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Betrayal! Oh, the wound! Why, why, why? The eve of shamelessly excessive manshooting with a retro flavour but a hypermodern look was almost upon us, and then they only go and move the release date of Serious Sam 3: BFE back by a month. I BET THEY DON’T EVEN LOVE US AT ALL. I bet they don’t even like us. Wonder what crappy reason they’re going to fob us off with? So they can add more DRM? Because Microsoft told them too? Because they’re in a dark alliance with an evil retail chain? Or just because they’re cold, mean-hearted bastards?(more…)

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.

These Rich Knuckles / Serious Sam 3 helpline videos aren’t ever going to stop, are they? As long as that man has breath in his body, he will just keep on uttering catchphrases, puns, mum gags and snarky digs at the competition. And reassuring people that 16-player co-op does not count as an orgy.

(I heard a rumour they filmed 13 thousand of these videos back to back. 3,124 cameraman died in the process. Knuckles ate their festering corpses in order to keep going himself, though he left all the fingers. He doesn’t like fingers. That’s just what I heard, anyway.)

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Part 2 of Croteam/Devolver Digital’s crazed Serious Sam 3: BFE Helpline videos is here! And we’re going to post it even though we posted the last one like five minutes ago or something! Because it’s very funny! And it contains the much-speculated-upon answer to how one man can carry so many cannonballs! Have a good evening!(more…)

How many trailers manage to accurately convey a design philosophy while also being pretty damn funny? I’ve done some swift calculations on my abaci and mathomancy tells me that the correct answer is this one for Serious Sam 3: BFE. Despite pouring scorn on so many modern gaming conventions, the whole thing is so gleeful that it doesn’t seem spiteful, just completely and incurably insane.

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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!

Your daily quota of "charging beasts being ripped asunder by projectile saw blades" is about to be filled, as the latest trailer for Serious Sam 3: BFE is jam-packed with just such scenes. Quit being unfulfilled and take a look!

Croteam have revealed the release date for Serious Sam 3: BFE. It shall be with us on the 18th October, and you can pre-order it now soon on Steam, GetGames, and so on. Should you? Well, take a look at the new in-game trailer below to get an idea.

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It shouldn't be too surprising to hear Serious Sam 3 is totally nuts. Playing is a simple pleasure. Run like crazy and kill things as fast as you can with big guns. Guys with bombs for hands, leaping skeletons and mechanized monsters relentlessly attack, and you've got to keep your ammo count up and...

There's a GIANT SCORPION MAN THING in it for you.

Now that Serious Sam 3: BFE features split-screen support, we're seriously interested in these screens direct from Gamescom. Haha, get it? "Seriously?" It's a joke! Sometimes we really crack ourselves -- OH GOD WHAT IS THAT GIANT SCORPION MAN THING?!

I can still hear the screaming headless kamikaze. That’s not a twee little aphorism. Despite the fact that I’m no longer playing the game, I can still hear the incessant roaring scream of the droves and droves of bomb-wielding suicidal maniacs charging toward me, somewhere inside my brain. I hope it goes away soon, because this would be no way to live.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is the first place in the world to have been given a few levels of Serious Sam 3: BFE to play with, and I’ve now killed and been killed within them an awful lot. Let me tell you all about it.

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Croteam, the folks behind the upcoming Serious Sam 3: BFE, must be seriously crazy about nostalgia, because they've decided to include something that might have been better left in the evolutionary dustbin of PC gaming: 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 happen to be up to, helping or hampering them as you will. Check the screens below to see what all the chaos will look like.

Croteam, the folks behind the upcoming Serious Sam 3: BFE, must be seriously crazy about nostalgia, because they've decided to include something that was probably better left in the evolutionary dustbin of PC gaming: 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 spot your friends' map placement on their section of the screen, and then murder them unfairly -- or help them, we guess, if you're in co-op. Check the screens below to see what all the chaos will look like.

Croteam, the folks behind the upcoming Serious Sam 3: BFE, must be seriously crazy about nostalgia, because they've decided to include something that was probably better left in the evolutionary dustbin of PC gaming: 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 spot your friends' map placement on their section of the screen, and then murder them unfairly -- or help them, we guess, if you're in co-op. Check the screens below to see what all the chaos will look like.

The fans, they demanded of Croteam that Serious Sam 3: BFE feature four-player splitscreen play. And so it came to pass. RPS can exclusively reveal that the forthcoming ultro-shooter will allow you to gather around a PC monitor with your chums and FIGHT. Up to three gamepads can be used alongside one mouse and keyboard to have four-player multiplayer and co-op. You can see full-size screens below.

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As you already know so well, the forthcoming release of Serious Sam 3: BFE is being accompanied by some specially commissioned indie games based on the Sam license. Already out is the demo for Kamikaze Attack, and coming soon is Serious Sam Double D. We have ourselves an almost-finished copy of that game, so I’m going to describe the first couple of stages to you in things called words and pictures.

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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!

A rather silly email appears alerting us to the shock news that Croteam’s Lead In-Game Wall Graffiti Artist, Davor Kovač, has quit the company midway through the development of Serious Sam 3: BFE, “to pursue his dream of being quoted in a rushed press release”. So now the team are asking players to come up with the nonsense that will appear on the game’s walls.

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Battle Creek, Michigan In preparation for the launch of Serious Sam 3: BFE, Mental's Horde (NYSE: MNTL) has announced a plan to fill more than five billion henchmen positions that have opened up since the release of Serious Sam HD. While admitting company morale is low after a decade of defeat at...

#watchthis And here I thought the headless kamikaze's in the Serious Sam series were unwilling test subjects. Turns out they're normal folk, just like you and me, only without heads. Oh, and their hands are bombs. More »

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.

The screaming menace of Serious Sam gets a chance to tell his own side of the story.

Here’s something you’re seeing here first. A new trailer for Serious Sam 3 BFE, following the life of one of the game’s many headless kamikazes. Because that’s the correct way to trail an old-school shooter – a documentary about a headless man with bombs for hands. We’re all agreed on that. So head below to take a world exclusive peek at the new video.

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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.

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 out amongst some ruins in a desert.

Serious Sam 3: BFE is made by a team of less than 20 people. As you'd expect it's not a mind-blowing graphical powerhouse, nor is it full of revolutionary new gameplay mechanics. No, Serious Sam is unapologetically old school, a throwback to the days when stories were less important to shooters than...

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!

This summer, the fate of humanity is in your hands. Showcasing early gameplay!

#watchthis The first trailer for Croteam and Devolver Digital's Serious Sam 3: BFE has exactly what you'd expect from a Serious Sam game: guns a-blazin', alien invaders, screen splattering gore and a total disregard for taking cover. More »