Crashing Some PSN Castles

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volleyball
With all of the BattleBlock Theater news lately we wanted to be sure to update you on our other title we’re working on, Castle Crashers for the PSN. Development has been going great and our awesome programming team has been quietly and diligently making the game run and look beautiful on the PlayStation 3. Although we haven’t narrowed it down to a specific month yet, we’re still on track for a release this year.

With that said we have a new volleyball minigame that’s headed for the PSN version of Castle. Here’s some of the finer points presented to you in beautiful bullet point technology.

* Play co-op or vs your buddies
* Local or online play
* Play with up to 3 other friends in multiplayer volleyball.
* Add AI teammates or opponents for up to 4 on 4 matches
* Play as any character you have unlocked
* Variable stats based on character
* Use magic attacks to place 8 new magic status effects on the ball
* Cool new serving and spiking moves
* Play 1, 3 or 5 matches against your opponents
* Leaderboards to track the best in the land

We’ll try to get some screenshots going in the next few weeks or so, but it might get pushed back a little as we’re headed to Tokyo and Boston at the end of March. Speaking of which, if you didn’t already know we’ll be attending both the Tokyo Anime Fair and PAX East around the end of March. So if you’re in Tokyo or Boston come on by and say hello to us. It’s the first time we’ve done two shows on the same weekend so we’re very excited about that. Both BattleBlock Theater and Castle Crashers will be in attendance at both shows. New year, new shows, new demos. 2010 is the year of The Behemoth.

-Emil-

BattleBlock Theater – The “Official” Trailer

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A story about friendship, betrayal, and a whole truck load of cats.

Having shipwrecked on a mysterious island you find yourself both betrayed by your best friend Hatty and captured by the locals. All of this is happening while being forced into deadly performances. This however, is just the start of your problems.

BattleBlock Theater is our upcoming third title for the Xbox Live Arcade. Website to follow in the next few days and as we inch closer to the release of the title we’ll be unfolding more of the story online.

Enjoy.

-Emil-

$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