All Articles: Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat koming to PS Vita this Spring

Posted on January 17, 2012 by John Scalzo

After it’s incredibly awesome rebirth on the PS3 and Xbox 360 last year, WB Games and NetherRealm Studios are now bringing Mortal Kombat to the PlayStation Vita this Spring.

“The NetherRealm team is committed to making sure that we follow up the success of 2011’s Mortal Kombat with an equally compelling experience on the PlayStation Vita,” said Ed Boon, Creative Director, NetherRealm Studios. “The original game content and new features we developed for the PlayStation Vita will provide gamers with the best fighting game experience available on the new mobile platform.”

Not only will Mortal Kombat on the Vita be the same gore-filled game that appeared on the PS3/Xbox 360, but it’ll also include several Vita-exclusive features. According to NetherRealm, they’ll be announced in the next few months.

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Nominees for 2012 Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Videogame Writing announced

Posted on January 12, 2012 by John Scalzo

The Writers Guild of America has announced the five nominees who will battle it out for this year’s Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing.

The Assassin’s Creed team at Ubisoft is once again up for a Writers GUild Award thanks to their work on Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. The previous game in the series, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, won the award last year.

The writing teams behind Batman: Arkham City, Brink, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, and Mortal Kombat have also been nominated for the Writers Guild Award.

Turning the Mortal Kombat mythos into a coherent story was quite a feat, so I’m pulling for the team at NetherRealm Studios.

You can see the complete list of nominated writers after the break and check back on February 19 to find out who won. (more…)

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Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition kills the kompetition on February 28

Posted on January 9, 2012 by John Scalzo

We all suspected it was koming, but today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment made the Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition official.

Mortal Kombat: Komplete will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 28, presumably for a bargain price. The package will include the original, award-winning game that was first released in April 2011, all four DLC characters (Skarlet, Kenshi, Rain, and Freddy Krueger), 15 Klassic Skins and three Klassic Fatalities (Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile).

If that weren’t enough, the box will also include a download code for a digital copy of the “Mortal Kombat: Songs Inspired by the Warriors” soundtrack album and the 1995 Mortal Kombat film.

Awesomeality!

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The Golden Pixel Awards 2011: Gaming’s Best, Worst, and Everything Else

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Warp Zoned Staff

Welcome to Warp Zoned’s first ever Golden Pixel Awards. Sit back and relax as we reward the best (and worst) games of 2011 with accolades based on their rather unique accomplishments.

The Apocalypse List

The bombs have fallen, the zombies have horded, food is scarce, and you’ve boarded yourself up in a bunker that’ll stand for a hundred years. What better way to spend your time in “The Vault” than by playing Warp Zoned’s favorite games from 2011? It doesn’t matter if you call it a “Top Ten List” or “Our Favorites From 2011,” but these are the games we plan to keep playing even if there was no game industry to keep making games. (more…)

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NetherRealm NOT putting the Mortal Kombat franchise on hiatus

Posted on December 13, 2011 by John Scalzo

Ed Boon dropped a bombshell when accepting the award for Best Fighting Game at last weekend’s Spike TV Video Game Awards. He told GameSpot that the studio had completed their work on DLC for Mortal Kombat and that they were putting the franchise on hiatus to work on other projects.

However, that appears to not be the case. Instead, the famed developer has revealed, via his Twitter account, that NetherRealm Studios will begin a two-pronged development schedule, working on the next Mortal Kombat game (which, per a WB Games profile in the LA Times, will be released in 2013) and other non-Mortal Kombat projects:

NetherRealm’s most recent game, Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, was added to the iTunes App Store last week.

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WB working on new Mortal Kombat movie for 2013

Posted on September 30, 2011 by John Scalzo

WB Games is having a practically “flawless” year and it looks like it’ll only get better with the announcement that a third Mortal Kombat movie is in development.

The currently untitled film will begin production next year under the watchful eye of director Kevin Tancharoen and writer Oren Uziel. If you’ll recall, Tancharoen was responsible for the gritty Mortal Kombat: Rebirth short film, which spawned this year’s Mortal Kombat: Legacy webseries. While Legacy was a mostly faithful retelling of the Mortal Kombat mythos, the new film will offer a more “realistic take” on the franchise when its released in 2013.

In addition to the new film, New Line Cinema President Toby Emmerich and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment President Kevin Tsujihara believe that the next game in the series (the currently untitled Mortal Kombat 10) will launch alongside the movie in 2013.

[Source: Los Angeles Times]

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Mortal Kombat becomes best-selling game in series history

Posted on September 15, 2011 by John Scalzo

Mortal Kombat has had a nice little run since its April release. There’s been good reviews, a good reception from the gaming public and good sales. How good? With three million copies sold worldwide, the PS3 and Xbox 360 title has become the best-selling entry in the entire Mortal Kombat series.

“All of us at NetherRealm Studios are very excited that players have embraced Mortal Kombat. The game was a labor of love for us and we could not be more pleased with its performance,” said Ed Boon, Creative Director, NetherRealm Studios. “Fan reaction to this latest installment has made all of our hard work worth it.”

So what are you waiting for Ed Boon? Bring on Mortal Kombat 10!

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NCAA Football 12 is the valedictorian of July’s NPD chart

Posted on August 12, 2011 by John Scalzo

The NPD Group has revealed the top ten bestselling games for the month of July and NCAA Football 12 jumped to the head of the class. None of the rest of the month’s new releases managed to crack the list (including the awesome Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon or the alluring Catherine). Even the heavily-hyped Duke Nukem Forever was unable to maintain its place in the top ten.

With few new releases, only 17 titles were released during the month, gamers spent their money on other things in July. According to The NPD Group’s Anita Frazier, July was the “lowest month [for game sales] since October 2006.”

Maybe that’ll show publishers that the gaming community is pretty desperate for new games in the Summer. So maybe they shouldn’t backload every worthwhile game into the September-November period. In the meantime, check out the full top ten after the break. (more…)

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