In the past, Kotaku has shown how Japanese animation has changed (here and here). But we haven’t really had a look at how Western animation designs have evolved over the years. So let’s do that.

If this was a video game I'd play this game in a second, I’ll tell you what.

Back in the day we used to gather around the Mortal Kombat machine at the local arcade, cheering or booing the current set of kombatants as we waited our turn to play. Next week's new Mortal Kombat brings that feeling back with the King of the Hill online mode.

There were so much discussion and so many questions spurred by the two videos I posted from Gears of War 3 this morning that I went back to Microsoft for a walk-through of everything we were seeing in clips.