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Serious Sam 3: BFE has some semblance of a story
If there's one thing that Serious Sam needs, it's more story. Also, there's a gun that shoots enormous balls. So it's still totally Serious Sam.
Serious Sam 3: BFE trailer tastes like iron
By which we mean both heavy metal music and blood. Large, large amounts of blood. Copious, you might say.
Serious Sam 3: BFE Melee Attacks trailer isn't afraid to get its hands dirty
When facing thousands upon thousands of horrible extraterrestrial abominations, it's easy to sit back and let your impressively destructive arsenal of ballistics do all the work for you. Real men, however, commit intergalactic xenocide with their bare hands as demonstrated in the latest trailer for Serious Sam 3: BFE.
Serious Sam 3: BFE weapons are made of metal, so is this trailer
If you're anywhere near anything that could become a mosh pit, and you don't want said place to become a mosh pit, we suggest turning down the volume on this Serious Sam 3: BFE weapons trailer. Otherwise, instant mosh pit.
Serious Sam 3: BFE seriously delayed until Nov. 22
Serious Sam 3: BFE is taking an extra month to prepare for its debut and will now arrive on November 22. The time will be spent polishing the game, which was originally expected to launch October 18. "The game is playing wonderfully and looks great, so we are going through to balance the difficulty and fine tune the code to eliminate any technical issues at launch," said Davor Hunski, Chief Creative at Croteam. The game is currently available for pre-order on Steam and other digital distribution systems for 10 percent off. On Steam, there's an additional 10 percent off if you already own a previous Serious Sam title. There's also the "timed exclusive" of Devolver Digital CFO Fork Parker as a multiplayer avatar for use in Serious Sam 3: BFE -- meaning you'll be able to shoot him over and over again for making you wait an extra month. Revenge!
Serious Sam 3's three 'Rich Knuckles' trailers
A part of us likes the idea of the Serious Sam 3: BFE help line being manned by Rich Knuckles. If only so we could ask how his metacarpophalangeals became so affluent.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is nuts
Your daily quota of "charging beasts being ripped asunder by projectile saw blades" is about to be filled. Quit being unfulfilled and take a look!%Gallery-131779%
Serious Sam 3: BFE headlessly heads to PC on Oct. 18
The Good Book tells us that thou shalt not suffer a GIANT SCORPION MAN THING to live -- and fortunately for us all, we won't have to suffer for much longer. Croteam and Devolver Digital have announced that their upcoming arcadey shooter, Serious Sam 3: BFE, will arrive on PC on October 18, meaning we're a little under two months from fulfilling the mandate of the aforementioned, completely made-up scripture. If you're planning on picking up the title, you might want to pre-order it on Steam; once reservations on the title become available on the platform, they'll save you a cool 10 percent off the final purchase price of the game.
Seriously, give these Serious Sam 3: BFE screens from Gamescom a look
There's a GIANT SCORPION MAN THING in it for you.
Serious Sam 3 to offer four-player splitscreen, seriously
Croteam, the folks behind the upcoming Serious Sam 3: BFE, must be seriously crazy about nostalgia, because they've decided to include a feature PC gaming hasn't seen in quite a while: Split-screen multiplayer. The developer has announced that the game will indeed allow for up to four players to play on the same screen, with the help of a keyboard and mouse and up to three gamepads. All of the versus and co-op modes will allow for splitscreen play, so just like old times, you'll be able to see what your friends are up to, helping or hampering them as you will. Check the screens below to see what this chaos looks like. %Gallery-130256%
Croteam looking for fan-written graffiti for Serious Sam 3
In a press release so tongue-in-cheek we're worried about their jawlines, Croteam has announced that its "Lead In-Game Wall Graffiti Artist" has decided to quit the company, leaving an opening for ... well, you. We're pretty sure Croteam is just joking, but the outcome is that it's having a contest for secret graffiti in Serious Sam 3: BFE, asking fans to submit some quick quips that will actually be posted in the game's environments, coded in Arabic and hieroglyphics. You need to submit lines, either through Facebook or Twitter, by July 29, and the team's favorite lines will actually show up in the game. We were going to suggest the old standby "Kilroy was here," but someone on the Facebook page already posted that one, so we're out. Good luck to everyone else who enters!
