A chunk of the indie gaming sector observed the Xbox One presentation (either live or secondhand, via channels like Twitter) with a sense of disappointment. Given that Sony's PlayStation 4 unveiling put game development at the forefront to the point that indie darling Jonathan Blow was given a forum to speak, some indie developers had hoped for more from the Xbox One event.

With a new console generation came hopes that Microsoft would relax their strict standards for indie developers, who currently must have a publisher in order to see their product on a Microsoft console. That does not appear to be the case.

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Serious Sam Double D was the titular character's first venture into 2D space and he arrived with guns blazing. Unfortunately, the accompanying Xbox Live Arcade version never saw the light of day. That's not to say developer Mommy's Best Games wasn't serious about bringing Sam Stone to XBLA. A year and a half later, Serious Sam's 2D adventure is finally set to release as Serious Sam Double D XXL. Mommy's Best Games founder Nathan Fouts explained the reasons for the delays.

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If stacking guns on top of each other to create a teetering supergun sounds like your bag, but you'd also like a little company, good news! The long-overdue Xbox Live Arcade edition of Serious Sam Double D is coming on February 20, packing a shiny co-op mode and more than 30 new guns to pile up.

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Though Serious Sam 3 launched on PC last November, Croteam was curiously silent about its crazy FPS's promised console editions until yesterday. It'll arrive on Xbox Live Arcade this fall alongside a revamped version of indie tie-in Serious Sam Double D, but there's still no word on PS3 releases.

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Microsoft has long squandered the wealth of gaming in Xbox Live Indie Games by hiding the user-submitted titles away, but the recent dashboard update buried them even deeper. Inspired by the cack-handed categorizing, Mommy's Best Games--maker of Serious Sam Double D and several XBLIG titles--has released parodic arcade shooter Game Type to send up the new dashboard.

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This past week, the winners of Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play competition were announced, with the $40,000 grand prize going to a puzzle-platformer called Blocks That Matter by Guillaume Martin. Inspired by Tetris and Minecraft, Blocks That Matter is about a robot called Tetrobot, created by "fictional" inventors "Alexey and Markus"--get it? After the developers are kidnapped, it's up to the intrepid robot to save its masters. Navigating the game's puzzling levels requires the use of Tetrobot's special ability to absorb blocks made of different materials and use them to produce tetragrams.

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Serious Sam Double D has gotten a release date, and it's probably coming sooner than you expected. Mommy's Best Games, Devolver Digital and Croteam sent out a joint press release today, announcing that the game will hit the PC next Tuesday, August 30. It will be priced at $7.99. Release plans for the previously announced Xbox 360 version weren't disclosed.

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This week in indie gaming brought with it another round of insightful interviews, including chats with Nathan Fouts (Mommy's Best Games) and Alex Holowka (Infinite Ammo) about their upcoming games--Serious Sam Double D and Marian, respectively. To put it another way, fans of Explosionade and Aquaria can get an interesting peek into how the talented developers each work their magic. Interabang Entertainment rounds things out with some words about developing Super Comboman at the first Indie Open House.

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