Two fantastic XBLA award winners are heading to the PlayStation Network. PS3 fans rejoice! Braid (Best Innovation in XBLA) has no release date scheduled as of yet but Castle Crashers (Best Overall Arcade Game, Best Original Game, and Best Co-operative Multiplayer Game) is set for a vague 2010 release. Coincidentally enough, both games began development in 2006 and released on August 2008 to critical success.

Castle Crashers is a side-scrolling beat ‘em up 4 player action adventure game with a dash of RPG elements. If that didn’t get you all tingly inside then I don’t know what will. Btw, in the image above, that is a giant cat fish shark thing being ridden by a polar bear! How fucking badass is that!!!

Developed by the Behem0th, creators of the wonderfully addictive but painfully difficult Alien Hominid. The game starts with a bunch of little knight dudes dancing, drinking, and living it up when all of a sudden a dark wizard breaks in and kidnaps their women!…oh, and he takes some magical crystal which belongs to the King as well, but that’s beside the point…So the main 4 colorful knights set out on a quest to get their bitches back! That pretty much sums up the story. There are many levels in this game and each one is just so much fun to play. Especially with a few close buddies, which you will undoubtedly need when taking on the ‘Insane’ difficulty mode. The game supports up to 4 player offline/online co-op.

Braid is a 2D puzzler platformer akin to the likes of the classic ‘Super Mario Bros.‘ but with a unique time bending twist. Essentially the SMB of a new era, if you will.

The settings in this game look like water paintings come to life. Once you see it in action it’s quite beautiful. The story revolves around a little English looking dude, named Tim, on a quest to find and rescue a “princess.” The game is divided into six worlds, each of which has it’s own time-base mechanic. While progressing, the beginning of each world has an excerpt that reveals a part of the story. In addition to that, each stage contains puzzle pieces which must be collected and ultimately assembled into a jiggsaw puzzle. Which depicts a frame pertaining to that part of the story. All in all the game is simple and complex at the same time. Something that very little games achieve.

I’ll be sure to update when information about release dates are announced.