Meet Serious Sam's Headless Kamikaze: Brett Sanderson
There's no job more fulfilling than one that decapitates its employees and permanently straps explosives to their hands on the first day. The Headless Kamikaze from Serious Sam 3: BFE take their jobs, well, seriously, as shown in this Mental recruitment video.
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%
Serious Sam 3: BFE preview: Nostalgia, reloaded
Sam isn't a man of change. You won't find him giving Yoga a whirl and you probably won't find him taking a leap on a VitaBoost passion-mango smoothie or whatever. And it shows in Serious Sam 3: BFE -- a case where minimal change actually ends up being a good thing. I was able to check out two different levels here at E3: the first level, a tutorial stage set in the streets of Cairo that eases you into the action, and a later, more traditional Serious Sam stage set amongst some ruins in a desert. %Gallery-125707%
Serious Sam 3: BFE teaser trailer shows us a Mental invasion
Sample your first look at gameplay in this Serious Sam 3: BFE teaser trailer. If you were wondering whether there would be countless stuff to shoot in the third entry, fear not: the enemy hordes look as overwhelming as ever!
Serious Sam titles are 75 percent off this weekend on Steam
It seems like every other week Serious Sam is on sale on Steam, and this weekend is no different. If you've yet to pounce on one of the preceding deals, then know you can get 75% off the game this weekend -- whether you want to snag the games piecemeal or all together in one bundle. Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter are marked down to $3.74 and $4.99, respectively. The Serious Sam Gold Edition, which includes both HD remakes and the original PC games, is $9.99. If you're looking for just the HD remakes, then you can snag them both in a bundle for $7.49.
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 gets serious indie cred with new Indie Series
Normally, when a developer farms out one of its franchises to a smaller team, the groans are justified. But this time, the outsourcing is seriously appealing. Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital have announced the Serious Sam Indie Series, in which known indie developers remake Croteam's famous shooter in their own styles. The first three devs to take on this Serious task are Mommy's Best Games, Vlambeer, and Be-Rad Entertainment. Mommy's Best is doing what it does best, a "frantic side-scrolling shooter" for PC and consoles called Serious Sam: Double-D. Super Crate Box creator Vlambeer mashes up genres to create the turn-based RPG Serious Sam: The Random Encounter for unspecified platforms, and Lame Castle's Be-Rad Entertainment interprets the series as an auto-running game about guiding Headless Kamikazes out of the path of Sam, called Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack! Platform specifics about Random Encounter and Kamikaze Attack have yet to be revealed, though Kamikaze Attack sounds like a candidate for a mobile release. If you're at PAX East this weekend, you can find out for yourself -- Double D and Kamikaze Attack will be playable at booth I-16. If there's one flaw to this plan, it's that these indie games sound way more interesting than the actual Serious Sam sequel they're intended to promote.%Gallery-118687%
Serious Sam 3: BFE detailed, more screens released
Following the recent sneak peek of Serious Sam 3: BFE on the game's Facebook page, developer Croteam has fully parted the curtain standing between us and this prequel to The First Encounter set in ... bum fudge Egypt (or something like that). In a wildly amusing press release (after the break), the studio revealed some of the game's key features, including its lush Egyptian setting and 16-player "full campaign" co-op. (We wonder if it'll have 16 player split-screen support? We've always wanted to truly utilize our 256-inch monitor.) Serious Sam 3: BFE (the acronym won't be spelled out) is scheduled for release on PC and "game consoles" this summer. Check out the new screens below for more insight into its arcadey action! %Gallery-117773%
Serious Sam 3: BFE's first screen introduces the Scrapjack
We've heard of flapjacks and snapbacks, and backpacks and scrapnaps (a nap after you've been scrapping, duh), but we've never heard of a "Scrapjack." It's a new enemy in Serious Sam 3: BFE, as revealed on the game's Facebook page, and it's the subject of the first released screenshot (above; high-res version in the gallery below). Perhaps the big clue -- which may lead us to the meaning of the game's "BFE" subtitle -- is a modern-looking sign with Arabic script. Update: Egypt it is! %Gallery-117715%
