Kotaku: Castle Crashers

The Pink Knight Comes to Life in Castle Crashers

Owen Good — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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The Pink Knight was an urban myth cooked up by Castle Crashers' Xbox Live community. No such dude existed. But he does now, as The Behemoth offers him for free and promises to make up to a $50,000 donation to a breast cancer prevention and awareness organization. More »

Five Awesome XBLA Games, One Great Price

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:20:00 EDT

There's quite the sale going on over on Xbox Live Arcade at the moment. Five of the very best games around - Limbo, Shadow Complex, Castle Crashers, Trials HD and Monday Night Combat - are going for half price. Normally, they're 1200 MSP. For today, April 15, they're only 600 MSP. More »

These Are 2010's Best PlayStation Network Games

Mike Fahey — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:20:00 EST

Last month Sony asked PlayStation 3 owners to vote for the best PlayStation Network Games of 2010 across four different categories. Only two of the winners directly involved zombies. More »

Due To Popular Demand Castle Crashers Adds Pink Knight

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:00:00 EST

Because you demanded it, medieval beat 'em up Castle Crashers is getting a new brawler armed with a lollipop and equipped with pink armor. The best part? The new Pink Knight is for a good cause. More »

Two Million Xbox 360 Gamers Have Played Castle Crashers

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:30:00 EST

Independent developer The Behemoth got a rather lovely present on Christmas Day, when the Xbox Live Arcade version of Castle Crashers surpassed two million players. How will they celebrate? With an Xbox made of gold. More »

Chicken For Thanksgiving, Courtesy of Castle Crashers

Owen Good — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:00:00 EST

The mascot of The Behemoth, the studio behind the PS3 and Xbox 360 downloadable hit Castle Crashers, is a giant chicken. Fittingly, it's pledging gifts of livestock to needy families in developing countries through the end of November. More »

Japanese PlayStation Network Shows Japan What's Great From Abroad

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EST

Sony knows it, I know it, you know it. Many of the best PSN games are made by Western developers. More »

Castle Crashers Dated for PS3

Owen Good — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:46:49 EDT

Almost two years to the day after it arrived on the Xbox 360, Castle Crashers will hit the PlayStation 3. The game's developer today said it will release on the PlayStation Store on Aug. 31. The price is $15. More »

Castle Crashers Crashing PAX With A Special Surprise

Mike Fahey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:30:00 EDT

The Behemoth may be busy pushing Castle Crashers through Sony's approval process and working on BattleBlock Theater, but that doesn't mean they don't have time to work on a very special Castle Crashers treat for fans attending PAX this year. More »

It's Not the Critic Who Counts, but the Crasher in the Arena

Owen Good — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:20:00 EDT

Hinted at a week ago, the developers of Castle Crashers for the PS3 have more information on the new four-player Arena Mode exclusive to this version of the game. It accomodates 2-on-2, 1-on-3, or good old free-for-all matches. More »

How Xtreme Is Castle Crashers' New Volleyball Mode?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:40:00 EDT

This xtreme!!! It may not induce a thirst for tossing back a Mountain Dew or inspire us to shred something, but the PlayStation Network release of Castle Crashers is not tame looking by any means. More »

The Behemoth: The Timeline

Stephen Totilo — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:30:00 EDT

As seen at PAX, a timeline of the work of the people behind Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers — with an important hint about the future. More »

Castle Crashers Adds Xtreme Volleyball Action To PSN Port

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:40:00 EST

Gosh! It's been a while since we've heard about the PlayStation Network port of The Behemoth's Castle Crashers. The game is still coming (whew!), reassures the game's developer, making that reassurance sweeter with the addition of volleyball mini-games(!!!). More »

It's A Good Day To Buy Castle Crashers

Mike Fahey — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:40:00 EST

Microsoft delivers a late Christmas present to Xbox 360 owners, discounting Castle Crashers by more than 50% for one day only. More »

Castle Crashers DLC Arrives at Midnight

Owen Good — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Last night The Behemoth announced that the Necromantic DLC for Castle Crashers - said to be coming "soon" - is coming out, like, now. At midnight ~~U.S. Pacific time~~ it's available for 160 Microsoft points. More »

