Serious Sam HD is This Coming Week's XBLA Release

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Dan Webb

If I had a pound for every time I've been asked when Serious Sam HD was heading to the Xbox Live Arcade since Christmas, I'd have at least £7. Finally, we can give you a definitive answer on that.

According to Dan Maher's (AKA MyPointyHead) stand-in on this week's SentUAMessage, MSN Tech & Gadgets' Jane Douglas, Serious Sam is heading to the Xbox Live Arcade this coming Wednesday.

Douglas stated, "Serious Sam HD is currently scheduled to be next week's Xbox Live Arcade game, so we'll be releasing on Wednesday 13th, barring any last minute delays."

They also addressed the release date for Joy Ride, which the dev team are apparently still working on. Simply put, no news, it's coming in 2010 when it's good and ready.

Either way, Serious Sam HD is coming this Wednesday and will be available for purchase for 1,200 Microsoft points. Can't be bad. All we need now is a Perfect Dark release date and my inbox can calm down a little, but only a little.

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  • never played a serious same game, will check out the demo.
  • Meh, only really want Joyride. Saving my money for loads of games this year. Plus plan on blowing about £70 on Tropico 3 and Dragon Age: Origins tomorrow.
  • Im hopping for 800 msp instead of 1200 msp since its on sale this week on steam for $6.79 USD.
  • That's awesome, but what about DooM II and Quake Arena?
  • If Serious Sam is 800 msp, I'll seriously consider a purchase. As for Joy Ride, I won't hold my breath for a release date.
  • You know it's going to be 1200MSP - in fact, wasn't it already confirmed as 1200? I'm sure I've read that somewhere... Either way, I'll definitely be checking this out!
  • @#6 - It is indeed 1,200. LINK I'll edit it in now.
  • whaaat finally screwin about joyride tho
  • It's about time and only 2 months late! They should let us have it for 400MSP for being so darn late.
  • About time. Seriously. xD
  • Serious Sam (it's The First Encounter) remade in HD, plus 4-player co-op is well worth it. I've been waiting since summer for this! :D
  • I've been waiting forever for this!
  • I'll seriously gonna buy this. Screaming Headless Kamikaze Torsos FTW!
  • im going to buy this - im super serious
  • OMFG THANK GOD IVE BEEN WAITING SINCE THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT FOR "LATE SUMMER" I ONLY WISH THIS WAS STILL SUMMER
  • How's aboot some achievo's eh?
  • #16. yes there achievements. seriously, about time, now i need to wait for my pay check before i can get it...
  • Seriously, enough with the 'serious' jokes....all I need is this game and perfect dark and ill be a happy camper
  • I want perfect dark, that game on N64 was ledgendary YELLOW MEN IN MULTIPLAYER!! lol
  • Thanks for making the comments nigh unreadable, #20. If anyone posted something worth reading, I would be more than slightly annoyed! Anyway, this is very cool. I remember playing and enjoying a SS game on the original Xbox. Hopefully this will be a faithful update.
  • Can't wait!
  • The name "Serious Sam" is hilarious.
  • Go to this link it will show the steam achievements and i Think the xbox 360 will have the same ones http://steamcommunity.com/stats/41000/achievements
  • serious sam is feckin hard D: but i might pick this up ^_^ should be a good play
  • At last ! Will try the demo first, never played the game before.
  • From what I've been reading the achievements for this game are the same as on Steam which are just ridiculous. I'll just get the Steam version for $7 bucks this weekend.
  • Loved playing this when it came out on the PC and XBOX, may get this but still waiting on the news on DOOM 2, PERFECT DARK and QUAKE ARENA.....
  • YES! I loves the Serious Sams! And, forgive my obviousness....but now all I need to be happy is Perfect Dark!
  • Is it just the original with updated graphics or is there any new levels or weapons?
  • Oh hell yeah! it's gonna be mine.
  • never played a serious sam game but this looks like mindless fun so i'll try it
  • Pretty keen on this one, used to play the pc one so much.
  • Yay finnally i can buy this ive been waiting since october.
