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'Serious Sam 4' arrives on PC and Stadia in August
'Serious Sam 4' is coming to PC and Stadia this August, although console players will have to wait.
Google announces five Stadia games, including 'Panzer Dragoon: Remake'
Google has announced its next batch of games for its Stadia streaming service. The quintet includes entries from franchises that might ring a bell: Panzer Dragoon and Serious Sam.
Steam weekend deals: Devolver, Total War and Blood Dragon
Strategy, action, bloody arcade madness? Steam is having a sale on all of those this weekend! First up, publisher Devolver's dropping discounts on Hotline Miami ($2.49), Shadow Warrior ($26.79) and the Serious Sam series ($14.24 for all of 'em). Also discounted this weekend is Sega's strategic Total War: Rome 2 for $44.96, which is 25 percent off. Wrapping up the weekend deals (as far as we know, at this moment in time) is a bundle of Call of Juarez Gunslinger and '80s neon wash romp Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon at 50 percent off for $12.50 – also available at $7.50 apiece. Steam reserves the right to add even more weekend sales whenever it feels like it.
Serious Sam Collection gets Mental in Europe July 12
A new Serious Sam bundle will make its debut on Xbox 360 next month, July 12. Included within the Serious Sam Collection are Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, HD remakes of the first two original Serious Sam games, plus sequel Serious Sam 3: BFE and its "Jewel of the Nile" DLC. Rounding out the collection is Mommy's Best Games' side-scroller, Serious Sam Double D XXL. This specific announcement applies to Europe where The Mastertronic Group, with blessings from developer Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital, will offer the Serious Sam Collection. We've inquired about a North American release and will update this post when we hear back.
Serious Sam stars in newest Humble Weekly Sale
This week's Humble Weekly Sale collects just about every remake, sequel, and spinoff in Croteam's Serious Sam series as a pay-what-you-want compilation for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The bundle's core package includes the unapologetically arcadey first-person shooters Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, along with a rarely-seen public test version of the original Serious Sam. Also included are Vlambeer's turn-based RPG Serious Sam: The Random Encounter, Mommy's Best Games' gun-stacking side-scroller Serious Sam Double D, and Be-Rad Entertainment's autoscrolling platformer Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack. Bundle buyers who beat the average purchase price (currently around $4) will also receive Serious Sam 2 and the Deluxe Edition of Serious Sam 3 BFE, which includes the Classic (non-HD) versions of The First Encounter and The Second Encounter, along with a downloadable soundtrack. Serious Sam's Humble Weekly Sale ends on June 13.
Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile DLC announced
Devolver Digital announced DLC for Serious Sam 3: BFE today by the name of Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile. The DLC features three new missions set in the middle of the game's storyline, in which Sam explores the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae.Serious Sam 3: Jewel of the Nile will launch on PC in October 2012 for a currently unannounced price. Check out our gallery of the DLC below!%Gallery-160026%
Serious Sam Complete Pack launches on Steam with sweet deal
So you've been abroad for the past few years, backpacking across Europe or whatever it is you were doing -- we didn't want to ask. It's none of our business what you were up to, but now that you're back, maybe you want to dust off your keyboard, boot up your PC and see what you've missed?If you're a Serious Sam fan you've missed quite a few games. As if celebrating your return, Steam is offering a Serious Sam bundle on sale. It collects eight different games for $28.90. These include the classic Serious Sam games and their HD remakes, the sequels Serious Sam 2 and Serious Sam 3: BFE, and the Mommy's Best Games indie effort, Serious Sam Double D. Once this deal expires on February 27, the bundle cost $84.99.Accompanying the sale is a nice retrospective video that looks back at the iconic PC series, which you can watch above this chunk of text. Convenient.
Indie Royale presents the Serious Sam lightning deal
Indie Royale is hosting a lightning deal over a span of 100 hours, serving up five indie titles from one niche franchise -- Serious Sam. The Indie Royale lightning deal includes Serious Sam: The Random Encounter, Serious Sam Double D, Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack, The First and Second Encounter and the world premiere of Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter, an 8-bit top-down demake.These indie homages to Serious Sam launched alongside Serious Sam 3: BFE last year, each taking a different approach to revamping the franchise. The Indie Royale lightning deal marks Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack's premiere on PC, previously being a mobile title. As with all Indie Royale deals, the earlier you buy, the cheaper the minimum price -- although people paying more than the minimum can bring down the price for everyone. So don't put down those scissors or those bombs, and run like lightning!