Chainsaw Finally Coming to Castle Crashers

Owen Good — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EDT

The Behemoth confirmed yesterday that the long-awaited Chainsaw weapon will be part of an upcoming, yet undated, DLC. It's "Necomantic," boogie-woogie-woogie. More »

The Behemoth's "Game 3" Revealed, Played At Comic-Con

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EDT

The creators of Castle Crashers brought their latest game, right now known as Game 3, to Comic-Con, an Xbox Live Arcade title heavy on the "TBA." Platforms, release date, final game name and just about everything is still "TBA." More »

Castle Crashers Coming To PS3

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Castle Crashers is just about the best thing to happen to Xbox Live Arcade. And soon, it'll be just about the best thing to happen to the PlayStation Network as well. More »

At Least One Million People Have Played Castle Crashers

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:30:00 EDT

It's the little Xbox Live Arcade game that could. Despite a rocky launch, The Behemoth's delightful brawler Castle Crashers has just seen its millionth player log a score on the game's leaderboard. More »

900,000 Castle Crashers And Counting

Mike Fahey — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:20:00 EDT

As of this weekend more than 900,000 players have crashed castles in The Behemoth's Xbox Live Arcade title Castle Crashers. Can you guess when they'll hit the one million mark? More »

Castle Crashers Is The Xbox Live Game Of The Year

Mike Fahey — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:20:00 EDT

Microsoft has announced the winners of the 2008 Xbox Live Arcade Awards, with The Behemoth's Castle Crashers walking away with Game of the Year. More »

A Glimpse At The New Game From Castle Crashers Dev

Brian Crecente — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:24:01 EDT

The Behemoth will be unveiling their new game on March 18, the developers said today. More »

Castle Crashers: The Lucha Libre Connection

AJ Glasser — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:30:00 EST

Jerry Frissen's Lucha Libre comic series is already a line of collector's toys by Muttpop; but toymaker Bob Silva says it was almost a multiplayer game made by The Behemoth. More »

The Behemoth Prepping Follow Up To Castle Crashers

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:20:26 EST

The creators of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers have not given up on the video game development business. In fact, they're already prototyping a new title! Way to soldier on, The Behemoth. More »

The Maw Opens On XBLA Next Week, Castle Crashers DLC Tides Us Over

Mike Fahey — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:40:00 EST

After a couple weeks of casual releases, Xbox Live Arcade heats up this month with this week's release of the Castle Crashers: King Pack followed immediately by Twisted Pixel's The Maw next week. More »

Castle Crashers with Major Nelson

Brian Crecente — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:00:00 EST

Tune in to hear Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb talk about the year in Xbox 360, his confidence of Xbox Live stability during this year's new adopter holiday crunch and the bet I more than likely lost. More »

A Very Special Kotaku Holiday Podcast

Brian Crecente — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:01:12 EST

Forgive us if we went a little overboard, or maybe underboard, with this first Holiday podcast. It started out with us doing an in-game interview and then sort of took on a life of its own. More »

Castle Crashers FINALLY Gets Patched

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:20:00 EST

It's been a long time coming, but notoriously fun, notoriously buggy XBLA hit Castle Crashers is finally going to receive a title update. The official word comes outta the forums of developer The Behemoth. More »

Castle Crashers Patch Still Coming, Still Coming

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:00:25 EST

Remember back in September when The Behemoth calmed our fears about Castle Crashers' shaky online multiplayer, noting that "we’re on our way to getting this title update out"? Yeah, whatever happened to that, Behemoth? More »

Custom Castle Crashers You Will Never Own

Stuart Houghton — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT

Teddy Troops are typical examples of that strain of kidult 'collectible' not-really-a-toy that they sell in those shops that also sell skateboarding clothes to people who don't own boards, and never will. More »

