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Who Knew Turning People Into Squares Made Them So Cute?

I wouldn’t have guessed it, but deviantART artist Theresa Cartwright has a whole gallery dedicated to proving the naysayers otherwise. They don’t just include video game characters, either. Everyone from The Last Airbender’s Aang to Breaking Bad’s Jessie appears in that gallery. Even Jessie’s meth head makeup is somehow, slightly, oddly charming in the squarified…

By Tina Amini Published July 2, 2012

Is There Any Hope for the Future of Video Game Movies?

Yes, video game movies by and large suck, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a chance that one bright day we might see another game-based film that does our beloved titles justice. Commenter PrinceLUDA21 spouts hot and cold running hope in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Let’s just get this out the way now and…

Speak Up Published June 19, 2012

New Mortal Kombat Movie About…a Supermarket Employee

According to a report on movie site Bloody Disgusting, the upcoming Mortal Kombat film will follow the exploits of a “lowly unlucky supermarket employee”. “With Kevin Tancharoen still attached to direct from Oren Uziel’s screenplay”, the site writes, “we’ve exclusively discovered that the live-action reboot will follow a lowly unlucky supermarket employee who discovers that…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 19, 2012

The Dorkly Weekly: What Happens After a Mortal Kombat Babality

What, you expected the mighty warriors of Mortal Kombat to just dump the baby versions of their enemies in a landfill or something? That’s not how you save Earthrealm. Will somebody please think about the children? They might be wearing little versions of Mortal Kombat outfits (Halloween, hmmm), but that doesn’t mean they have what…

By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2012

Kotaku East

The Top Ten Xbox 360 Games in Japan (That Were Never Released There)

Multi-national releases are a difficult process. Not only are there linguistic and cultural barriers to overcome, but very often content or simple monetary reasons can keep a game from entering one country or another. Even so, some games are desired despite their limited availability no matter where you are. That being said, here are the…

By Toshi Nakamura Published May 17, 2012

What Do Predator, Mortal Kombat, Dragonball Have in Common? This Guy.

This guy is Mike La Jute Blanche. He’s a French cosplayer, and holy crap, he is good. Just look at his work. The outfits and make up are incredibly impressive, and he does a great job of capturing Predator, Dragonball‘s Piccolo, and Motal Kombat. The hip-hop Piccolo is especially wonderful. Sure, his Kratos cosplay needs…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 15, 2012

The Dorkly Weekly: Video Game Real Estate Agents Have it Rough

Filled with rusty meet hooks, jumping snakes, and the odd retractable bridge over a pit of bubbling lava, video game real estate isn’t exactly burning up the market. Well, in some cases it is, but only literally. Bowser’s castle from Super Mario Bros. isn’t a safe place to raise a family, but a good real…

By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2012

Dream Mortal Kombat Cameo Proves Dr. Robotnik Can Be a Right Murderous Bastard

In the latest installment of CurtainsAreOnFire’s Mortal Kombat Secret Character Tryouts video series, the Angry Birds get angrier, Paperboy delivers carnage, and Dr. Robotnik finally creates an obstacle course capable of murder. Dr. Robotnik generally falls into the Bowser category of video game villains. He really wants to be evil, but he’s kept from reaching…

By Mike Fahey Published May 7, 2012

Mortal Kombat Comes to the Vita in Fine Form

It has occasionally felt like a dirty secret that Mortal Kombat 9 was one of my favorite games of last year. But there it is. It hit just the right blend of punchy violence, imaginative special moves and accessibility, and it got me invested in the (silly) Mortal Kombat universe and its (ridiculous) characters all…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 1, 2012

The Most Brutal Mortal Kombat Fatality Isn’t Always the Bloodiest

Wait, what? I didn’t pay for front row seats to the Mortal Kombat tournament just to be deprived of bloody entertainment! At least that’s what I imagine is running through the heads of the audience when Scorpion decides to forgo a fatality move. They’ve been robbed of the awesomely gruesome fatalities known to the fighting…