Serious Sam 3 review: Rebel in excess
There is a speck of decency to be found in the unvarnished and churlish Serious Sam. It's right there in the name: despite all temptations and probable pleading from the marketing department, it didn't come out as "Shoot Many Monsters." That's exactly what you do, over and over again, but the important thing is how you do it. Be careful what you call mindless. Serious Sam 3: BFE lacks the long-term mental overhead of equipment upgrades and character augmentation, and the only emergent gameplay is something slimy crawling out of a cocoon, but it does know how to commandeer concentration -- ruthlessly. You're so plugged in from moment to moment, fingers flitting over the keyboard as you sprint, dodge and shuffle weapons in an onslaught of snorting beasts, it's a lie to think you haven't thought. So involving is the instinctive, mechanical game that context becomes a luxury.
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here. This week, in a three-part series we're featuring the creators of the Serious Sam indie series. Today, it's Brad Johnson of Be-Rad about his recent iOS and Android release, Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack. Why be independent rather than try to work for someone else? Been there, done that. Bosses aren't for me, unless it's a boss battle. Being independent puts me in control of the whole development process so I can set my own schedules and create what I want to create. Sometimes I have flashbacks of working overtime for my old employers and I want to scream "FREEEDOOOOOOOOM!!!" like William Wallace did at the end of Braveheart, but then I snap out of it and realize where I'm at and am thankful I'm doing my own thing.
Play as Serious Sam's worst enemy in Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack
In Serious Sam, there is perhaps no enemy more terrifying than the Headless Kamikaze. It's easy to hate the screaming, bomb-wielding villain, but it's important to remember that he's a person. A freaky, headless person, sure, but a person. This fact is illustrated by the new Android and iOS game Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack. Developed by Be-Rad Entertainment for the Serious Sam Indie Series, Kamikaze Attack tells its story from the perspective of a Headless Kamikaze, as he desperately attempts to explode the iron-jawed hero. Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack is scheduled to be released before the end of July.
Dreams come true: Serious Sam: Double D has a four-chainsaw Gun Stacker
They say that dreams don't come true, and they're right, as our utter lack of bacon-generating jetpacks can attest. But the one place that rule doesn't apply is in the Joystiq comments section. Want proof? Check out the above comment, from our post about Serious Sam: Double D's brilliant Gun Stacker. Inspired by this comment, the hard-working staff of Mommy's Best Games went and ... you guessed it: PUT 4 CHAINSAWS ON IT. Check out the gallery for the proof and get ready to believe in miracles.%Gallery-127357%
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is seriously an RPG
Yes, for its third of the Serious Sam Indie Series, Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer made an RPG. These new screens of Serious Sam: The Random Encounter reveal a game with both exploration and combat delivered in a 16-bit Final Fantasy-style. Of course, because it's a Serious Sam game, it's a Final Fantasy-style RPG populated by impossibly beefy dudes with big arms, bigger sidearms, and giant, grotesque robotic alien things.%Gallery-126830%
Seriously wild Serious Sam: Double D screens, Gun Stacking details
Remember that scene in Aliens where Ripley tapes together the pulse rifle and flamethrower? Now imagine doing that with five guns. That's the concept behind Serious Sam: Double D's weapon stacking mechanic -- and it looks as cool as it sounds. Designer Nathan Fouts of Mommy's Best Games (Xbox indies Weapon of Choice, Shoot 1UP and Explosionade) has posted a look at the inner workings of the Gun Stacker system on the developer's blog. It explains the mixing and matching of firearms from top to bottom, from finding hidden weapons and the requisite Gun Stacker arms, to the interface used to bolt them together -- there are even some dev tips for ... interesting combinations. Try as we may, we haven't been able to successfully stack chainsaws, tommy guns and grenade launchers onto our laptops after reading the post, but you can see how crazy it would look (minus the laptop) in the gallery below.%Gallery-122210%
The most important thing about Serious Sam: Double D
