New Mortal Kombat movie canonizes Ultra Instinct Shaggy

Warner Bros. Animation’s new animated Mortal Kombat movie, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, dropped Tuesday, delivering a familiar, bloody tale of the battle of Earthrealm’s warriors against the villains of Outworld. It also quickly confirms the canonical existence of “Ultra Instinct Shaggy,” the Dragon Ball-inspired Scooby-Doo meme of yore (aka 2017). Mortal Kombat […]

Mortal Kombat 11 DLC is done as NetherRealm shifts to next project

NetherRealm Studios, the company behind the Mortal Kombat series, is moving on to a new game — and won’t be producing any more Mortal Kombat 11 content, the company announced Friday. The studio is “now focusing on its next project” after supporting Mortal Kombat 11 for more than two years, it said in a tweet […]

Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle Of The Realms Gets A Release Date, New Box Art

Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms is the direct sequel to Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge. The sequel was revealed earlier this month from Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Bros. Interactive, and NetherRealm Studios, and now we’ve got a Battle of the Realms release date and our first look at the official box art.  Confirmed today, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of […]

Fans Think Mortal Kombat's Ed Boon Is Teasing A Marvel Game

Ed Boon is known for his clever tweets, but sometimes the gaming community makes a big to-do over harmless posts. Is his latest post another theory gone wild, or is the Mortal Kombat co-creator really teasing a new Marvel game? You decide.  Boon and his Twitter account are always in the conversation. Sometimes he posts things that […]

Ranking Every Mortal Kombat Game From Worst To Best

Mortal Kombat is a landmark franchise for the video game industry. Not only did it push the boundaries of what is acceptable in interactive media in the ’90s, but the series has continued innovating and evolving the fighting-game genre with high-quality cinematic story modes, new approaches to post-launch support, and a continued desire to push the […]

Mortal Kombat Is Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes

Video game movies get a bad rap for the most part but lately, there’s been a handful of outliers that broke the mold. Many were hesitant to buy into the Mortal Kombat hype for that very reason – the unavoidable chance of it being bad – but so far, it’s netted a 62% on Rotten […]

How Mortal Kombat invented the ESRB

During a joint hearing before two Senate committees in 1993, Sen. Joe Lieberman called for a bulky TV to be wheeled in so he could show a video excerpt to illustrate a point. It was a brutal scene from Mortal Kombat — blood splattering from Sonia’s head before Kano rips out her heart. In a […]