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Midway Borrows Money for Game Development

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

King of Fighters XII Revealed

The Amusement Machine Show in Japan has been chosen by SNK as the perfect venue to present The King of Fighters XII to the public that will, hopefully, be interested in playing the game.Game producer Masaaki Kukino says that the game will first appear in the Japanese arcades in April 2009 and that versions for gaming...

22 September 2008
03:51 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

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

New Mortal Kombat Movie, New Failure?

It seems that not only Uwe Boll can ruin a great video game by creating a very poor movie, but other people appear to be great prospects, too. For example, take the next Mortal Kombat movie set for a 2010 release (that's an approximate date, since the producers don't even have a full cast yet). It is going ...

11 February 2008
08:32 GMT

Mortal Kombat Cheats and Hints (PC)

Mortal Kombat (commonly abbreviated as MK) is a popular series of fighting games made originally by the Midway Manufacturing Company. Mortal Kombat began as a series of arcade games, which were picked up by Acclaim Entertainment for the home console versions. Now Midway exclusively creates home versions of Mortal Kom...

18 January 2008
18:06 GMT

Mortal Kombat Murder, 7 Year Old Girl Dead

The holidays are close, Christmas is coming and people should be happy and ready to forgive and forget. But there are some things that, unfortunately, happen. Some things that manage to ruin your day and make you incredibly sad. They make you think about everything you've heard in recent times regarding the "vio...

20 December 2007
03:56 GMT

Two in One DS Friendly Pack - Ultimate Mortal Kombat + Puzzle Kombat

Ultimate Mortal Kombat is by far a new title for any platform... except for Nintendo's DS that is. Midway's highly popular franchise is hitting Nintendo's handheld with the power of a Shao Kahn's shoulder attack. Ultimate Mortal Kombat is rated M for Mature by the ESRB and is now available for the...

13 November 2007
08:23 GMT

Ed Boon Talks More Next-Gen Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat series' creator, Ed Boon, has confirmed in a recent interview that their plans to make a real next-gen Mortal Kombat series of games are starting to become reality, reassuring that the next Mortal Kombat title is going to be different from top to bottom, featuring more characters than ever, and new...

4 October 2007
04:59 GMT

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon Wii - Simplified!

Wii owners will scream with joy at the sound of this: Midway Games has rolled out "Mortal Kombat: Armageddon" for the Wii across the US. The game features an "easy" control scheme, a completely revamped Endurance Mode and a new female character: Female Khameleon. However, the press release says that the control schem...

30 May 2007
09:55 GMT

PS3 - Boon Says the Next Mortal Kombat Will Be Grittier, Dirtier

After seeing what Epic's Unreal Engine 3 can do, Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat series creator announced that MK8 will be using something similar and that the fighting game would see a significant change on all levels. Thus, speaking with CVG on the next MK game, Boon talked in detail about the changes occurring with t...

23 April 2007
04:07 GMT

School and Games. This Time For Real

School and video games. I don't know about teachers, but students will surely be excited about it, if it does become a reality. We hear about how powerful learning tools games sometimes are and that they improve reflexes, eye sight and perspective thinking every day, yet nobody manages to make them a real part o...

20 March 2007
10:44 GMT

Mortal Kombat: Unchained - Moves and Fatalities (PSP)

Mortal Kombat: Unchained delivers the deepest fighting game ever with the lethal intensity that helped establish the Mortal Kombat franchise as the ultimate fighting game of all time! With multiple fatalities per character, multi-tiered interactive backgrounds, extensive game modes, six new fighters, and a new endura...

14 March 2007
05:37 GMT

ULTIMATE Mortal Kombat 3 - Secrets and Cheats (Xbox 360)

Prepare for the fight of your life! Enter the world of ULTIMATE Mortal Kombat 3 and discover 22 playable characters, classic fatalities, brutalities, friendships, and babalities with tons of environments, and multiplayer Kombat Mode as you fight to defeat Shao Kahn!Random character select:Press Up A at the "Select ...

9 March 2007
03:34 GMT




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