By Tina Amini Published April 30, 2012

Ill-Fitting Kitana Cosplay Meets Gravel-Walking Mileena In Live-Action Mortal Kombat

Remember the ill-fitting costume that the Kitana model wore to promote Mortal Kombat on the Vita? And the model who had to brave fields of gravel in heels as Mileena? The two have finally met for the latest advertisement featuring Mortal Kombat on the Vita. Their in-game personas fight to the death while their real-life…

By Tina Amini Published April 26, 2012

How Hollywood Managed To Not Screw Up Mortal Kombat, The Movie

Editor’s note: Hollywood seems to have a penchant for shitty video game adaptations, don’t they? But the utter disaster that was a movie like Super Mario Bros. didn’t quite scare away movie producers and directors. When a team of passionate, actual gamers got together, they recognized that someone had to pay attention to the booming…

Jamie Russell Published April 23, 2012

Live-Action Mileena’s Special Mortal Kombat Power is Walking on Loose Gravel in Heels

The UK’s live-action Mortal Kombat Vita ad campaign continues, swapping out Kitana for another of the game’s femme fatales and making a poor model navigate treacherous terrain in the least-sensible shoes imaginable. I keep expecting her to fall over screaming, clutching her twisted ankle. Perhaps that’s coming in the full version of the ad.

By Mike Fahey Published April 19, 2012

Sub Zero Seeks Revenge for The Matrix: Revolutions

Sub Zero, in whose head it’s always 2003, plugs into the Matrix just to kick Neo’s ass. I don’t know about you, but it took me at least ten minutes before I could pull my head away from this. [via The Best Fun Site]

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

Let Mortal Kombat Vita Transform You Into a Woman Wearing an Ill-Fitting Ninja Costume

The full-length live-action trailer for Mortal Kombat Vita is here, making me think that perhaps I need to tone up a bit more, maybe visit a tailor before the game arrives. We saw brief flashes of Kitana’s outfit in the teaser version of this Mortal Kombat Vita ad, and it didn’t look half bad, if…

By Mike Fahey Published April 12, 2012

Kitana Reminds Us Mortal Kombat Vita is Coming and Her Outfit is Drafty

Play anywhere, dressed scantily. Mortal Kombat Vita is coming to the states on May 1, at which point we’ll see an influx of alien ninja women scaling skyscrapers and posing.

By Mike Fahey Published April 5, 2012

Forget Nerd Rap. Here’s Hardcore Fighting Game Rap

There’s a common complaint with a lot of nerd rappers, and it’s one I for the most part agree with: that weak production and sloppy rhymes often get a pass because of the subject matter. Not here. This is freestyle rapper Surgeon General showing that he can go through the Mortal Kombat roster on the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 4, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

Good God, Mortal Kombat on Game Gear Had Some Terrible Audio

I have some fond memories of my Game Gear. I loved that giant hunk of sexy black plastic so much that I forgave its terrible battery life and the other aspects that led to its financial failure. The game I played most was Mortal Kombat, which I was so excited to finally own in some…

By Kirk Hamilton Published March 30, 2012

No, a Smaller Screen Does Not Mean you can Release a Banned Video Game

Last year’s Mortal Kombat reboot was never released on console in Australia, because it exceeded the country’s MA15+ rating. Without an adults-only rating Down Under, the game couldn’t be put on shelves. With the game getting a later release on the PlayStation Vita, though, publishers Warner Bros. figured they’d try their luck and re-submit Mortal…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012

The Dorkly Weekly: An Ode to Mortal Kombat‘s Crappiest Character

Let’s see who we’ve got representing Earthrealm in the Mortal Kombat tournament, in which the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance. We’ve got a god, that’s always good. A cybernetic special forces commado; sure, I’ll take that. A mall cop? Pass. Okay, so officer Kurtis Stryker wasn’t a mall cop. He might…

By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2012