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Monday, Aug 31
MMM - Tour of Williams Bally Midway from 1992
This week's Mortal Movie Monday featured presentation is another much older video from the early years of Mortal Kombat. It's a tour of the Williams/Bally pinball factory along with the Midway game development studios from the long running WTTW Chicago series Wild Chicago. They stop by t...
Tuesday, Aug 18
Cancelled Mortal Kombat Adventure Game Details
This week some proof of a cancelled sequel to fan favorite Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks was discovered. The details found the personal website of a Matthew Doyle, a former Midway Los Angeles employee, who posted some level design concept from a Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks 2, which was mar...
Monday, Aug 17
MMM - Voices of Mortal Kombat Armageddon
This week's Mortal Movie Monday featured presentation is a bonus video from the game Mortal Kombat Armageddon. In the video you see the audio team at Midway putting together sound effects and voices for the game Mortal Kombat Armageddon with the help of many various other employees at the...
Monday, Aug 10
MMM - Mortal Kombat feature from UK's Gamemaster
This week's Mortal Movie Monday featured presentation could be considered a piece of Retro Mortal Kombat as there are not many videos from this era. Around the time of the original release of Mortal Kombat on the home consoles, the popular UK video game show Gamesmaster had a Mortal Kombat...
Tuesday, Aug 4
MMM - The IT Crowd Mortal Kombat Parody Menus
This week's Mortal Movie Monday is another great Mortal Kombat reference parody found in another medium. As we all know, Mortal Kombat is referenced and parodied all around the world. So it wasn't a total surprise to see a great parody of Mortal Kombat in the menu system of the DVD for The IT Cr...
Monday, Jul 27
MMM: Giant Bomb's Take on MK Annihilation
This week's Mortal Monday video was again pointed out by none other than Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon via Twitter and is another This Ain't No Game (TANG) feature from Giant Bomb. This TANG is the follow up to the video review of the original Mortal Kombat movie from a few months ago, this...
Friday, Jul 10
RIP Midway Games 1958-2009 (In Name Only)
We've received confirmation this morning that the name Midway Games is no more after today. The company will drop it's over fifty year old name, and continue operations under a Warner Bros. moniker effective Monday July 13th, 2009. It is likely they will be operating now under the Warner Bro...
Tuesday, Jul 7
Rumors Fly as Third Mortal Kombat Movie Shoots in September?
For the past three years, rumors have been flying around regarding a third Mortal Kombat movie and everyone of them have been proven to be false. The latest comes from actor/martial artist Chris Casamassa, the original Scorpion in both movies. In an interview with the San Gabriel Valley Tr...
Monday, Jul 6
Quan Chi Render from MK vs DCU DLC Revealed
Today on Twitter, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon revealed a render of Quan Chi from the unreleased/cancelled downloadable content (DLC) for the 2008 game Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. The other character that was to be released via DLC is DC Comic's Harley Quinn. Here is what Ed had to say...
Thursday, Jul 2
Midway Officially a Part of Warner Bros
Yesterday, a Delaware bankruptcy judge approved the pending sale of Midway Games to the sole bidder Warner Bros. For the sum of $33 Million, Warner Bros. makes away with the majority of Midway's heart and soul, including the gigantic Mortal Kombat franchise and development team supporti...
Friday, Jun 26
Warner Bros Remains as Sole Bidder for Midway
The LA Times is reporting today motion picture studio Warner Bros. is the sole bidder in the auction sale process of Midway Games. Their original bid of $33 million USD emerged as the only bid that Midway Games got during the bidding process that occurred during the last month, despite many o...
Thursday, Jun 25
Threshold Enters Fight For Mortal Kombat IP Rights
Game Politics is reporting that Mortal Kombat movie production company Threshold Entertainment is seeking to gain partial ownership rights of some of the Mortal Kombat intellectual property, including film and television rights. Here is an excerpt from their complaint sent to the US...
Thursday, Jun 18
Boon Confirms MK9's Return To Edgy Violence
Today we've got the first confirmation of the assumption that Mortal Kombat 9 will be returning to it's former M rated glory, after the T rated Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. That confirmation comes from Ed Boon's personal Twitter stream via a series of updates earlier today while discussi...
Monday, Jun 8
MMM - The Grid Multiplayer Videos
This week's Mortal Movie Monday presentation is a home made presentation by yours truly. Many people are unfamiliar with one of the most fun shooter games ever made, Midway's own The Grid. It was made by the Mortal Kombat Team between Mortal Kombat 4 and Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. It als...
