Castle Crashers, Win A Free Copy

August 19, 2008| schommer| 0 Comment| 1:43 pm

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Although we weren’t able to get a free copy to give away for Castle Crashers due to limited supply, GameStooge has one, and has the ability to hand one out. If you’re looking to get in on the contest and potentially get a free code to download Castle Crashers upon its release, checkout GameStooge’s contest.

The rules are simple: “Write in the comment section what is your favorite movie with a castle, and why it’s the castle is so great in it – minimum 30 words.” The game looks crazy fun, so I highly suggest you put in a contest entry if you’ve got an Xbox 360 gamer tag and 360 console to play it on!

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Kamran Avani says:

August 31, 2008 at 1:41 am

my favorite is the miniature castle from the ringer. The on that the special midget stays in. it is the best castle because it has the best wizard, better than gandalf!!! lol

gamertag- Kamthebeast

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ut gow says:

February 27, 2009 at 5:55 am

My fav castle movie is monty python holy grail, i like the castle because they are stupid people inside.

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Wakanoid says:

April 19, 2009 at 8:54 pm

lord of the rings, cuz its a castle where a legend was made 😀 epic movie. epic castle. .. mmm =)

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Finol says:

August 31, 2009 at 11:50 am

I think best movie with the castle is Lord Of the Rings because it has many of castles ,and games of LOTR-Lord of the rings are too good

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Aklid says:

September 16, 2009 at 8:42 pm

my favorite castle movie was in eragon because the castle was pitch black hade some pretty cool guards and held the evil shade in it so that was my favorite part! Gamertag: AC3 4 LIF3

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jonahfalcon says:

September 17, 2009 at 10:20 am

Sorry, Aklid, 1. the contest was at GameStooge, and 2. the contest is long over. 🙂

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