Battleblock Theater

We have a winner! Congratulations to: Luke Altman – We’ll be in contact with the winner soon to explain how to claim his/her prize! The correct answer was “Pipistrello” from Castle Crashers (check the original image after the jump). Thanks for entering, everyone, and don’t forget to try again tomorrow!

Welcome to day four of our seven-day Battleblock Theater XBLA multiplayer beta code giveaway contest! At some point in February or March (the exact date has yet to be sorted out), The Behemoth’s Battleblock Theater will begin a closed beta, with 10,000 XBLA gamers getting access.

Sound like fun? Want in? Then all you have to do is guess which Behemoth game character is pictured in the above distorted image. Post your best guess in the comments below, and remember, if you don’t win today, be sure to keep coming back as we’ll be picking a winner every day for an entire week. Good luck!

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We have a winner! Congratulations to reader Rexandelar! We’ll be in contact with you soon to explain how to claim your prize! The correct answer was “Cyclops Boss” from Castle Crashers (check the original image after the jump). Thanks for entering, everyone, and don’t forget to try again tomorrow! Check out the original, undistorted version of the image after the jump.

Welcome to day number three of our seven-day Battleblock Theater XBLA multiplayer beta code giveaway contest! At some point in February or March (the exact date has yet to be sorted out), The Behemoth’s Battleblock Theater will begin a closed beta, with 10,000 XBLA gamers getting access.

Sound like fun? Want in? Then all you have to do is guess which Behemoth game character is pictured in the above distorted image. Post your best guess in the comments below, and remember, if you don’t win today, be sure to keep coming back as we’ll be picking a winner every day for an entire week. Good luck!

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We have a winner! Congratulations to: aSMiLoN (@aSMiLoN) — We’ll be in contact with the winner soon to explain how to claim his/her prize! The correct answer was “the Blue Knight” from Castle Crashers (check the original image after the jump). Thanks for entering, everyone, and don’t forget to try again tomorrow!

Welcome to day number two of our seven-day Battleblock Theater XBLA multiplayer beta code giveaway contest! At some point in February or March (the exact date has yet to be sorted out), The Behemoth’s Battleblock Theater will begin a closed beta, with 10,000 XBLA gamers getting access.

Sound like fun? Want in? Then all you have to do is guess which Behemoth game character is pictured in the above distorted image. Post your best guess in the comments below, and remember, if you don’t win today, be sure to keep coming back as we’ll be picking a winner every day for an entire week. Good luck!

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We have a winner! The correct answer was “the Green Knight from Castle Crashers” (check the original image after the jump). Congratulations to reader “thatpikminguy! We’ll be in contact with the winner soon to explain how to claim his/her prize! Thanks for entering, everyone, and don’t forget to try again tomorrow!

Note: Our original winning selection had invalid contact information, so we randomly chose a different winner. To avoid suffering the same fate in future contests, please remember to only post comments with an account that was registered with a valid email address, and/or provide us with a valid Twitter account. Unfortunately, readers who do not follow this protocol will have their entry invalidated. Thank you!

Welcome to first day of our seven-day Battleblock Theater XBLA multiplayer beta code giveaway contest! At some point in February or March (the exact date has yet to be sorted out), The Behemoth’s Battleblock Theater will begin a closed beta, with 10,000 XBLA gamers getting access.

Sound like fun? Want in? Then all you have to do is guess which Behemoth game character is pictured in the above distorted image. For your chance to win, post your best guess in the comments section below with an account that has a registered email address attached to it or post your Twitter handle in the comment if you’d like a faster response. Don’t forget to follow @XBLAFans on Twitter if you elect to provide your Twitter account instead of your email address. If you don’t win today, be sure to keep coming back as we’ll be picking a winner every day for an entire week. Good luck!

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If you can’t wait to get your hands on The Behemoth’s long-awaited platformer Battleblock Theater, now’s your chance to give it a try. Announced today by The Behemoth on …
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Here we are once again at the start of what’s sure to be another fantastic year of XBLA releases. Each day this week XBLA Fans will be rolling out a list of eight of our most anticipated Xbox Live Arcade releases of 2013. While we can’t possibly cover every single XBLA game planned for this year, we’ll be giving you a varied list of 40 of the most promising titles we expect to release on XBLA in 2013. Once it’s all done, be sure to check back in next Monday when each staff member makes his/her picks for the game he/she is most looking forward to.

Alien Fear

Developer: City Interactive

Alien Fear is an Unreal Engine 3-powered sci-fi first person shooter headed to XBLA, presumably at some point in 2013. Though we’re assuming that the above image is a target screen rather than an actual in-game image, developer City Interactive is promising that the use of Epic Games’ ubiquitous engine is allowing them to create an Xbox Live Arcade title that boasts “visually stunning, large-scale environments with impressive long-range vistas and expressionistic lighting.” The co-op shooter has yet to be shown in action, but XBLAFans is looking forward to finding out if the game lives up to the promise shown in the above image whenever we get our first real look at it.

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Launched in 2008, The Behemoth’s Castle Crashers went on to become one of the most popular co-op experiences on XBLA, with it just recently having crossed over the 3 million player threshold on its leaderboards. More than just inspiring gamers to fight with and against each other for the right to make out with princesses, though, the title also put the development community in a scramble to get their own take on the genre onto the platform. While none have enjoyed the same runaway success that Crashers has, certainly their collective presence has made the platform a modern haven for games of its ilk.

If PAX Prime was any indication, the rush isn’t going to be slowing down any time soon. The show floor was full of promising (and not-so-promising) 2D side-scrolling action games, and our team played just about every single one of them. On the second day of the show, XBLA Fans caught up with one of the men responsible for kicking off the craze, The Behemoth co-founder and Art Director Dan Paladin. He was open to talking about everything from the state of the beat-em-up to the studio’s past projects to its current one, BattleBlock Theater, to developing for XBLA. In fact, about the whole thing Paladin declined to discuss was BattleBlock‘s release date. It’s a subject he says the studio hasn’t talked about since it announced a 2010 release that it was unable to meet, a strategy that he claims hasn’t stopped the press or the public from announcing dates on their own. Read on for the full details.

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The Behemoth have unveiled a new level editor for BattleBlock Theater. The editor, which has been kept secret throughout development, will allow players to create their own levels and …
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Weekly Roundup compiles all the biggest news stories, reviews, and releases from the week into one handy post on the weekends.

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Battleblock Theater is a terrible place, forcing prisoners to perform deadly plays for the entertainment of giant cats. That isn’t to say it’s all bad, at least the prisoners …
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