I always feel douchey posting stuff on my blog like videos from Japan and pictures of me, but I guess that's the point of this page, to share more personal stuff, so here is my Halloween costume: IRON MAN. I wore a collared shirt underneath to dress it up.

I got the costume for a Halloween party last weekend and it has really weird below-chest muscle, if you notice. I stood with the George W arms to make myself look more buff in the picture. If you guys could post picture replies I would tell you to show me your costumes, maybe I'll mix that in with the pumpkin carving post for this weekend.

Rocco from Mega 64 posted this little video about us in Japan:

There is a Game Connection going on in France again before the end of the year. I went to France with John back in 2005, when we were looking for a publisher for Castle Crashers - this was before we moved it over to XBLA and decided to become our own publisher. If we went this year, it would be as a publisher looking to bring other games to market, but we're kinda up in the air on that. I really just want to go for the wine and food, which were awesome. I'm tired of traveling, though, so the UK Meetup is probably all I'll keep on my plate.

Speaking of which, the UK Meetup is in January! I just mailed in my passport renewal form this morning because my passport expires in November. It's kinda sad to start with a new passport because you lose all the stamps that show what countries you've been to, but I guess it also gives you a reason to want to travel a lot and fill it up again. I'm pretty good now that I got Japan out of my system, though.

We just had our latest ultrasound visit and everything is looking good, so I figured now is a good time to finally announce that APRIL IS PREGNANT! The new Fulp is due on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day.

Here are some pics from a photo booth in a Tokyo arcade, sorry if they make you throw up in your mouth.

Luis makes me feel guilty talking about Castle Crashers on the front page, so I gotta keep it all here on my blog.

TSstudios sent me this video from the NY Anime Fest:

Also, check out these guys who raced in LeMons with a Castle Crashers car! A pic of the car also appeared in this NY Times article.

Check out Dan's latest devblog post for some fun fan-art and title update news and whatnot.

I'm about to make a much bigger FRONT PAGE post that will be more exciting for guys like LUIS.

The Castle Crashers booth at PAX was a huge success this year! We pretty much sold out of everything we brought, which is especially nice at the end of the show when we need to pack everything up and ship it back.

Every year at PAX, I end up buying a few games at the Pink Godzilla booth. This year, I bought Rhythm Tengoku 2 (DS) and PC Engine Best Collection. PEBC is three classic PC Engine games on one PSP disc: Galaxy Fraulein Yuna 1&2, and Galaxy Policewoman Sapphire. Yuna is some sort of interactive story game featuring girls in space suits; completely worthless crap. Policewoman Sapphire, however, is an awesome vertical shooter, "the best shooter ever for the PC Engine", according to Nathan from Pink Godzilla.

That night, the guys from Pink Godzilla toilet papered our booth before meeting us for dinner.

Back to Castle Crashers - someone is making a Street Fighter vs Castle Crashers MUGEN!

Despite the network and save issues (a title update is on the way), the fan response to Castle Crashers has been totally amazing. We received this email today:

To Tom fulp.
To Dan paladin.

It apologizes.
The photograph of the papercraft was suddenly sent.

I was glad and it was exciting.

My name is LESQUA.
I am Japanese.
It works at the game company in Japan.

The game that you made is very interesting and wonderful.
It is impressed and the papermodel has been made instinctively.

Please hold out in the future.
It looks forward.

Thank you.

You can see a picture of the papercraft below, along with a picture taken at a Trader Joe's in California!

So I'm about to watch this movie and it has ONE review, with a score of zero. The review read:

"What is up with the coughing and burping throughout the video? That was incredibly annoying. I wasn't even able to finish watching the video because of it."

So then I watched the movie and having read the review, it suddenly became funny for some stupid reason.

Lots of cool stuff coming up for the Wii, but these guys will never want to go on stage again after seeing this.

I've been back all week and I'm kinda caught up, with the exception of an old PM backlog that I still need to get through. Most of my time is still spent fixing bugs and play testing Castle Crashers, which continues to be fun after all these years, thanks to all the crazy multiplayer mayhem.

Today we'll be announcing the winners of the annual awards! I also need to include an announcement about Apple Con in NYC, where a bunch of us will be on June 7th and 8th (next weekend). You can get all the details in this post by Luis.

Next up: I'm finally gonna finish Pixel Puncher. It should run insanely well with the Flash 10 plugin!