Get ready to kick some serious extraterrestrial behinds in full HD glory as Majesco along with Devolver Digital and Serious Sam creators Croteam release an epic trailer of the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game Serious Sam: The First Encounter. The game, a remake of the original title, is being developed on Croteam's proprietary Serious Engine 3 and based on the video after the link, Serious Sam HD is looking quite lovely.

It's been a while since we heard anything of Croteam's Serious Sam 3 title, but now that we do, we find out that it will not be having the same old classic, cartoony look it was well-known for. This much we can confirm as Croteam themselves made it known to the gaming world via Eurogamer.

Serious Sam creators Croteam, along with Devolver Digital and Majesco, are bringing Sam "Serious" Stone's first adventure -- Serious Sam: The First Encounter -- to XBLA sporting some seriously upgraded HD graphics.

Croteam, developers of the Serious Sam series, has given word that they have teamed up with Gamecock Media Group for their next project. Gamecock will be publishing the next Croteam game which is being developed on the Serious Engine 3.

Croteam's CEO Roman Ribaric spoke on their choice of publisher and why they decided to go with Gamecock.

The Gamecock team includes some of the best people we've worked with in our 14 years of game development.We had a great time and learned a lot when we worked together to produce the first Serious Sam and we are confident that we will achieve similar success this time around.

The company's next venture looks really good based on their background and the engine that they'll be using for the game. The Serious Engine 3 is the proprietary "game creation system" of Croteam and was billed to be designed for next-generation consoles and state-of-the art PC hardware.

The system is said to be able to take advantage of multi-core HDR-rendering graphics systems complete with full per-pixel lighting, shadowing, and shadowbuffers. It also has a custom GPU-accelerated baker for GI lightmaps, multi-threaded physics solver for multicore CPUs, and even built-in support for action-game models.

CEO and Head of Marketing for Gamecock Media Group Mike Wilson commented about the Serious Engine 3 and Croteam's prospective future in the gaming industry saying that "now, with its next-gen engine pushing the latest gaming hardware to the limits of its potential, Croteam is producing a game that will confirm its position among the world's game development elite".

This new game is slated to be released this 2009 on the PC and next-gen consoles. This may be something to look out for, considering the lovely screenshot demos they've produced with the said engine. Be sure to check back for more details on this game.