Monday, Jun 1
MMM - Mortal Kombat Unseen - Making of MKDA
This week's Mortal Movie Monday presentation is the featurette Mortal Kombat Unseen, which details the creation of Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance. It follows the Mortal Kombat Team across one day of development of the game. This is probably very similar to what the team is going thru right...
Sunday, May 17
Mortal Movie Monday - MK vs DC Universe in 2D
This week's Mortal Movie Monday feature is another fan made 2D throwback like the Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter series we did before. This time the video created by Red-Lantern of Newgrounds is called Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe in 2D. It features re-enacts Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe b...
Monday, May 11
Mortal Movie Monday - Mortal Kombat Movie Music Video
After last week's review of the Mortal Kombat movie I figured it was time to continue the trend. This time we have what appears to be a rarely seen music video of the song Juke Joint Jezebel by KMFDM from the highly successful Mortal Kombat Movie soundtrack. This video appears to be an official...
Monday, May 4
Mortal Movie Monday - Giant Bomb Reviews MK the Movie
This week's video was pointed out by none other than Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon via Twitter. In it, Giant Bomb's Ryan Davis discusses the first Mortal Kombat movie in the latest installment of This Ain't No Game (TANG). In TANG, Ryan dissects video game to movie translations and point...
Monday, Apr 27
Mortal Movie Monday - MK: The Tobias Diamond
This week's Mortal Movie Monday feature is a recently released fan made Mortal Kombat short film called "The Tobias Diamond." Created by InfluenceFilms, the film features some new storyline that follows Mortal Kombat characters Sonya Blade and Scorpion fighting over the mysterious T...
Monday, Apr 20
Mortal Movie Monday - Shaolin Monks Cinematic Intro
This week's Mortal Movie Monday featured video is the cinematic opening sequence to the game Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. There are actually two reasons why we're featuring it. The first reason is there has been a lot of rumors during the past year that Midway's LA Studio has been developi...
Friday, Apr 3
Rumor: Mortal Kombat Team May Leave Midway
First I must remind everyone, this is simply just a rumor at this point. Because the story is spreading around everywhere, we figured it deserved some coverage. There is no solid source to this beyond Kotaku's "sources" and any of our sources have not said anything to indicate this could be h...
Monday, Mar 30
Mortal Movie Monday - Mortal Plates in Wheelman
This week Midway has released their latest game, Wheelman. Most of Midway's previous games contain references to it's other titles, and Wheelman is no exception. Right off the bat, in the first scene of the game there is a reference to Mortal Kombat in the form of the license plate for the bla...
Monday, Mar 16
Mortal Movie Monday - Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter Pt 2
Over the years there has been many great Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter videos, fakes, etc. But personally none are better than the ones done by Proxicide from NewGrounds. To me they serve as a great example of what a true crossover of the series would be close to. So we have decided to run all th...
Tuesday, Mar 3
Mortal Movie "Tuesday" - Making of Mortal Kombat 3
Due to the big news yesterday we decided to push Mortal Movie Monday off to Tuesday this week. This week's feature presentation is the featurette Behind Mortal Kombat 3: Into The Outworld, which details the creation of Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 original arcade and home v...
Monday, Mar 2
Truths About Midway "Offloading Mortal Kombat"
This morning Kotaku posted a poorly phrased story about a court filing from Midway Games that stated that they are selling the Mortal Kombat franchise assets. If you look at the court filings from Kotaku's source of the story, you'll find the true details behind the filing. I am not a lawyer,...
Monday, Feb 23
Mortal Movie Monday - 40 Year Old Fatalitiy [UPDATED]
This week's Mortal Movie Monday takes a look at one of the most well known movie clips that featured Mortal Kombat. In the movie 40 Year Old Virgin, two of the characters David (Paul Rudd) and Cal (Seth Rogan) play a game of Mortal Kombat Deception while trash talking each other about each oth...
Thursday, Feb 19
MK vs DC Universe Collectors Edition Comprises 55% of First Week of Sales at GameStop
At the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, GameStop COO Paul Raines mentioned Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe in a keynote delivered to gaming industry professionals. Raines was addressing the strengths of Collector's Editions of games during their first week of sales. Four games' (Metal Gear Solid 4...
Wednesday, Feb 11
Midway Files For Chapter 11 Reorganization
Everyone knows that Midway Games has been in a tough financial spot since it's former owner Sumner Redstone got himself in a bind and abruptly sold the company late last year. This action caused all of Midway Games' debts to have to be repaid sooner than planned. We at TRMK haven't covered thi...
