Is it 1994 all over again, because Mortal Kombat seems more popular in the last three days than it’s been in the last 10 years. Today we saw the trailer for the next MK game, which looks to return the serious to the comical violence of old. And while that’s kept us in a blood-soaked tizzy, the excitement really began with this video, cryptically released on YouTube as Mortal Kombat Rebirth two days ago. Slowly but surely the truth trickled out on what exactly this was, but only now has film site Collider gotten the whole story from the video’s director, Kevin Tancharoen...
We get a lot of emails. Most of the time, they’re press releases for new trailers, screenshots, release dates, and iPhone games we’ll never play. But sometimes we get something extra special, like the following photographs of a body builder who is as passionate about videogames and anime as she is about fitness.
Tanya “MsTooney” Jordan is a self-proclaimed geek. Dressed in her Kitana outfit, Jordan destroyed the competition at this year’s Ms Fitness Southern California event with a pole routine that incorporated gymnastics and martial arts…
The relationship between games and movies has always been a tense one. There's something almost violently alchemical about the way the two media usually react to each other. It's like getting hit by a yellow, piss-soaked snowball. Either element can be unpleasant enough on its own, but put them both together and something far more horrible happens.
Games of movies, movies of games, they're both usually about as much fun as the death of a clown at a ten year-old's birthday party. But still we
Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has explained that his next game is "going to be a real serious Mortal Kombat" in a recent interview. Speaking about what's coming after Armageddon with us earlier in the week, he said the new title will be "a lot more realistic-looking... we're not going to joke around in this one, it's not going to be like jokes."
It suggests a more edgy style for the next Mortal Kombat game, Boon reaffirming that it'll be "a lot grittier, dirtier" than previous titles in the
It's hard to imagine a world where seven poorly animated, grisly voiced combatants could stir a nation into a videogame violence feeding frenzy. Since that original Mortal Kombat, we've ripped out hearts, beaten people to death with their own legs and uppercutted punk asses into whirling, toothy blades of steel - and not one game has ever been pulled from the shelves like congress was threatening 13 years ago.
To celebrate this victory in the face of such powerful ignorance, we've compiled
In a press release the rest of the world will get tomorrow, publisher Midway has announced four different Premium Packs for the PS2 version of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. Retailing at $49.95, three of the higher-end limited editions of the game will ship with different embossed, metallic covers that feature paired characters Sindel and Shao Kahn; Kano and Sonya; and Johnny Cage and Goro. The fourth edition's box art will be identical to that of the "regular" edition of the game (the MK logo),
We've got a lovely two-minute video montage of the Mortal Kombat to literally end all Mortal Kombat games - the forthcoming Armageddon. The brawler ties up loose ends from over a decade of fighting games and brings the series' plot to an end; it's due in October.
Midway's giving gamers everything they've ever wanted in the final game: a fighter creator which lets you piece together famous fighting moves into your own personal style, a single-player Konquest mode (which has been shortened and
