It’s nice to see classic games be given a new lease on life and that’s what’s happening to Serious Sam.
The old classic shooter has been given an HD face lift and will be available on XBox Live Arcade by late Summer.
From the release:
Legions of long-time fans and a whole new generation of gamers around the world can now experience serious shooting mayhem as Majesco Europe, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced that Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is coming to Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from …read more

I LOVE zombies. If I had thought about it at the time, when asked pirates or ninjas, I should have said zombies.
So, it warms my zombie loving heart to see that Konami is releasing Zombie Apocalypse for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network this summer.
Zombie Apocalypse tasks up to four players with killing [re-killing?] as many zombies as they can so that the world is saved from the brain-eating bad guys.
If you fail at your task, you become one of the undead so make sure that you kick some zombie ass or you’ll end up having brains for …read more

The hoax that birthed “the first Mega Man 9 screenshot” went over with the fandom like a poop sandwich, but it looks like the August issue of Nintendo Power has the first real screenshots. Kombo has the story and The Mega Man Network has the pretty pictures, though the latter’s slow because of a traffic kablooey.
Word already has it that this will be a PSN and Xbox Live Arcade download, though what’s definitely confirmed is Mega Man 9’s status as a WiiWare download. Zounds!

Everyone was tres excited when they first heard about downloadable games for the Virtual Console, Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network. Now that the idea’s in full swing, the roar of approval has turned into more of a purr of half-contentment. We like the idea behind downloadable games and there are indeed some good ones to be had, but overall the pickings haven’t been all the awesome they can be.
The good news is, downloadable content will be receiving a vitamin shot thanks to Square-Enix’s contribution of PSOne classics to the Playstation Network. The bad news is, it’s only happening …read more