GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When Serious Sam: The First Encounter quietly appeared in 2001, it was a real breath of fresh air. The game delivered fantastic-looking, incredibly ...

Sure, it's a bit of a bummer that Serious Sam 4 has been delayed until September. We were all looking forward to blowing up headless extra dimensional monsters with a shotgun, just like any ...

Chetan Shekar is a marketing professional from Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India. His favorite games include Half-Life, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Warcraft, Starcraft, Darkstalkers, Marvel ...

An award-winning author with over 10+ years of writing experience, Allie has a deep appreciation for the unique kinds of stories only seen in anime and manga. Serious Sam has been a series of shooter ...

Serious Sam, Croteam's massively over-the-top first-person shooter series, is 20 years old this week, and the developer has surprised fans by launching a substantial free update for Serious Sam 2 on ...

Scott just graduated from Law School. But he didn't let that stop him from gaming, a hobby that he has stuck with ever since he received his NES at age 5. His favorites are Metal Gear Solid, OutRun, ...

It was probably around midnight when I heard the door to my office softly shut behind me. My partner, as it turns out, had hit her limit on the amount of yelling she could tolerate. There had been a ...

A big difference from Croteam’s first VR game, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope (2017), is the inclusion of artificial locomotion so you can explore the game’s expansive levels in the same vein as ...

Writer Jonas Kyratzes says Croteam is leaning more heavily into the narrative side of its flagship shooter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The Xbox version retains the original games' off-the-chart intensity levels, and Serious Sam--which was always an arcade game at heart--feels right at home on Microsoft's powerful console. Serious Sam ...

"Dumb fun" is easy to take for granted. There's a natural tendency to assume that any game which favours action over depth is working at this level, but that underestimates just how smart game design ...

It's been more than three years after the debut of the Game Boy Advance hardware, and we're well beyond the novelty of seeing first-person shooters on the system. After well more than a half-dozen ...