  • The PC version scored pretty badddddd but it's only 6 bucks on Steam this weekend if anyone is interested...Cool that it's 1200 points. PC version was 20$ when it released I believe? Personally I'm going to skip it. Have a lot of games already and still want to get the new Matt Hazard when I have some more points.
  • Cool 1 game down 2 to go. This game will have to wait though. No points right now and I would rather spend them on Perfect Dark. Now how 'bout some news on Joy Ride MS?
  • Ive been waiting for this forever, i got my points ready.
  • Finaly something being released in the arcade that's not crap. Been sittin on these points forever. Now all i need is Perfect dark...
  • Serious Sam HD is only 6 quid on Steam right now if you pass it off for 4 player co-op and 1,200 MS points I dunno xD
  • MS Is so greedy with these arcade titles, charging 1200msp. You know Croteam wanted to charge 400 probably but MS always adds a little somethin' somethin' for themselves.
  • 1200 points are too much.... please help the rest of us by not buying games for more than they are worth- xbla 800 points max
  • Serious Sam was awesome but no way is it worth 1200 points to me. Won't be getting this until it gets a price cut, if it does. Sucks, I was looking forward to this
  • OMFG YES! 8D I love Serious Sam, His games are too funny and the action is plenty.
  • 1200points? WTF
  • 1200 pts is 400 pts too many. im serious when i say sam i am and i will not get serious sam for 1200 pts and i do not like green eggs and ham uncle sam...i do not like them sam just sam i am. have never played serious sam before but i have heard about what its like. i MIGHT pay 1200 for it but thats a BIG might.
  • 1200 is pretty good considering it was (is?) $20 on PC. Its not yet a definite purchase for me, but I'll grab the demo and I'm expecting to like it enough to buy it.
  • Finally. I have my pts ready already as I've been waiting for Serious Sam and Perfect Dark for some time now.
  • 1200 isn't that much for such a grea game is going to be. Trials HD wa on 1200 and look ow good that was!!
  • Where's Perfect Dark?
  • yeah im gonna agree with #4 on this one. when are we gonna get Quake III Arena?!?! that was my fav pc shooter and they've been teasing it for at least a year.. : /
  • It took too long to release this game on XBLA - I have no idea what the hell the dev team was doing. Srsly the PC version was out on Nov. 24th and only on January 13th will the Xbox version come out? That's a joke when you consider the time table the dev team had to work on it. It's simply frustrating.
  • I fail to see why this is worth 15 dollars. The full game was only $20 on gamecube like 6 years ago.
  • Some games are worth the price; Battlefield 1943 was worth the points for sure. But, you would think that a lower more attractive price would = more sales? Bring on Perfect Dark and Joy Ride. I'd gladly pay 1200 points for PD.
  • i used to play serious sam on xbox cn't wait
  • Been waiting for this one since they announced it, wednesday can't come soon enough!
  • i'll pass on serious sam, i've also had the feeling i was playin' duke nukem or heretic....it's gonna get really interesting if they were bringin' out days of the tentacle or hexen or monkey island 2 but no...sigh
  • looks like I might have to pick this up. Also does anybody know what the deal of the week is this week?
  • "barring and last minute delays"
  • Microsoft Points, standing by.
  • Jane Douglas was hot.
  • Bought a bunch of copies of this for xbox 1 from blockbuster back in the day.. $8 each. We played multi-system co-op campaign.. FUN STUFF, but one playthrough was really enough.. it just gets ridiculous.
  • Best mindless FPS ever made. Definately picking this one up.
  • I loved the first one that made fun of indiana jones. If this is the same game in full, then I'll buy it for sure! I'm not a fan of DLC or arcade games but, there is the odd exceptional title like this one!
  • Nice!
  • Mmmm Don't know whether or not to buy this or wait for PDZ >__
  • Is this a new game in the series or just a rehash of 1 or 2 on the pc? If the latter don't bother, get it on pc instead as there are probably still ppl playing this online + there are mods for it.
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