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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 |
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There wasn't much to stand in the way of THQ's WWE Smackdown vs. Raw, and, with a five-year streak, it seemed like it would remain an undisputed champion for a long time. But, last year, Midway released its TNA Impact series and Smackdown was suddenly no longer the king of the hill. Impact was really well r... |
16 November 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Lawrence Kasanoff, who is the owner of Threshold Entertainment, initiated a lawsuit against publisher Midway, which was gone through a bankruptcy process and is not set to be sold to Warner Bros. for the sum of 33 million dollars. Kasanoff is claiming that he is the one who built the Mortal Kombat brand to its curren... |
29 June 2009
16:21 GMT |
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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 |
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Warner Bros. has made a bid of no less than 33 million dollars for the acquisition of Midway Games, which has recently declared bankruptcy. Initially, the company, which was sold to an investor for just 100,000 dollars, stated that it expected to be acquired by a suitor willing to pay at least 30 million dollars for ... |
25 May 2009
03:47 GMT |
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The Midway saga, which has seen the publisher sold once and now again in search for an investor, is far from being over. The creditors of the company, which is now in bankruptcy protection, have filled a law suit against some of the people who have been involved in the downfall of Midway, including Sumner Redstone, w... |
14 May 2009
02:29 GMT |
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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 |
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A few gaming genres are currently dominating the market. Besides the ever so popular music games, we also have racing and sandbox titles, which try to offer the player a great, adrenaline-filled experience in an open world.As Midway couldn't convince movie star Vin Diesel to take up singing, it settled with two ... |
10 April 2009
05:28 GMT |
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There are a few gaming genres currently dominating the market, of which, besides the ever so popular music games, we also have racing and sandbox titles, which try to offer the player a great, adrenaline-filled experience in an open world. As Midway couldn't convince movie star Vin Diesel to take up singing, it... |
3 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The videogame industry, both on the hardware and software sides, seems to be continuing its expansion, even if the economy of all major markets for games is being hit by the recession. In February, the growth was slower than expected, but it was still there, delivering more arguments to the idea that “videogami... |
3 April 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Midway, as the publisher, and Epic Games, as the developer, are announcing that the PC version of the biggest update for Unreal Tournament 3 yet is now available for all those who have the game on the PC. The aptly named Titan Pack can be obtained through Steam, but be warned that it is possible for servers to be ver... |
10 March 2009
03:04 GMT |
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THQ is one of those medium publishers that seem to have been hit the hardest by the wave of the worldwide economic crisis, which swept over the videogaming industry. At one point in its existence, THQ was said to be just a little smaller than Activision but now, after the merger with Blizzard, there's a big gap ... |
9 March 2009
01:04 GMT |
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The recession is rearing its ugly head on the whole world, and, in these troubled times, no company is safe from its repercussions. We've seen big corporations like Sony or Microsoft being affected, so the news that already struggling company Midway was in even deeper trouble was nothing surprising, as it has be... |
3 March 2009
03:02 GMT |
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There's a worldwide recession, and things aren't going very well for the industry, as a whole, or for the gaming business, in particular. We've already seen big companies post losses in profit, like Electronic Arts or Sony, and small studios closing, like Factor 5, but the most recent news, famous Mort... |
19 February 2009
10:11 GMT |
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Gaming certainly has a lot of iconic companies that have brought great titles to a lot of gamer generations. Midway is one of them, bringing titles like Mortal Kombat, Unreal Tournament or The Lord of the Rings Online, to a variety of gamers who enjoyed them for quite some time. Sadly, the company hasn't been d... |
13 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe managed to sell more than 1.8 million units, which is very good news for Midway, a company that has been caught badly by the credit crunch. And it seems that due to this success, there's a good chance that we might see another Mortal Kombat videogame at th... |
28 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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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 |
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Feral Interactive has released a new version of its WWII-based title, Battlestations: Midway. Version 1.0.3 improves networking reliability and fixes two bugs that users reported as being able to crash the game. Battlestations: Midway is a blend of action and strategy, requiring gamers to engage in air, land, sea, an... |
19 December 2008
09:54 GMT |
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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 |
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Midway is a struggling developer and publisher of games these days, but, although its financial troubles have been on the map for quite some time, the company is still putting up a good fight. Its new games, like Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, haven't been very successful in sales, but executives are still optim... |
5 December 2008
02:48 GMT |
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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 |
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Midway definitely isn't going to have a very merry Christmas this year, as the sales of the company's major titles that were launched, like Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, aren't going precisely as planned. But hopes are high since the company has just announced that it has set the release date for the ... |
25 November 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Mortal Kombat vs DC is going to be a pretty interesting title, promising to put the fighters of the extremely popular Mortal Kombat game series against all of the superheroes and villains of the DC comics universe.The game is set to be launched on November 16 in the United States and on November 21 in Europe and othe... |
7 November 2008
04:51 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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As we reported some time ago, Midway, the publisher of hit games like Mortal Kombat or Unreal Tournament, announced that it dropped several franchises in order to spend the little money it had left on other, more profitable titles. A lot of people began to wonder what titles Midway had given up on, and how severe the... |
21 October 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Midway was a great developer and publisher of games a few years ago, when it was releasing great titles like Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter or Unreal Tournament. But recently, as of 2005, the company hit a very slow sales period which resulted in bad financial earnings. This made Midway drop a lot of employees and termina... |
17 October 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Midway has announced that it plans to release a Kollector's Edition for its upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The name is appropriate and the content of the package will likely attract all hard core fans of the franchise.The box art for the Kollector's Edition was painted by hand by renowned artist Al... |
