If you want some hot wet bot action to go with your game of Serious Sam, there is a new version of Serious Boot which will indeed add bots to the game. Alpha version though, so things might not be great.

Croteam's Davor Hunski has been interviewed on FPP News, answering questions about Serious Sam and The Second Encounter. There are questions about what he does for Croteam, how long it took to create the original Serious Sam, how many people were working on the first game and how many on the second, the biggest change in the new game, multiplayer gamemodes and a few other things. Thanks Blues News.

If you haven't seen enough screenshots from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter yet, there are more on the Seriously fansite of 3DAP.

PC.IGN has posted two new movies from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, showing off more from Croteam's upcoming FPS. Three more movies are available, but only if you're an IGN Insider.

The Croteam site has a small fix available for the just released Serious Sam: The Second Encounter demo, fixing a problem for people who who want to run a dedicated server. It's a tiny 4kb script download.

Fileplanet and Gigex are now hosting the demo of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, which is a 111mb download. It contains one singleplayer level which can also be played in coop mode, as well as a multiplayer level and a tech demo map. Saw that on Blues News.

The Croteam website has been updated again with a Serious Monday update. It's mentioned a new Release Candidate of The Second Encounter has been shipped off to Take 2, and a demo of the game should be available online soon. After The Second Encounter, they'll start work on The Gold Encounter, which not surprising contains the first and the second game along with a few extras.

3D Action Planet's Serious Sam site has an interview up with Alen Ladavac of Croteam, asking him some more questions about their upcoming Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Q&As on how 2 compares to the first, if mods will be easier, if there are more multiplayer modes and models, if Croteam plans to do anything non-FPS related, and a few other things.

The promised Serious Sam DirectX8 patch has now been released on the Croteam website. The patch is a mere 5.5mb and adds DirectX8 support, support for ATI's TruForm, iFeel mouse support, better mod support in the Serious Editor and several other features.

Tolstiy's Place has updated with a Serious Sam interview. Michael "Tolstiy" Kabanov chats with Damjan Mravunac of Croteam about the upcoming Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. There are Q&As on the engine, the lack of Egypt levels in the second game, what things are new, changes to the sound engine and various other topics related to the game.

The official Serious Sam website has now opened, with the latest info, screenshots and a trailer from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.

PC Game Central is the latest site to have a chat with the boys at Croteam, currently working on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. There are Q&As on what the new game is all about, engine enhancements, new multiplayer modes, if SS2 is any harder than the original and a few other things.

The Croteam website has been updated with word that a new Serious Sam beta patch is coming out soon, which will support DirectX8 and ATI's Trueform. There's a list of problems that some cards might have with this patch, but you should be fine if you have a GeForce card. The patch should be out this week.

The Croteam website has been updated again with the latest on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. A new build has been shipped to Take 2, with the bug list getting shorter and shorter every time. Thanks Blue.

The 3D Action Planet Serious Sam site has posted 10 more Serious Sam 2 screenshots. They're a mix of ingame and editor screenshots.