over to Booth 18055 if you would like to grab one of these bad boys before the show is over or your size is sold out!
Signups are now full for the Castle Crashers tournament, WOW. Thanks to everyone who raced over to fill up the event!
ETA 11:31 AM: We are now full on standby signups! Thank you so much! While we were finishing accepting sign-ups, we were gifted this masterpiece of a comic a young fan made for us ahead of the show 😭 It means so much to us to get fan creations like this. Start creating and never stop creating, it keeps yer mind fresh and then you have cool stuff that you’ve made at the end!
It’s him, it’s the guy, it’s Tom Fulp!
Love to see a line at the Painter Boss Paradise machine! We’re so excited to share the DLC with everyone and are stoked to see the first reactions at the show!
Standby signups for the Castle Crashers Tournament at 3pm are also officially FULL!
IT’S HATTY!
Our latest game, BEHEMOTH, recently got its arcade cabinet makeover! Part of the reason we created this game was to have another fun arcade cabinet at the shows we travel to! At The Behemoth, we like creating fun things, both digitally and IRL! We broke the arcade cabinet in by having a couple of competitions to see who could go the furthest in our new One-Hit Challenge Mode!
Players control the movement of their chicken with the joystick on the left, and flap their wings to gain altitude by pressing down on our giant wing button! Handmade by John Behemoth himself and our trusted band of Handy Behemoth Chickens!
These are the current scores on our BEHEMOTH arcade cabinet! Can you beat them?! PROVE IT! Come by Booth 18055 and show us what you’re made of!
The Tom Fulp Meet N Greet has started a little EARLY!
The Final Chicken of PAX East 2025 waits for its destined owner….could it be you?
Setup has begun for our Castle Crashers tournament at 3:00 PM!
Still getting ready for the tournament whilst Tom Fulp is still Meeting and Greeting!
The Tom Fulp Meet ‘n’ Greet is officially finished! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to Meet and Greet one of our fearless co-founders!
We have our first EVER winner of a Castle Crashers: Painter Boss Paradise 1v1v1v1 Arena Tournament! Congratulations Dominic, Painter of Bosses, PAX East 2025 Reigning Champion! D
Dominic then went on to defeat THE boss himself, Tom Fulp! Someone get this guy a gold skull.
Edited Sunday May 11 at 4PM EST: Our at-home giveaway is now closed and our Steam Sale is now over! Thank you to everyone who signed up!
John Behemoth himself, one of our other pioneering co-founders, is doing an interview!
John Behemoth is our current Golden Whale Beholder. What does that mean? Visit us and find out! (He’s holding the Golden Whale.)
The third day has commenced! This is where the panic starts to set in. It’s over halfway over! How are we going to go back to work after all this fun?! Do chickens have favorite colors? Answers to some of these questions and maybe not more tomorrow, Sunday! The last day of PAX! *sobs*
Sunday • May 11 • 2025
It’s the dawn of the final day! We’re ready for you, PAX!
Today we have Mike “The Bearded Chicken” Welsh battling against any willing foes on THE original Behemoth game, Alien Hominid HD! Alien Hominid HD was our first game baby that led to the creation of the company. A notoriously difficult title, Alien Hominid HD has rooted itself firmly as a classic side-scrolling shoot ’em up. (It’s this chicken’s favorite Behemoth title, personally!) Come battle in “Beat a Dev Chicken at Alien Hominid HD” to see if you’re worth your salt!
In case you missed it: Alien Hominid HD and Alien Hominid Invasion, our recent 4-player co-op re-imagining of the original game, will be launching on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 VERY SOON!
WOW! All of our available slots to play against Mike “The Bearded Chicken” Welsh have filled up within 17 minutes of opening signups! That was crazy! We’re still accepting standby signups!
The new BEHEMOTH arcade cabinet has proven a hit at PAX East with it’s massive wing flap controller! Really cool design by John Behemoth on this one! Did you know we hand make all of our arcade cabinets ourselves?
Also, signups for battling Mike “The Bearded Chicken” Welsh are now OFFICIALLY COMPLETELY, IRREVOCABLY FULL! Come by Booth 18055 at 3PM to see the madness and see Mike in a chicken suit!
This awesome Dead Space cosplay graced us with our presence at our booth!
Everybody needs a player two! The Final Day of PAX East is upon us, and we’re so thankful to every person who’s visited us, played our games, and shared valuable feedback! We’re so excited to bring our upcoming updates to you all!
