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The Mortal Kombat / NBA Jam Crossover We Never Saw
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | While Midway have been consigned to the dustbin of history, in the early 1990s, they were gods. Largely because of two games: NBA Jam & Mortal Kombat. Two games that, for all their success, never came together. More »
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The Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe DLC That Could’ve Been
4:40AM Michael McWhertor | Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe’s roster of “kombatants” was missing some key names on both sides. That was something series co-creator Ed Boon and the MK team had hoped to address with downloadable content, which never happened. More »
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Ed Boon Says Next Mortal Kombat Going For The M
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Despite financial turmoil at Mortal Kombat publisher Midway, the Chicago-based MK team is soldiering on with the ninth fighting game in the series, currently known only as MK9. Series co-creator Ed Boon says it will definitely be M-rated. More »
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Midway To Keep Paying Mortal Kombat Creator To Make New Mortal Kombat
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | History lesson: despite decreasing sales and quality standards of late, Mortal Kombat is without a doubt Midway’s most important remaining asset. And Ed Boon created Mortal Kombat. So he’s important to Midway. More »
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Get Beaten By Mortal Kombat Creators On PS3 Tonight
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Want to pummel the creators of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe senseless? Franchise co-creator Ed Boon and members of the development team will be on the PlayStation Network tonight, taking on all comers. More »
The Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter Pie In The Sky
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Fighter Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is an interesting tie-in. On one hand, you’ve got MK and on the other DC Comics. Interesting! But MK creator Ed Boon has even bigger dreams. More »
MK vs. DC: The Joker’s Fatality Gets T-Rated
12:40PM Michael McWhertor | First the good news. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is still great fun. We played it from the comfort of the Kotaku couch this week and had a blast. Now the bad news. That amazing Joker fatality, the one where… well, if you haven’t seen it yet, we’d suggest you watch it now. It’s awesome. More »
New Details On MK vs. DC’s Unique Story Mode, Model Viewer, DLC Plans and More
11:30AM Michael McWhertor | Midway’s Ed Boon and Paulo Garcia, game designers on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, stopped by the Kotaku “offices” yesterday to give us a near-final look at the upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 fighting game. Having already played the game at E3, Comic-Con and the Leipzig Games Convention, we were pretty familiar with how the game plays.
Twisted Metal Arcade Game Was Once Planned
7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Buried within the latest blog update from God of War and Twisted Metal producer David Jaffe is mention that at one point, someone, somewhere thought a Twisted Metal arcade game was a good idea and that there were hazy plans for Midway and Sony to collaborate on such a product. While that obviously never bore fruit — and more than likely never, ever will — to know that vehicular combat could have come to a Midway arcade cabinet is morbidly fascinating. Jaffe writes that he met with Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon way back in the mid-nineties to discuss such a venture, but that “nothing – clearly – ever came of it”. Of course, this was when arcades were still viable and Twisted Metal was but a fledgling series. They were also the heady days of Cruis’n World and War Gods, two indicators that it was probably best for all involved that Twisted Metal Arcade never saw the light of day. Still, we’d love to have a peek into the alternate universe where it did. If only for the laughs! SAN DIEGO COMIC CON 2008 [DavidJaffe.biz] More »
