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Castle Crashers Remastered Out Now on Xbox One!

October 17, 2023September 9, 2015 by megan

Castle Crashers Remastered has launched in select countries on Xbox One via the ID@Xbox self-publishing program! Get it today for $14.99 or for FREE as a special, limited promotion if you’re a loyal Castle Crashers Xbox 360 player. You’ll just need an active Xbox Live Gold membership, the same gamer profile that owns Castle Crashers on Xbox 360, and get this game by September 20, 2015!

Starting September 21st, if you are an Xbox 360 owner of Castle Crashers, we’re offering a special loyalty discount which will bring CCR’s cost down to only $5.00.

And don’t forget that today is also the release day for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime! Both these games have couch co-op, so we’re self proclaiming today to be International Couch Co-Op Day!

Mini-Game & Unlockables

So what do you get in Castle Crashers Remastered? Our 2D hack n’ slash game has been remastered to 60 frames per second, five times larger texture sizes, and online multiplayer updates that will allow you to find games easier and quicker online compared to the Castle Crashers of the past (on Xbox 360). We’ve also added a new mini game called “Back Off Barbarian!” But wait there’s even more! In addition to all of the classic characters & animal orbs you’ve come to love, all of the following special characters and animal orbs can also be unlocked in the game for free:

Special Characters:
King, Open Faced Gray Knight, Necromancer, Cult Minion, Blacksmith, Pink Knight, Alien Hominid, Hatty Hattington

Special Animal Orbs:
Pelter, Dragonhead, Golden Whale

If you’ve played Castle Crashers on Xbox 360, you can transfer your save data to keep all of the characters & animal orbs you already unlocked. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for an explanation on how to transfer your save data!

Launch Week Festivities

Castle Crashers Merchandise Sale
As an added bonus for you Castle Crashers fans out there, we’re holding a 15% OFF Sale for all Castle Crashers items in our online merchandise store! Get all Castle Crashers goodies from store.thebehemoth.com at 15% OFF until September 16th.

Get some awesome plushies or tees for you and your loved ones!

Live Streams
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!

Reddit AMA
September 10th @ 9:00AM PDT
Join us on the interwebs for our Reddit AMA where you can ask us anything! We’ll post a link up on our Facebook page and Twitter as soon as it’s live!

Save Data Transfer

Alright, so you’ve made it to the end of this post for the lesson of a lifetime. We mean that you can keep your lifetime of Castle Crashers Xbox 360 progress in Castle Crashers Remastered on Xbox One!

More countries for Castle Crashers Remastered

September 8, 2015 by megan

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!

Castle Crashers Remastered Release Date MEGA POST

September 4, 2015 by danp

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.