Catan was the Xbox Live Arcade version of Klaus Teuber's The Settlers of Catan developed by Big Huge Games in collaboration with Teuber. It was released on May 2 2007. It is the first German-style board game to be released on Xbox Live Arcade which was followed by Carcassonne. The game has since been removed from Xbox Live Arcade and is no longer available to purchase. During an interview with Big Huge Games founder Brian Reynolds it was revealed that Microsoft approached Big Huge Games with the idea for the project. As part of the same interview Klaus Teuber's collaboration on the project was explained noting that he was instrumental in helping Reynolds create the AI using notes and statistics he had generated years ago but had never previously been able to apply.