Summer Of Arcade Massive Success

Mike Fahey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:20:00 EDT

So Microsoft's Xbox 360 Summer of Arcade promotion has come and gone, a five-week blitz of the best that Xbox Live Arcade has to offer, all part of a commitment made by the company at E3 to shift their focus more towards quality rather than quantity. According to a media alert issued today by Microsoft, the push was a massive success, with a 58% increase in Xbox Live members purchasing games over the course of the month, shattering the monthly revenue high for XBLA by 67%. More »

Castle Crashers: 250,000 Players Served (Plus Patch Info)

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:00 EDT

Here's a feel-good story for the day. Castle Crashers has now found its way into 250,000 homes, an incredible number considering the scope of the project and the fact it's still a litle broken. Just goes to show what fun times can do for a game. Now that the good news is out of the way, time to move on to the obligatory "when's it being patched" info. Lead artist Dan Paladin has told Gamasutra that while there's still no expected release date for an online patch, the team are working through Microsoft's certification process, and that they "really appreciate everyone's patience and support". More »

Download The Castle Crashers Soundtrack For Free

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:20:00 EDT

While you sit around waiting for the Castle Crashers multiplayer to start working, why not take the time to grab the game's soundtrack which has been uploaded to Newground.com in MP3 format. The tracks are released under a Creative Commons license that allows you to share or remix them as long as you give proper attribution and you don't try to use it for commercial purposes. As well as listening to the tracks via the site, you can also download them directly using the little floppy disk icon next to the licensing info. Joyous and free Castle Crashers tunes [Xbox 360 Fanboy] More »

Castle Crashers Shill For Trader Joe's

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:40:33 EDT

Hot from the Not News Department of the Kotaku press room comes word that Castle Crashers is going mainstream. That is, if you consider being prominently displayed in endcap ads at crunchy grocery chain Trader Joe's mainstream. Reader Jose wrote in to say he spotted the stars of The Behemoth's XBLA hack and slasher shilling ridge-cut potato chips and Virgil's root beer. Clearly, this kind of endorsement speaks to the gaming/snacking crowd that shuns high fructose corn syrup. More »

Castle Crashers Getting New Characters, New Weapons

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:30:00 EDT

Right now, The Behemoth are busy fixing the online problems plaguing the fantastic Castle Crashers. Once they're done with that, they'll move on. Move on to giving us all new stuff to play with! Writing on their company blog, they've revealed that at least two new playable characters - the King and the Necromancer - will be made available as DLC, as will at least one new weapon, the chainsaw. More »

Castle Crashers Title Update Is Coming, It's Coming

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:30:00 EDT

Castle Crashers is great. So much fun. Sadly that fun is often tempered by serious technical glitches in the game, from wonky online connectivity to stuff like erasing your entire game progress. It's annoying, yes, but The Behemoth promise (cross their hearts!) that a fix is on its way. More »

Castle Crashers Review: Hack & Slash & Fun

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

The Behemoth's last game - Alien Hominid - wasn't fun. Looked good, but wasn't fun. It was the gaming equivalent of taking your balls, resting them on a table, picking up a hammer then smashing them over and over and over until you sobbed yourself unconscious. The Behemoth's latest game – Castle Crashers – shares many of Alien Hominid's traits. It's lovingly drawn in 2D, it scrolls sideways, you have to kill everything in sight. So, should you be reaching for the hammer again? More »

Castle Crashers Gives Alien Hominid A Leg Up

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:20:00 EDT

Alien Hominid came out aaaages ago on Xbox Live Arcade. Did OK for itself, but really, as good as it looked it was just way too hard. So it promptly faded away. But this week, it's back! With The Behemoth's Castle Crashers coasting into the top spot on the XBLA sales charts for last week (and deservedly so), Alien Hominid's been dragged along with it, slotting back into top ten in ninth spot. If you dig Castle Crashers, and have seen the "please buy our stuff it helps keep us alive" notices all over The Behemoth's site, you should be quite pleased with yourself. More »

Castle Crashers Beset By Problems, Patch On The Way

Stuart Houghton — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:30:00 EDT

Castle Crashers is proving rather popular with the XBLA crowd, but it is fair to say that it has had a difficult first couple of days. More »