Over 1 Million Served!
One of our favorite old school cool co-op titles is Castle Crashers. Apparently, we aren't the only ones who enjoy the game, either, according to the Behemoth development blog. Just two days ago, on June 22, the one millionth player was listed on the Castle Crashers leaderboard. This achievement makes Castle Crashers the fastest growing title ever released on Xbox Live Arcade. It's good to see that such an honor belongs to a very strong co-op title!
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Castle Crashers is one of the greatest co-op titles on Xbox Live Arcade. Old School beat em up gameplay, charming, hilarious style, and 4 player co-op are a recipe for a good time. Apparently there are many others who share our high opinion of the game. In fact, that number is quite large: the Castle Crashers leaderboards include over 900,000 players!
To celebrate, Behemoth is running a contest. All you have to do is guess the date and time that the leaderboard reads 1,000,000 players. The prize is unknown at this time, but is promised to be "awesome, nay, SPECTACULAR!" I'm sure it will be quite amazing.
Speaking of amazing, have you checked out the adorable Castle Crashers figurines? I know at least one staff member has a set, and I think they'd look great next to my Transformers Mighty Muggs...
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"Yes, dear..."
This week we're featuring another Co-Op Couples submission, this time from guest writer Ethan Kaye . Ethan helps us revisit Castle Crashers , Xbox Live's 2009 Live Arcade Game of the Year, as well as some other favorite co-op titles. Read on for a musing romp through the living room of a friendly new Co-Op Couple...
It's Episode 15 of the Co-Opticast, and we discuss the latest breaking Co-Op news. First up is Bioshock 2 - should it or shouldn't it have co-op.
We examine trailer #3 from the Behemoth to determine if this is the next Castle Crashers. Finally we top it all off with some Ghostbusters co-op info and a splash of the new Battle.Net.
Marc guests on the show to discuss the sites family oriented features and columns and Mike and Nick review Resident Evil 5.
All of that content packed into a 45 minute nugget of audio goodness.
Co-op ruled them all in the 2nd Annual Xbox Live Arcade awards. Castle Crashers beat out the assumed favorite, Braid, for the overall Game of the Year in 2008 on Xbox Live Arcade.
Behemoth's four player co-op hack and slash also took in awards for Best Original Game and Best Co-Op game. All very promising considering the trailer we just saw for their third game.
The full list of winners can be found right ahead.
As promised, the Behemoth has delivered a trailer for their 3rd game. It is perhaps the most dramatic, musical and emotional trailer for a video game you'll ever see - and you won't have a friggin clue what the heck is going on.
The good news is the game, still very very early in development, looks extremely co-op-able. There's sections where players help lift each other up, similar to what players do in Army of Two. We also see plenty of gameplay bits with multiple players fighting baddies on the screen at once, and it appears there's some sort of puzzle element to the game.
Of course Game #3 features the same iconic art style of Dan Paladin and the trailer shows this well, including some pretty interesting cut scenes.
The Behemoth, makers of the ridiculously awesome four player co-op Castle Crashers, have announced that they are announcing their new game; aptly titled Game #3 on March 18th. Got that? The developers are announcing and announcement which is actually a video of a game that's yet to be announced.
With game #1 having co-op, that's Alien Hominid; and game #2 having co-op, that's Castle Crashers - we think the chances are pretty good that game #3 will support our favorite multiplayer option.
The only thing revealed so far is the above piece of artwork. There's not much to grasp from it - glowing red eyes from an army of some strange creature adore the background, while the foreground shows someone attempting to purchase, or perhaps pawn, and emerald. And is Mr. Top Hat crying there? Perhaps tears of joy for co-op.
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Microsoft is holding their second annual Xbox Live Arcade Awards, and just like last year, all voting is done by users of Xbox Live.
The arcade games are broken down into categories, and you have all the usual suspect; Best Overall Game, Best Graphics, Most Innovative, etc. There's also a a separate category for Best Co-Op Game, which is a nice treat.
And the nominees for Best Cooperative Multiplayer in an arcade game are....
So there you have it! There's even a few of those nominated for best overall.
Make sure you head onto Xbox Live to cast your ballot. Voting begins tomorrow and runs until March 10th. More information can be found at the official website.
I know what I'd vote for....
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If you haven't already bought the Castle Crashers DLC King Pack released in January, then you now have a chance to get it for free! Two chances!
Last week, The Behemoth created a Twitter account for all to follow, and Tuesday they gave a heads-up on free King Pack codes. Yesterday, they posted two methods to their developer blog; this morning, our own animerion tipped us via the Co-Optimus forums.
Follow the links to animerion's forum post, or click the "Source" link below. Hurry -- codes are still available, but in limited supply.
Update: And they're gone.
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Now that we can connect and play with our friends on the four-player sidescroller beat-'em-up Castle Crashers, developer The Behemoth is finally ready to roll out some new content!
January 14th will mark the release of the The King Pack.
Despite The Behemoth's apparent wishes to offer the downloadable characters and weapons for free, Microsoft has seen fit to tag a small price on: $2.00. All in all, not a bad deal.
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