Sneak peeks of PAX preparations and website relaunch!

We’ve been hard at work making our final preparations before we hop on a plane and head over to PAX East, but before we leave, we have some fun stuff to show you. Remember those fuzzy things from last week’s post? Here’s a look at a special piece of PAX exclusive merch:

Money from all Ushanka Bear Hat sales will go to charity.

Introducing our brand new Ushanka Bear Hat! Hand-made by our very own Anna the Red, this will be an exclusive, limited edition, numbered hat only available at PAX East! Guaranteed to make your head even more awesome – because bears are awesome, and you want to be awesome too, right? Right.

We also wanted to give you a quick look at the control panel artwork for our BattleBlock Theater arcade cabinets:

We’ll have this art on our arcade cabinets at PAX, so be sure to stop by The Behemoth booth #512 to see how they look. Of course, we’ll have some other surprises waiting at our booth too. I’ll just let your mind go mad with anticipation as you wonder what in the world I could be talking about.

 

Website Relaunch

Last, but not least, we’re relaunching our site this weekend! We’re excited to bring you a whole new look to the website and our community will be moved over to new forums.

The site will be down intermittently from Sunday until Monday PST. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to get word of the debut.

PAX PRIME ’11 Preparation & Updates!

The Behemoth team will be headed up to Seattle for our 6th appearance at PAX Prime rockin’ Booth #3003, and our BIGGEST booth to date. We’ll be showing the latest build of BattleBlock Theater and a surprise iOS game demo!

Look out for these PAX Exclusives!

Chonku-Chonku Machine

You like surprises, right? We brought an authentic Japanese toy vending machine to PAX, filled with collectible mini Castle Crashers Knight figurines!

Why do we call it that? It’s our onomatopoeia. To us, that’s the sound it makes when the toy dispenses. You can make up your own!

To complete your wacky experience, follow these steps:

1) Obtain 500 yen from our booth (the toy costs $6 U.S.)
2) Feed the Chonku-Chonku machine by inserting money
3) Turn the knob
4) Squeal in joy as a capsule with your new mini Knight drops in your hand!

Notes:
There are six mini figurines in this set.
It is a “blind-box” purchase, you may not get the color you want! But you can trade with other people, just like in BattleBlock Theater!

If you don’t want to use the machine, you can head up to our merch table and purchase one! (Blind-box rule still applies)

These Knights will fight for their dignity, their freedom and your love!

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