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$30,000 and counting for Haiti Challenge!!

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So you may have heard.. since January 20th we’ve been raising money for Haiti relief efforts by donating 200% of proceeds from ALL downloadable content (DLC) sales for Castle Crashers or Alien Hominid.  We’ve just received some numbers regarding the donation that we would like to share with you!

you all = heroes

Between Jan 20-24th through your DLC purchases — you raised $15,585.65!!!  We are matching that, for a donation of $31,171.29!!! This is truly amazing. You amaze us.

Let’s amaze each other. With your help, we can get to a total donation of at least $50,000. We already announced continuing the fundraiser through today – but we’ll keep this going as long as it takes to reach 50K for Haiti Relief. Come on world!  Let’s do this.

For reference, here is all our DLC available:

Alien Hominid HD DLC available:
Alien Hominid HD – Challenge Pack (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Classic Pack 1 (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Classic Pack 2 (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Euro Pack (150 Microsoft Points)
Alien Hominid HD – PDA Hot New Levels (150 Microsoft Point)
also Picture Packs (100 Microsoft Points)

Castle Crashers DLC available:
Castle Crashers – Necromantic Pack (160 Microsoft Points)
Castle Crashers – King Pack (160 Microsoft Points)
also Picture Packs (80 to 100 Microsoft Points)
and Premium Theme pack (250 Microsoft Points)

-the behemoth

Castle Crashing the Holidays

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holidaychickenAs we near yet another end the end of another year here at The Behemoth, we look back. We look back on the endless stream of frantic and fun tradeshows (five of them!) and the beginning of exciting new projects like our 3rd Game and Castle Crashers for PS3.

16 months now since our baby Castle Crashers first blinked at the wide world, and it is still the top rated game on all of XBLA, as rated by Xbox 360 gamers.  That means a lot to us because it isn’t just a publication, it is voting from the gamers themselves. That means that you guys like what we made and we liked you even before you liked us ANYWAY, so we couldn’t like you even more since we already liked you at maximum capacity.

By our ACTUAL count, Castle Crashers has saved 27 marriages (while destroying 1, sorry about that), created 346 father/daughter bonding experiences, been tattooed on 39 bodies, and resulted in exactly 520,687,903 hours of entertainment  for people all over the planet.  That’s pretty amazing. If you were to ask me what’s amazing I would have included that in my response.

I can tell you that you can give Castle Crashers to someone as a gift. And here are two ways to do it:

1) If you happen to live in the USA you can click here, to gift the game via Amazon (or to add it to your Amazon wishlist!)

2) Or, if you prefer to have a physical something to wrap up in a box with a pretty bow, you can go to The Behemoth’s online store and get a special card with the game code (we ship anywhere). As an added bonus, this comes with a free limited-edition collectible pewter medallion. There were only 1000 made, and only a few hundred left! You can gift the Game and the Medallion, or keep the medallion for yourself!

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And of course, for your special someone who is already a fan of Castle Crashers, don’t forget to check our all the cool Castle Crashers Shwag!

Here’s wishing you a joyous holiday, and thanks again for all your support this year! …and don’t worry, we have a few more surprises in store for you before the year is out.  😉

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The Behemoth

24 hour Chicken Race Tomorrow!

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Ok, so actually its a car race. But not your average car race. It is the 24 Hours of LeMons: The Lamest Day 2009 car race wherein all of the cars  must be acquired and prepared for a maximum of $500.  Winner gets $1500- in nickels, and there is a chance your car can be summarily destroyed by public vote at any time.  If you are going to be in Garrettsville, OH Saturday or Sunday (Oct 3 and 4th), you should definitely go check this race out! Go here for Tickets and race information!

Our friends over at 2slowracing have designed and built a giant racing chicken which will hurtle around the track at ridiculous speeds for 24 hours until it wins the day for overly large poultry everywhere, or explodes in a fiery wreck of fried chicken bits.  The design was submitted by forum member Ajaykarat and it is awesome:

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The guys did an amazing job translating this ambitious concept to their hearty 1987 BMW E30, and are almost done putting the final touches on it (yes, those are racing goggles on the chicken!):

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There are a bunch more pictures of the design and construction here. So once again, go root for the feathery beast if you are in the area, or even if you aren’t. Good luck tomorrow guys, please do not die!

<3

kelly