Apparently it’s the season of free remasters. Following on from The Astronauts’ work on the Ethan Carter Redux comes news that The Behemoth is giving its 2D arcade brawler Castle Crashers a fresh lick of paint.
”We’re currently developing a Steam update of Castle Crashers ‘Remastered’ that will incorporate the increased frame rate and behemoth texture sizes and almost all the other cool enhancements that we recently released on Xbox One,” writes the team. ”We’ve even included the new, super fun, multiplayer mini-game, Back Off Barbarian! It’s amazing! Your eyes are going to bleed it is so beautiful!
Don’t expect the game to be ported to the Unreal Engine or anything. Behemoth is quick to point out that the free PC update isn’t an entirely new version of the game, and won’t add any new content beyond the new mode. It’s a remaster, but it’s not ’Castle Crashers Remastered’, if that makes sense.
”To avoid confusion, developers add stuff like ‘HD!’ ‘Remastered’, ‘Gold Edition’ to differentiate between the versions. But what about our favorite thoroughbred workhorse, the PC? Well, since the CPU architecture is not changing, a new version is not required. We just need to post an update to what is already there. So we don’t need the ‘Remastered’ any more.”
So there you go. No word on when the update will be released, but expect it to hit Steam before the end of the year.
