At the start of this year, Warner Bros and NetherRealm abandoned the PC version of Mortal Kombat X, a port that wasn't super hot to begin with. While the console versions would continue to receive updates and DLC, PC players were left with the one thing worse than pulverised ribs or a spine used as a jump rope: A broken heart.

Fighting game enthusiasts have been going over Mortal Kombat X with a fine-toothed comb ever since the game's first iteration almost a year ago. A ton of secrets and Easter eggs have been discovered but fresh ones keep popping up. It's been one big gory treasure hunt.

Today, Bo Rai Cho isn't the only drunken master in Earthrealm. Everybody in Mortal Kombat X will be throwing back green beers and feeling a little bit luckier for St Patrick's Day.

There I was, wrapping up a match in Mortal Kombat X and trying to remember the inputs for a finishing move so I could pull off a spectacular win. Then, suddenly, my opponent died in a totally egregious way that I wasn't expecting! This sudden Brutality reminded me that I've always loved Mortal Kombat's bloody surprises.

Video: Hate his crotch punch all you want but Mortal Kombat's douchiest martial artist has a gift for jawing at his opponents. The zingers he throws at Mortal Kombat X's newest characters are some of the best yet.

Video: My first thought after seeing a person sawed in half from skull to waist should not be "That's it?" Way to desensitise me to violence, Mortal Kombat X.

One of the new characters coming to Mortal Kombat X is an amalgam of three man-machine characters from the fighting game franchise's history. But it turns out that there's another robot ninja lurking inside that chassis. One who makes things a whole lot cooler.

Mortal Kombat X was't very good on the PC. While not the outright disaster that Batman: Arkham Knight was, it was still plagued with technical problems. A community still formed around the fighting sequel, but Warner Bros. and NetherRealm are cutting ties with PC players; there will be no more DLC for it.

How I've missed you, Bo' Rai Cho. Alien, Leatherface, Triborg -- those guys want to kill me. You just want to get drunk, throw up on me and maybe fart in my face. It's like they made my older brother a Mortal Kombat character.

In contrast to Mark, the difficulty I had with this was keeping games that weren't released in 2015 off the list. I did a lot of exploring in 2015, and participating in a fortnightly game challenge also meant I was working through my back catalogue more than I ordinarily would have been.

But that's not to say that there weren't plenty of new releases worth paying attention to. If anything, 2015 has probably been the best year for releases since the launch of the new consoles. So without further delay, here's my unordered selection of what I thoroughly enjoyed from the last 12 months.

The mammoth month of March was followed by a considerably quieter April, although there were a few titles worthy of attention.

Video: The next slate of Mortal Kombat X characters includes Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface, Alien's xenomorph, Bo Rai Cho, and Tri-Borg. Bo Rai Cho is described as "master of the drunken fist" and Tri-Borg is a mashup of Cyrax, Sektor, and Robot Smoke. They're arriving "first quarter of 2016".

We were already asking questions about the previous-gen Mortal Kombat X versions back in May after they were quietly delayed and it looks like we were right to raise an eyebrow or two. Warner Bros. has just announced that the game's Xbox 360 and PS3 editions have been cancelled and will never see the light of a disc-reading laser.

Having appeared in two previous Mortal Kombat games in non or barely playable form, the artist formerly known as The Tan Ninja makes his fully playable debut this week in Mortal Kombat X.

Predator wasn't supposed to arrive for Mortal Kombat X players until July, but it hit early (by accident) for some, and they're discovering a few hilarious Predator nods in the game.

The Predator DLC may not be out yet, but you can already see what one of his devastating finishing moves will be.

Kombat Pass owners can start making their way through the competition as the evil Edenian when the Tanya Bundle goes live tomorrow.

The best fighting game players in Victoria descended on Battle Arena Melbourne last weekend, along with a few overseas fighter celebrities, to decide who was the best in their chosen game on the day.

Last week, publisher Warner Bros. quietly delayed the last-gen port of Mortal Kombat X, according to several GameStop employees, who tell Kotaku they informed customers on Friday that PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the new fighting game had been delayed from mid 2015 to late 2015.