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Our Croteam Incubator gem Battle Bolts has just been updated with some cool new features to make your strategic tank-battling even more fun. With a brand new game mode and some new tanks, along with some community requested features, this is the biggest update Battle Bolts has gotten since leaving Early Access.

The new game mode in question is Racing. The goal of this fun new mode is to end each turn on a highlighted tile, while using all traditional mechanics to prevent the opponent from doing so. The tank racing takes place on three custom racing arenas – Shifty Lanes, Crossroads and Drive-thru. Complementary to the new game mode are two brand new tanks – Ranger and Medusa – both equipped with unique front and side abilities.

For a full list of changes be sure to check out the official changelog.

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This weekend, get ready to go in deep because the new SCUM update is live and ready for you to check it out. The absolute highlight of this update is a brand new diving mechanic. Gamepires have added some diving gear to the game, which will allow you to explore the underwater world and soak in all its beauties.

If you’re not one for deep sea exploration and shootin’ stuff is your primary concern, worry not – the new SCUM update introduces a rare M82 recoil-operated, semi-automatic anti-material sniper rifle bound to blast some fools to oblivion. The rifle is only available in military bases, so getting it will be a high-risk-high-reward adventure.

Oh, this patch will also allow you to make your own little Frankenstein, but we’ll let you find out more about that in the full changelog available on Steam.

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Check out this epic Serious Sam Fusion mod – Red Day: Episode One. It’s a custom campaign mod telling a story about Sam’s war against the Mental forces in Russia.

The highlight of this Serious Sam Fusion mod is a three-part, 50-minute long campaign set in a typical Russian provincial city Muhogradsk. The Red Day campaing is full of chaos and crazy arena-style action spaning over three custom levels, with cutscenes and everything you’d expect from a full-blown campaign. Oh, and there’s a brand new soundtrack, as well so make sure you check it out on Steam and let us know what you think.

Massive thanks to the powerful Dead_Kadath for making this mod happen.

Our community has always been big on modifying Serious Sam and The Talos Principle to their liking, so we thought it’s long overdue giving them mad props for all the creative work they do. This is why we have decided to periodically feature some of those mods on our channels and get more people in on the action.

Are you making Serious Sam or The Talos Principle mods yourself? Let us know, we’d love to check them out.

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Hey everyone! Our partners in crime from 2×2 Games have released another one of their brilliant dev diaries, this time focusing on one of the scenarios you’ll get to experience in our co-production baby Unity of Command II.

Metz 1944: Patton’s 3rd Army stuck in the mud, the air force grounded, and the Germans under orders to hold out at all costs. Sounds like a perfect setting for Chapter 1 of the new Unity of Command II instructional trailer series, don’t you think?

Check out the full blog by following the link below:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/809230/announcements/detail/1618392861327357479

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It’s that time of the year again, the time of Fusion updates. This time, we’re bringing to you a relatively small update focusing mostly on bug fixes and tweaks, rather than new features, engines and other huge changes that were introduced several months ago.

Guided by our community we have made huge progress in providing you with a stable, up-to-date Serious Sam experience, and Fusion is at its peak right now. It’s THE way to play all supported Serious Sam games.

Find the full changelog by clicking here.

We value your input, and we want you to reach out to us with all feedback. For general thoughts and ideas, please use our official Reddit. Should you encounter any issues or bugs with Serious Sam Fusion, please report them on the Tech & Support subforum on Steam.

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Another weekend is upon us, so it’s fitting that we get a brand new SCUM update. This one is huge, with several great additions that will change your life forever*.

First up, there’s a brand new primal Event going on in the SCUM world, so get ready to jump in for some Deathmatch action. To make things even better, Gamepires have increased the number of fame points gained throughout the whole event. Go make history!

If you’re not up for man-on-man action, jump onto a shiny new Quad Bike that that will seat up to 2 people and make your off-road adventures super enjoyable, especially paired with the reworked cooking system that will bring up the survival chef in you.

There are other cool stuff in this update, as well. Stuff like new achievements and item degradation, so be sure to check out the full changelog by following the link below.

https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791456533850/announcements/detail/1620644023164950631

*Changes might not change your life forever.

