Update: Behemoth confirmed today that no official price has been set on their game Castle Crashers and that they are working with Microsoft to set a ‘reasonable’ price for it.

Ever since Behemoth, the makers of Alien Hominid, announced their new game Castle Crashers for the arcade, everyone has been excited. It features 4 player co-up, unrelenting humor, and crazy difficult levels. But the official Japanese Xbox website posted the prices for Castle Crashers and other summer arcade releases today and some people might be considerably less excited. The website reports that Castle Crashers should cost 1800 MS points or for humans, 22.50 dollars. If the game costs that much in the US, it will be the most expensive arcade release in the history of Xbox Live. The game is set to release August 27th, 2008, at least that gives us some time to start saving up our MS points. Here is the full list of the other games releases dates and prices.

• July 30: Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (800 MS points / $10)
• August 6: Braid (1200 MS points / $15)
• August 13: Bionic Commando Rearmed (800 MS points / $10)
• August 20: Galaga Legions (800 MS points / $10)
• August 27: Castle Crashers (1800 MS points / $22.50)

via [Japenese Xbox Blog]