Battleblock Theater, the long, long-awaited title from Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth, passed Microsoft certification just before San Diego Comic-Con kicked off last week, project manager Emil Ayoubkhan told us at another fantastic installment of the Behemoth booth.

Battleblock Theater is set to launch by the end of the year, Ayoubkhan said, and with its certification all wrapped up, it should be able to do so without fuss. It should be and it better, because we don't know how much longer we can wait to play a game that has cats, hats and cooperative, combative platforming.