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Tribeca Games Festival 2017 Recap

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Last Friday, our very own John Baez and Ian Moreno went to New York City for one whirlwind weekend! They were there to attend & exhibit at the first ever Tribeca Games Festival, which was an event done in partnership with Kill Screen, and they brought Pit People with them.

Here’s a quick look at the arcade area during set up:

Our Pit People station was bustling on Friday night and Saturday morning. The arcade hours ran from 6:30PM-10:00PM EST on Friday and 9:30AM-2:00PM EST on Saturday. Attendees had their choice of playing our Pit People demo on solo mode or 2-player co-op mode using our custom built arcade sticks:

These controllers go with us to trade shows and are a fan favorite. Speaking of fans, we had a chance to meet and talk with several Behemoth games fans who attended the event! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our station!


We wanted to take more photos but we were so focused on running the station and getting pulled into great conversations with people that we only got to snap a few.

If you have any Pit People photos from the Tribeca Games Festival, please send them to us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. We’d love to see what you saw! You can tag us in the photos on Twitter or Instagram, or share them with us on Facebook on a wall post or private message.

Thanks again to Kill Screen and Tribeca Games for having us in their Arcade in the inaugural Tribeca Games Festival!

Pit People Update 3 – Now on Xbox One and steam!

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“Emperor’s Orders” update for Pit People is now up on Xbox One and Steam! In this update we focus on special missions for you to complete, the addition of a mini-map in the world, and more rewarding jolly cooperation!

As always, the main Story (although not included in this update) is being developed alongside all these improvements we have been releasing.

To see the full changelist, click on the platform you play on:


Xbox One – Pit People Update 3 Changelist

Steam – Pit People Update 3 Changelist

Please give us your feedback on how you think these changes feel! The more the merrier!

 
Also out today is the XboxOne Party Chat Podcast, which features an interview with our very own Dan Paladin (co-founder of Behemoth & art director for all our games). You’ll be able to hear stories about how The Behemoth was founded, our creative process behind developing our games, and Dan even mentions the new features in Update 3!

Check out the podcast here:

XboxOne Party Chat Podcast – Episode 58 – Pit People With The Behemoth’s Dan Paladin

BattleBlock Theater – 6 million across XBLA & Steam leaderboards

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Our third game, BattleBlock Theater, was released a little under four years ago — first on Xbox 360 and then on Steam a year later. In 2015, it was added to the list of Xbox One Backward Compatibility titles as well. We like to consider it a delight and can only hope you agree!

This launch trailer was originally posted April 3, 2013! Time flies!

Earlier this week, we hit a couple big milestones on our BattleBlock Theater leaderboards: 4 million players on our XBLA leaderboards and 2 million players on our Steam leaderboards! Over 6,000,000 prisoners performers have made their debut on the Theater stage in just a few years!!!!

It’s hard to even imagine all those people at once, isn’t it? But we try anyway and we think it looks pretty epic. We are all so grateful to have had the game played so many times by so many people. Hatty Hattington seems to be making new friends every day while Purrham Furbottom’s Theater remains just as bustling as its former glory.

Thank you to everyone who played BattleBlock Theater! Thank you to everyone who built levels for everyone in the community to enjoy, and thank you to everyone who ever streamed, reviewed, criticized, listened to, looked at or talked about BattleBlock Theater.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, we will be putting all BattleBlock Theater merch items in our online store on sale next week! BBT items will be 15% OFF from March 27th thru April 2nd, 11:59PM PST.

Thanks again for everyone’s support all these years! We shall use this positive energy as we swing into the last big completion wind of our next game, Pit People (Available now on Xbox One and Steam via Early Access!).