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DC Online Gets Fate of the Fortress Update

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it has launched the fifth content update for its MMO DC Universe Online, called The Fate of the Fortress, allowing players to get their heroes next to characters like Superman, Lex Luthor and other superheroes as they deal with the threat posed by Brainiac. This is the ...

5 October 2011
09:03 GMT

DC Universe Announces Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters

DC Entertainment has announced that it will be working with Warner Bros. in order to create a new superhero video game called Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, which will be launched at the same time as the Green Lantern movie at some point during the summer of 2010. Rise of the Manhunters is being created for t...

27 July 2010
02:01 GMT

What the New Mortal Kombat Should Have Been

The Mortal Kombat series is trying to bring itself back to life, and the first thing it needed was a fresh, new look on the character design. Former Midway employee, artist Vincent Proce is the one that took up pen and paper and started a design project of the new characters of MK. Unfortunately, his ideas got shot d...

20 November 2009
13:31 GMT

Next Mortal Kombat Will Be Online Oriented

Warner Bros. seems to be serious about re-making the Mortal Kombat pretty much from the ground up. The previous Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe offered some nice visuals, interesting fighters and adrenaline-pumping moments, such as the first time when it allowed you to battle another character while falling to your dea...

11 August 2009
07:08 GMT

Quan Chi No Longer Coming to Mortal Kombat

Time has not been kind to the latest entry of the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise, which pitted the heroes and the villains of the universe to those coming from the DC comics universe.The game launched to high expectations, promising new types of combat and complex interactions between characters but did not ma...

9 July 2009
02:52 GMT

Next Mortal Kombat Will Be M Rated

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was a bold undertaking, marrying the unique fighting mechanics of the series with characters, like Superman and Batman, taken from the best selling comics put out by DC Comics. Still, the game, which arrived in the shadow of Street Fighter IV, could not sell enough to save Midway, the co...

24 June 2009
07:59 GMT

Midway Will Be Out of Money by July

It seems that even if it was sold off by its previous owners, Midway is in no better shape when it comes to its finances. The new owner of the company, Acquisition Holdings Subsidiary, has filed some documents estimating that, if the current rate holds in the coming months, Midway could be out of money by July, meani...

15 April 2009
04:28 GMT

Marvel Partners Up with New Company for Marvel Universe MMO

The video game industry has its fair share of heroes and iconic characters that have grasped the imagination of a huge number of gamers around the world. But why spend time and resources when you can just get an already known character or characters from other branches of the entertainment industry and then share the...

17 March 2009
16:01 GMT

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Sells 1.8 Million Copies

Midway Games, one of the companies hardest hit by the world wide economic crisis, is announcing that its title Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has sold more than 1.8 million units since launch. The game is currently available on the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony. It's not clear...

27 January 2009
05:02 GMT

Midway Explains the Layoff of 25 Percent of Staff

Midway will not have a very happy holiday season, as its recent games, Blitz: The League II or Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, haven't really broken sales records. The two titles, although being hyped up and marketed as innovative, weren't met with a lot of anticipation by fans.Also, Midway has seriously bee...

17 December 2008
02:53 GMT

DC Universe Could Arrive in Late 2009

DC Universe, the MMO from Sony Computer Entertainment, has long been in development. A bit of gameplay was revealed this year at E3 and other trade shows but Sony says that no release period has been locked down for the title.Yet, Geoff Johns, who came from DC Comics to give a helping hand with the script of the game...

4 December 2008
12:01 GMT

Midway Has Been Sold for 100,000 Dollars

Publisher and developer Midway has been sold as Sumner Redstone decided to let go of the 87% of the company he owned.The new owner of Midway will be investor Mark Thomas. The price tag for the videogame publisher is an astonishingly low 100,000 dollars, which comes down to about 0.0012 cents for a share of the compan...

2 December 2008
18:11 GMT

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe Goes Gold

Midway is sending word that its upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe fighting game has gone gold and that the release dates have been nailed down for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. In North America, the game will arrive on November 16 while in Europe, players will have to wait until November 21 in order to...

6 November 2008
14:51 GMT

Mortal Kombat vs DC Fatality Changes Detailed

Midway, strapped for cash and after a decision to cut a couple of titles it was developing, really needs Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe to be a hit with players and generate big sales. In an effort to get the game to appeal to as big an audience as possible, the company is pushing really hard to get a T-rating for the...

27 October 2008
17:01 GMT

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe Full Line Up Revealed

Midway has decided that the torture had been going on for long enough and revealed the full list of characters that would appear in the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. The list is interesting and a bit surprising at the same time.The Mortal Kombat roster is filled with familiar faces from the previous games. S...

16 September 2008
08:08 GMT

Top Figures Are Leaving Midway

When a videogaming company hits a rough patch, the earliest signs of trouble, apart from red underlined numbers in financial reports, are news that important people are leaving the company. It happened when Flagship Studios went down and it seems to be happening now to Midway.Mike Bilder, who joined the company somet...

8 August 2008
18:06 GMT

Xbox 360 Falling Behind on the MMO Front

MMOs are one of the last bastions of power left to PC gaming. World of Warcraft, Age of Conan or the upcoming Warhammer Online are games that are exclusive to the PC and that sport millions or hundreds of thousands of subscribers. There's nothing comparable on either the Xbox 360 or on the PlayStation 3, and one...

31 July 2008
10:15 GMT

DC Universe Online Will Feature Cross Over With Comics

Sony has offered a few new details regarding its upcoming MMO project called DC Universe Online. The game is set to take the most important elements of the comics' universe created by DC and translate them into a videogame scenario.Jim Lee, who is the executive creative director of the project says that the game...

4 July 2008
19:06 GMT

DC Universe Characters Will Have Brutalities

What do you get when you cross a multi million dollar comics franchise with one of the best fighting games of the 90's? The correct answer, these days, is Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, the game which works on the assumption that the magic powered heroes of the Mortal Kombat universe devise a way to reach the DC...

30 June 2008
10:26 GMT

New Mortal Kombat vs DC Characters Revealed

When I heard that the next Mortal Kombat game would not continue the perennial war for Earth storyline, convoluted and inconsistent as it was, I got a bit disappointed. When I heard that the new Mortal Kombat game would feature a Dark Knight called Batman, I was ready to go into desperation mode, thinking of the carn...

25 June 2008
20:06 GMT

Creator Talks About Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe

As the gaming world first speculated about a new Mortal Kombat game only to marvel at the announcement of the new title, more people are getting curious about how the idea of superheroes versus martial arts experts came along. One man who can answer a lot of questions about Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe is the co-crea...

14 May 2008
02:24 GMT


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