14 October 2008
04:26 GMT |
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Midway was a great publisher that, with the likes of Mortal Kombat and Ms. Pac-Man franchises under the belt, was doing really well in the 1990s. But ever since the takeover of the company by the Redstone family, a wealthy group of people from the United States, in 2005, things haven't been going so well anymore... |
23 September 2008
02:22 GMT |
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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 |
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You have probably never heard of a game from Midway called Career Criminal - it's normal, since it was a secret project. Unfortunately, neither will you hear about this title again, since the developing company has announced that the project was canned and no less than 80 people were fired from the Austin studio... |
12 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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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 |
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Universal is announcing that it is setting up a videogame studio to handle development for some upcoming projects. Universal had a stake in Vivendi Universal, even if that company was not focused on games based on movies, but the merger between Activision and Blizzard means Vivendi Universal is now virtually out of t... |
25 July 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Everybody agrees that whenever two supernatural worlds collide, chaos emerges and only one category of people has something to win out of it: gamers. And it seems that we're up for one of the biggest treats in recent times, since the new Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe looks incredibly great at E3 and we're 1... |
15 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The second title in Midway's AAA E3 lineup is Wheelman, the promising racing game featuring Hollywood star Vin Diesel. As it was expected, the publishers did not waste any time in updating all the features of the release and showing us brand new eye-candy screens. We're really thrilled, we must admit, and w... |
15 July 2008
03:23 GMT |
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We have just heard that Midway's This Is Vegas got delayed since it needs further polishing and that upsets us a little, especially after having seen the screens put on display during this year's E3: they were perfect, they looked like images taken from a fully developed game. However, we can only be extrem... |
15 July 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Wrestling, fighting, American football, mad racing and thrilling first person shooter action are just some of the things we should expect to get from Midway during this year's E3 event which will be held in Los Angeles and is considered the biggest and best media summit in the world. With a triple A lineup of ga... |
11 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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If you are a football fan, you probably already love Midway's Blitz game - one that takes the beloved sport to a whole new level by bringing the pain to the game. And we all know that whenever violence is involved, we're in for a treat! The good news is that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will get a brand new and ... |
9 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Some would really love to know that "This is Spartaaa", but Midway wants to prove that, actually, This is Vegas and it is much better. Dubbed as a game which is able to compete head to head against Grand Theft Auto IV, Midway's sandbox title seems to get its inspiration from Take Two's game even when it com... |
3 July 2008
04:50 GMT |
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Midway sure chose an unlikely marketing strategy for its wrestling title TNA iMPACT! Instead of having public relations girls and boys do the talking while muscular men in tight outfits did the fighting, Midway thought it would be a good idea if the wrestlers that are set to appear in the game also promoted it by tal... |
18 June 2008
10:15 GMT |
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The Unreal tournament franchise is one of the most prominent multiplayer series to have ever seen PCs and now it's almost ready to be launched on the Xbox 360. The game will most certainly take advantage of the Xbox live features and will revolutionize the way multiplayer shooters are played on consoles. Unreal ... |
10 June 2008
02:19 GMT |
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Midway has released the official website for its upcoming TNA iMPACT! game. The site, which can be found here, will be jam-packed with the most up-to-date news about the first game based on the most innovative wrestling brand today, TNA Wrestling. TNA iMPACT! is scheduled to ship this September for the Xbox 360, Play... |
9 June 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Midway no longer owns the NFL license, so they had to come up with a similar construct and thus we have Blitz: Overtime. It was developed and published by Midway Games and launched on December 12 for the PSP. It is quite similar to the gridiron football Blitz games and features a set of slightly different rules than ... |
27 May 2008
10:21 GMT |
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When they're not busy joining the Mortal Kombat Universe with the DC one, Midway plans to fight against Grand Theft Auto. Their plan, called This is Vegas, definitely looks like a competitor and it has the power to attract the adult audience bringing us the decadence of Sin City (and probably much more).In order... |
21 April 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Midway seems to have started the Spring marketing spree, since it keeps throwing goodies to us - we first had the official confirmation of the new Mortal Kombat game, This is Vegas' website follow up and now the company is bringing some fresh new screenshots and information about their Vin Diesel game, Wheelman.... |
21 April 2008
06:13 GMT |
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On Friday, we have reported rumors regarding a possible release of a Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game, where the likes of Sub Zero, Scorpion and the others were supposed to fight against Batman, Superman and other DC Comics superheroes. We have analyzed the rumor, found Ed Boon's website that was filled with s... |
21 April 2008
03:25 GMT |
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The Unreal 3 engine, created by Epic Games, has already spawned one huge success for the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft in the form of Gears of War and is already powering the game that's set to again establish records on the console, Gears of War 2. But the main Unreal 3 powered offering, Unreal Tournam... |
18 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Even as big game companies ride a wave of unprecedented sales and expansion, there are bound to be discontents. Warren Jenson, who has been Chief Financial Officer at giant Electronic Arts since 2002, has recently announced his intention of parting ways with his employer. No clear and official reason was offered for ... |
24 March 2008
19:06 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Midway presented its financial results for the year of 2007 and the financial projections for 2008. The results themselves were very troubling for the Midway shareholders. Revenue from sales went down by more than 10 million dollars, while losses went up to $97.4 million, compared to 2006's numb... |
21 March 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Midway has released its financial results for 2007 to some disappointing reactions. The sales numbers for the whole year were $157.2 million, clearly down from the sales figure for last year of $165.6 million. Losses went up to $97.4 million, compared to 2006's number of $77.8 million. The president and CEO of M... |
7 March 2008
04:35 GMT |
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