If your typical San Francisco convention-goer is cruising for anything when he’s in town, he’s probably up in the Tenderloin scouting tranny hookers. Not Fork Parker. The CEO spokesmascot for Devolver Digital (publishers of Serious Sam) will be trawling SoMa outside the Moscone Center in that there bus, listening to new pitches for the next great indie game.
Mike Wilson, he of Ion Storm, Gamecock, Gathering of Developers and Devolver Digital video game company founding fame, is also the star and producer of Austin High, a “goofball stoner comedy” that has nothing to do with video games (I think) and everything to do with joints and bongs and slackerdom.
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.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter comes out sometime in early 2010, Croteam and Devolver Digital announced today. I was going to make a pun, but the title of the game sort of precludes puns.
CDV Software and Majesco are giving players a chance to put their words in Serious Sam’s mouth, with the Serious Tweet contest.
Today’s announcement of Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD for Xbox Live Arcade had a hidden bonus announcement buried within, the existence of Devolver Digital. That’s the new production company from the founders of the extinct Gamecock and G.O.D.