It seems like it was yesterday when SCUM launched to Steam Early Access, mainly because we’re still as excited about it as much as we were when Gamepires presented their vision to us for the first time. How could we not be? It just keeps getting better with god knows how many updates after the initial launch.

Another huge update was released yesterday, even though it wasn’t Friday (get your s**t together, Gamepires). This one brings many of the things the community has asked for including achievements, some new weapons and attachments, improvised beds and “a new place of happiness and joy” for you to go and have fun in.

As ever, the new update is full of various bugs and fixes, so be sure to check out the full change log by following the link below. There’s even a brand new SCUM comic page, so click now. ⬇️

http://steamcommunity.com/games/513710/announcements/detail/1651042050389792650

With Reboot Develop Blue 2019 fast approaching, we’re once again getting ready for the biggest and craziest game developers conference in Europe. As every year, Croteam will be omnipresent with many talks, chats, and panels being held by our veterans and up-and-coming star developers alike.

This year we’re proud to be sponsoring a dedicated tech stage with talks by high-level engineers from all over the world sharing their vast knowledge. Our CTO Alen Ladavac will talk about the myths and misconceptions of frame pacing, explaining what it is that causes micro-stuttering we all so passionately hate in video games.

On the same stage, our engineer extraordinaire Karlo Jež will be joined by Alon Or-bach of Samsung Electronics to talk about Vulkan API, while Luka Hrabar and Robert Sajko will share info on huge GPU-based procedurally generated terrains in Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass.

On other stages, our Ante Vrdelja will chat about networking in video games, while Davor Tomicic and Nika Dvoravic will share knowledge on what their game and environment design are made of. Elsewhere, our composer Damjan Mravunac will talk about – you guessed it – making music and sound effects.

Hopefully, we’ll see some of you in Dubrovnik. If not, some of the talks will be recorded so you can watch them from the comfort of your own home. Albeit, that won’t include cocktails and the beautiful seaside.

It’s yet another happy day at Croteam as we are thrilled to announce the launch of Serious Sam: Tormental via Steam Early Access. Tormental is made by Gungrounds as part of our Croteam Incubator division.

Serious Sam: Tormental is a rogue-lite twin-stick shooter where players embark on a journey through the tormented mind of a demigod of destruction – Mental. You will face Mental’s wicked imaginations and roam dark dungeons, beating various challenges and discovering secrets on the way.

The game is fully playable solo or with a friend in couch co-op and features four playable characters, with three different worlds and randomly generated areas that offer infinite replayability. In future updates planned for the weeks and months to come, Gungrounds is planning new perks, areas, characters and more.

For more info be sure to jump over to Steam, and feel free to come over to our official Discord where the dev team will spend many sleeples nights. We might even have a community giveaway in store soon, to celebrate the launch. See you there!

It’s no secret that we’ve recently partnered up with Croatian game-dev veterans and our friends over at 2×2 Games to create Unity of Command II. 

Good news: the game is progressing swimmingly and according to plan! Tom Uzelac, the lead designer, has done a good job with documenting the progress so far. His blogs (or Development Diaries) have a cult following of their own in the wargaming community. 

Even if you never read those blogs, check out the latest entry, as Tom turns a new leaf and decides to focus more on the game itself instead of lamenting the process. 

En Route to Rouen entry explains some of the most interesting new mechanics in Unity of Command II, such as dealing with enemy prisoners, gathering intel and piercing the fog of war to locate hidden enemy units. Pretty screenshots, too! 

Advance to Rouen by clicking here.

It’s a happy day today, as The Talos Principle is getting the long-awaited engine upgrade we’ve been talking about ever since we launched Serious Sam Fusion. This update is very similar to the one we pushed to open beta a few weeks ago, but also fixes most of the things that were reported during the weeks that followed.

The highlights of the update are Tobii Eye Tracking and DX12 support, as well as further Vulkan tweaks.

We have worked closely with our friends from Tobii to implement exciting eye tracking features like Jam at Gaze, Connect at Gaze and Pick up at Gaze. Those features allow you to be more efficient in your problem solving adventures, while the Extended View feature and Clean UI improve your immersion in Talos’ world of puzzles and philosophy.

To celebrate this launch Tobii is about to have a cool contest, so be sure to jump on their Twitter page, give them a follow and await further instructions.

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