— The Behemoth (@thebehemoth.com) May 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Dan, our at-show newsletter winner for Saturday, showed back up to claim his horde of soft and squishable knights! Out at-home giveaway winners will be picked and contacted after we touch back down in sunny San Diego, post-PAX!
The queue has begun for the encore round of The Behemoth’s BEHEMOTH Challenge Mode Competition! We have many challengers lined up at Booth 18055 to see just how many babies they can save in our One-Hit Challenge Mode!
BEHEMOTH is our latest game that released on October 31st, 2024! Check it out on Steam below:
The Fulps have left the building! I repeat: The Fulp Chickens have flown the coop!
Here’s some Behemoth Roadmap updates from The Behemoth Arcade!
We’ve been working hard on multiple updates to our games at once! Here’s some news from The Behemoth Arcade, giving you the scoop straight from the coop!
— The Behemoth (@thebehemoth.com) May 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Some lovely fans came back to our booth to ask us (US! Can you believe it?!) to sign their vinyl of Patric Catani’s ‘Video Game Music’! Sold in our merch store (once it reopens post-PAX), this bad boy can contain so many tracks that Patric Catani did for BattleBlock Theater (and Blox in Space!)Thank you for liking us enough to want our autographs <3
We also spotted someone wearing a cool shirt! Where did he get it? How many aliens can it contain? Are there matching shorts and hats to go along with this??? (Yes there is!) We sell a full Alien Horde getup in our magical merch store, so check back post-PAX if you would like to be dressed to the nine-billions!
Sunday • May 11 • 2:40 PM
And we’re getting ready for our 3PM “Beat a Dev Chicken” competition! Players will be up against Mike “The Bearded Chicken” Welsh in the video game he has mastered, Alien Hominid HD! Mike remains undefeated since we started this competition at PAX East last year, but will a new challenger approach? Will an alien rise to the occasion and dethrone our bearded chicken dev?!
Here you can see two Behemoth Chickens in their natural habitat, The Behemoth Booth, modifying our BEHEMOTH cabinet to also display Alien Hominid HD. This way, Mike and his Formidable Foe he goes up against will each have their own cabinet! Fun fact: as you can see, we only have one Alien Hominid HD cabinet. The first time we attempted this competition format, we took the video display that you see to the right of the Alien Hominid HD cabinet, and swung it around. Mike then played on the “Player 2” controls on the cabinet whilst looking WAY away from the controls.
Now, Mike will still be looking at a different screen, but will be a whole lot closer!
Here we see Mike in his natural habitat, ruminating over the best alien acrobatics he can think of (SPAM THE SHOOT BUTTON!!!) He’s ready to run circles around the competition, look at those shoes!
Our “Beat a Dev Chicken” competition is underway!
That’s a wrap on our final competition of PAX East 2025! Thank you so much to everybody who came out and went up against Mike…we know this is no easy task, but you showed up and tried anyway! May your courage be forever represented by your Alien Hominid YouTooz and all the wonderful memories you have getting defeated by a developer at their own game!
Mike retains his crown for the third consecutive show!
How does Behemoth dev Mike “The Bearded Chicken” Welsh spend his free time? Legend has it he’s in an arcade wearing a big chicken suit, encouraging gamers to get good at Alien Hominid HD speedruns, and handing them prizes to boost morale… Mike is officially undefeated for THREE SHOWS IN A ROW!
— The Behemoth (@thebehemoth.com) May 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
There is only twenty-three minutes of PAX East 2025 remaining!
Thank you for a wonderful PAX East ♥️
And that’s a wrap on another amazing PAX East! As always, thank you so much to all the fans who visited us at The Behemoth arcade. Meeting you fuels us to keep making fun games, and we truly couldn’t do it without you! See you next time! 🐔♥️
— The Behemoth (@thebehemoth.com) May 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We hope you enjoyed following along with us throughout our PAX East 2025 experience! Thank you to every single person who walked through our booth, whether it was just to get somewhere quicker, to experience our plush carpet, to play our games, chat with us, check out our merch to support our continued development…each and every one of you is the reason we are still able to do what we love: make games, experiences, and have fun while doing so.
And thus concludes our PAX East 2025 live blog. It will transition into a simple ‘blog’…no longer ‘live’ in our code, but live in our hearts.
Sayonara, Boston! Take me back to San Diego. Chicken warp drive, initate!