Monday, Jan 26
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Ships 1.8 Million Worldwide, Next MK on the Way
Midway announced today that the latest fighting game in the Mortal Kombat franchise, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, has surpassed 1.8 million copies shipped. The milestone includes both Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PLAYSTATION 3 versions, Kollectors Edition and standard, across the ent...
Thursday, Jan 22
Reminder Play The MK Team in MKvsDCU Tonight!
Reminder, tonight is your opportunity to play against the development team of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe on Xbox LIVE. They will switch between each system giving a total of two hours to each console, the times you can see below in the table.. PlayStation� Network10PM (ET) - Midnight (ET) �...
Tuesday, Jan 20
Ed Boon on latest Major Nelson Podcast
This week's episode of Major Nelson's podcast features Mortal Kombat Creative Director, Ed Boon. For whose who don't know, Major Nelson is the nickname of Larry Hryb who is the Xbox Live Director of Programming at Microsoft's Games Division. You can listen to the podcast directly from Maj...
Saturday, Jan 17
Play with Mortal Kombat Developers This Friday! [TIMES UPDATED]
A special opportunity is coming soon for all you Mortal Kombat fans out there next week. You fans will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to play against the development team of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe on Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network this Friday, January 23rd, 2009. So fire up...
Tuesday, Nov 11
Third Finishing Moves Trailer & New Screenshots
Midway has sent along a higher quality versions of the new GameTrailers Finishing Moves Premieres from last Friday. The video clip shows the Finishing Moves for Wonder Woman, Shang Tsung and Superman in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. We have made a high quality stream available below. You ca...
Friday, Oct 24
Three New Finishing Moves Revealed on GameTrailers.com
GameTrailers.com continues their Fatality Fridays by exclusively revealing three new Finishing Moves for Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. This week they reveal are Raiden's first Fatality and Heroic Brutalities for Green Lantern and the Flash. You can view it embedded below, or goto GameT...
Midway Releases High Quality Super and Pro Moves Video
Midway has sent along higher quality versions of the Super & Pro Moves feature from yesterday. The video clip goes into depth on the details of the various unique fighting mechanics in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Here is how Midway describes the modes. Super Moves are what separates Mo...
Wednesday, Oct 15
High Quality John Tobias Comic Feature Video Released
This morning Midway has sent along higher quality versions of the John Tobias Comic Book feature from yesterday. So now you can view a high quality stream here, or download the 720p HD clips in your format of choice directly below. Also don't forget the video has the first reveal of the main vi...
Tuesday, Oct 14
Dark Kahn Revealed in John Tobias Video Profile
Today IGN posted up an interesting video profiling John Tobias creating the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Kollector's Edition comic. In it they talk about how John came back in to work with the MK team for the first time since his departure in 1999. John also discusses how drawing the characte...
Monday, Oct 13
MKast Episode 7 Now Available!
Senior Producer, Hans Lo and Associate Producer, Hector Sanchez are back to talk to the Mortal Kombat fanbase in the "official" MKast podcast. You can download the seventh episode at the WorldsCollide.com website. This episode is in two parts, the first part Hans and Hector had special gue...
Thursday, Oct 9
Lex Luthor and Baraka MKvDCU Renders and Screenshots Released
Midway has released a new high-resolution renders of Lex Luthor and Baraka from the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Baraka looks very similar to how he has looked in the past, and Lex Luthor is inside of an updated battlesuit from the comics which has typically been given the ability...
Midway Releases Kollector's Edition Kover & Video
After yesterday's premature leak, Midway has officially released the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe video featuring comic book artist Alex Ross. In the video Alex is shown in time lapse video creating the Kollector's Edition cover. He narrates the whole thing and gives insight into who he i...
Wednesday, Aug 20
New Recut Cinematic Trailer from MK vs DC Universe
Midway has released a new Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe trailer to coincide with Games Convention 08. The video is a re-cut of all of the gameplay videos to date, designed to run in cinemas and movie theaters. Get the Flash Player to see this player.var so = new SWFObject('http://www.trmk.org/e...
New Wonder Woman Render from MK vs DC Universe
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Nine New Screenshots from MK vs DC Universe
Ahead of the start of the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Midway had released nine new screenshots from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The screenshots feature the latest announced characters, Kitana, Green Lantern, The Joker and Liu Kang. Stay tuned, as a big character announcemen...
Video Cam Footage from New Character Announcement
GameSpot is over in Leipzig, Germany for Games Convention 08 and shot this video camera footage of the four new characters announcement of Wonder Woman, Deathstroke, Raiden and Kano in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. When each character is announced, their render was flashed on the screen...
