Majesco Europe has announced that Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade this summer. Developed by Croteam, the creators of the Serious Sam franchise, and produced in partnership with Devolver Digital, the game has been re-tooled and re-vamped in glorious High Definition with an all-new version of the CroTech engine.

“We are really excited to update our hero and recreate Sam in stunning high definition for Xbox LIVE Arcade players,” said Roman Ribaric, CEO of Croteam. “The fans have lobbied us hard to do this, so we are stoked about bringing Sam back as big, bold and bad as he ever was.”

You can check out first images of the title in action right here.

The game is being produced by Devolver Digital, a brand new production and publishing company based in Austin, Texas. “We are almost inappropriately excited that this fun and robust game is our first humble offering to gamers worldwide,” said an unnamed, masked spokesperson for Devolver Digital. “And bridging the gap between the fine folks at Croteam and Majesco feels good too. It’s a long way from Croatia to New Jersey, but worth the walk.”

And finally, here’s a rather unique description of the game from the presser:

Serious Sam HD is not your mother’s generic, large-scale, orchestral scored, Space Marine-themed epic FPS with dialogue that pretends it’s an RPG…instead, Serious Sam HD is a grab you by the jibblies run and gun, twitch FPS: BIG guns, TONS of enemies, 4-Player Online Co-Op and stunningly superfluous HD graphics that rival retail boxed games. You’ve waited forever but Serious Sam is back from the nether with its award-winning game play that will remind you why you play FPSs in the first place.

Sweet.