Trial versions of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter remain available on Xbox Live Arcade.
Serious Sam 3: BFE – sometime after October 2015.Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter – between September and October 2015.Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter – by January 17th, 2015.According to captures by the titles were approximately delisted by the following dates: The titles in The Serious Sam Collection remained available as individual downloads until Mastertronic Group went into Administration in November of 2015. All editions were released in late July of 2013.
The physical edition was released in the US by Maximum Games. The collection was again released digitally and at retail in Europe and Australia by Mastertronic Group. Later that year the two publishers released The Serious Sam Collection featuring The First and Second Encounters, Serious Sam 3: BFE and Serious Sam Double D XXL. Devolver and Mastertronic continued working together to release digital versions of Serious Sam 3: BFE and Serious Sam Double D XXL on Xbox Live Arcade and PC in 2013. By early 2011 Majesco was no longer involved in publishing Serious Sam titles.ĭevolver Digital moved on to work with Mastertronic Group to bring Serious Sam HD: The First & Second Encounters to both digital (US, EU) and retail (AU, EU) release in late March of 2011. Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter was released on September 22nd, 2010 again by Majesco and Devolver Digital. The original announcement called for a “late summer 2009” release but the game was pushed back to January 13th, 2010 for both the US and Europe. On June 25th, 2009 Majesco Entertainment announced that they would be publishing Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter for Xbox 360 “in partnership” with a fledgling Devolver Digital.
The ‘Serious Sam’ Series Delisting Mega Story The game was delisted as Mastertronic Group went into Administration in November of 2015. It was included in the The Serious Sam Collection which is also delisted in digital form. Serious Sam 3: BFE was delisted from Xbox Live Arcade some time after October of 2015. Mastertronic Group (Digital, EU/AU Retail)