pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag"Online/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/12/01/the-behemoth-release-of-castle-crashers-patching-nearing-end-o"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/c-crashers-490.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left"The fact The Behemoth's fun, but undeniably broken a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/castle-crashers/"emCastle Crashers/em/a hasn't yet been patched boggles the mind. More than two years after the game's initial reveal, what players are left with is a crippled 1200img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/11/microsoftpointslogosmall.gif" / icon on their dashboard and months of a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/31/pax-2008-the-behemoth-talks-castle-crashers-pricing-patches-an/"promises/a for something better down the road. Not good enough guys, emnot even close/em.br /br /Our sister site, a href="http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/12/01/the-behemoth-release-of-castle-crashers-patching-nearing-end-o"Xbox 360 Fanboy/a, stepped up and asked The Behemoth point blank what's the hold up, to which they were treated to the same sort of non-information we've been reading for months. Yes, a patch emis /emcoming, and the devs say they are working to "get the title update out as quickly as we can." Also, the patch is "definitely reaching the end of the process," though a release date a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/05/castle-crashers-patch-still-without-release-date"remains unknown/a. We've reached out to The Behemoth to see if we can find out more, but come on guys. Some things bend your line of credulity. Others, like this fiasco, just break it right in two. /div /divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/the-behemoth-still-tinkering-with-that-castle-crashers-patch/"The Behemoth still tinkering with that Castle Crashers patch/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:10:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/12/01/the-behemoth-release-of-castle-crashers-patching-nearing-end-oRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/the-behemoth-still-tinkering-with-that-castle-crashers-patch/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1387758/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/01/the-behemoth-still-tinkering-with-that-castle-crashers-patch/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vrVp9wXkDbfYCAt9sziiGOAD6uE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vrVp9wXkDbfYCAt9sziiGOAD6uE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=Mg8X4DH5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=Mg8X4DH5" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=lCsMWaZd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=lCsMWaZd" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/3gmy-g20cD8" height="1" width="1"/

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