Professional game critic though I may be, I don't have too much in the way of valuable insight to offer about Serious Sam: Double D, Mommy's Best Games' entry in the Serious Sam Indie Series. Blending the run-and-gun dual-stick action of Mommy's Best's Weapon of Choice with Serious Sam's ... headless dudes with bombs for hands works as well as you'd think. No, the most important thing about the game I can relate to you is elegantly conveyed by the above screenshot. While many games will let you wield a shotgun, machine gun and plasma rifle, only one game will supply you with an item that lets you stack all of them together and fire them simultaneously. The Gun Stacker: Let it never be said 2011 was without innovation.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter shoots up XBLA on Sept. 22
Finally, fans left hanging at the conclusion of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter can get a bit of closure on September 22, as Majesco has confirmed the launch date for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. If there's anything that these games are known for, it's their rich narrative and character development, so to leave us hanging like that is criminal. All jokes aside, we could all probably use a bit more of "shoot everybody and don't die" in our lives. Keeps you feeling young, you know? Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter adds three new weapons -- the Sniper Rifle, Flamethrower and Chainsaw -- and co-op support for up to four players across 12 maps, including team-based and competitive modes. No price has been announced for The Second Encounter, though we suspect pricing will be in line with the first game: 1200 MS Points ($15). %Gallery-100187%
Serious Sam: The First Encounter (classic) now on GOG
What you may not know about Sam, resident evil-alien-thing-killer and titular hero of the Serious Sam series, is that he's a serious guy. No, we don't mean he can't take a joke -- he's serious about savings, whether it be a coupon on a can of Campbell's Chunky or the fate of the whole world, he's all about the savings. And now GOG is saving you from a meaningless existence by offering the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter for $10. That Hamilton will not only net you the original shooter, but also the game's soundtrack, though we can't imagine why anyone would want that. We panic enough when we hear this in the game -- we don't need to start looking over our shoulder at every crosswalk for fear of kamikaze, combustible dudes running us down, you know?
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter confirmed for XBLA, up for pre-order on Steam
While the title has been on the radar since November, Majesco has now confirmed that Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is headed to Xbox Live Arcade in addition to the PC. Previously relegated to the more nebulous "home console," the HD remake is officially coming to XBLA with some new features in toe. There is no release date mentioned, though the Steam version is currently listed for April 28. The game includes a new deathmatch mode along with co-op, capture the flag and survival modes. It also includes lots and lots of enemies. For those interested in the PC version, Steam is currently offering pre-purchases on the game for $17.99, two bucks off the normal $19.99 price. Pre-orders will also get an extra multiplayer and co-op character: Ugh-zan, the boss of The First Encounter. Check out a new trailer after the break. [Via Big Download]
Serious Sam HD: Second Encounter pushed to April
Our beloved sister site, Big Download, reports that Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter has been slightly delayed to April -- and, frankly, if you can't trust your own sister, who can you trust? (That's on PC, mind you. No word on the 360 port's timing.) BD was also told that a deathmatch and dedicated servers update for the first game would arrive soon and that The Second Encounter would ship with both of those features. We're happy for the tidbits, but we can't figure out why Devolver Digital would give all that cool, manly news to our dumb little sister. She still plays with My Little Ponies and Polly Pocket. What does she know about a game where dudes have bombs for hands?
Steam offers 'Serious Sam HD Four Pack' deal
Have you wanted to check out Serious Sam HD, yet haven't had the ample supply of greenbacks to pony up? Steam is running a pretty sweet deal right now with a four pack bundle. By slapping down très Benjamins ($60), you can get four copies of the super happy fun time remake of Croteam's classic, essentially a buy-three-get-one deal and solid way to get an early lead in the Great Gift Giver of 2010 competition. Speaking of giving gifts: you'd also be able to give the gift of cooperation and the promise to rescue your friends from headless, screaming men holding bombs running at full speed toward them. If there's a better way to tell someone you care, we really haven't heard of it. [Via Big Download]
