gamasutra.com - 8/11/2009
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Now that it's acquired Midway and with it the Mortal Kombat franchise, Warner Bros. is looking to take the classic fighting brand online. It's been revealed the company is seeking a senior software engineer in networking to 'push the boundaries' of online interaction, according to UK trade ...
gamepodunk.com - 8/11/2009
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gamepodunk.com —
If you could travel back in time to
2001-2002, before Deadly Alliance was announced, and conducted a...
poll among many gamers about the future of the Mortal Kombat franchise, you may have been lucky to find anyone who had anything positive to say, unless they were reminiscing. So when Ed Boon, the ser
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Game Podunk: Retro Rewind - Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
trmk.org - 8/9/2009
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trmk.org —
A recent job posting made by WB Games
Inc. Chicago for the upcoming Mortal Kombat 9 is...
revealing that the Mortal Kombat Team is aiming to focus on strengthening it's online game play. In particular they want to make the game the “gold ...
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Mortal Kombat 9 Job Listing Reveals Online Play Focus
playstationlifestyle.net - 8/9/2009
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playstationlifestyle.net —
Although Mortal Kombat is going back to it’s
root, it seems that Ed Boon and friends will...
be adding something revolutionary to Mortal Kombat 9. Mortal Kombat 9 is currently in development by WB Games Chicago, under Warner Bros. Recently posted up on the Time Warner.com’s job ...
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Mortal Kombat 9 Lets You ‘Finish Him’ Online
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Warner Bros. Wants To Revolutionize Online Mortal Kombat [Online Play]
Kotaku —
... both the Mortal Kombat team and the advanced technology group to help design and implement functionality ranging from the core network transport layer all the way to owning the final implementation of brand-new features that will revolutionize online play" Revolutionizing online play in Mortal Kombat shouldn't really be all that difficult, with only rudimentary online included in the most recent entries in the series. Here's hoping the WB does things up right! WB Seeks Online Features For Mortal Kombat [Gamasutra]
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Next Mortal Kombat Hopes to "Revolutionize" Online Play
The Escapist : Latest News —
... had perfectly functional if rudimentary online play - I thought it was plenty satisfactory, and I'm not exactly sure how you could push it any further. Warner Bros. obviously thinks otherwise. They conclude the posting by saying that the lucky person who gets this job will be "owning the final implementation of brand-new features that will revolutionize online play." Short of having the characters pop out of your TV and into your living room, I'm not sure what this could mean. [Via Gamasutra ]
Interview: Capcom Talks Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat Brand Rivalry
GameSetWatch —
... Now that embattled publisher Midway has been scooped up by Warner Bros. in a $33 million acquisition this year, it looks like Mortal Kombat is on its way back, too. The IP was a primary factor in Warner Bros. buy, and it's to be expected the company makes the most of its purchase. Job listings recently revealed, for example, that Warner's ready to take the franchise into the next generation at last. ...
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Report: Midway looking to sell Mortal Kombat assets
joystiq.com 3/3/2009 —
Midway is reportedly looking to sell off its Mortal Kombat franchise in its continuing struggle to keep its head above water. To put this into perspective, this would be like a family of many children putting the only child who managed to go to ...
"Mortal Kombat Killer" Gets 36 Years [Mortal Kombat]
kotaku.com 1/17/2009 — Lamar Roberts, a teenager convicted of beating to death a seven-year-old, will be an old man when he gets out of prison. The so-called "Mortal Kombat Killer" received a 36-year sentence yesterday. The 2007 beating death of Zoe Garcia, 7, was ...
Rumor: Another Mortal Kombat Movie Shooting This Year?!
firstshowing.net 7/8/2009 — July 7, 2009 Source: SGVTribune.com by Alex Billington Wait, when did this happen? Yesterday, Warner Bros announced that they had bought most of Midway Games' assets, the big video game corporation responsible for a number of hit games, including ...
Mortal Kombat Team Looking To Split From Midway
kotaku.com 4/5/2009 — Midway's team of developers responsible for the 17-year-old Mortal Kombat franchise is currently in active talks with other publishers to leave the company and for its own studio, sources tell Kotaku. The MK team, which comprises about 50 ...
Mortal Kombat development team looking to move on
thatvideogameblog.com 4/5/2009 —
According to an inside sources at Kotaku (those wily buggers), the development team responsible for Mortal Kombat and its turgid iterations is looking to move on from Midway and form its own company. At the moment, senior members of the team are in negotiations with several unnamed ...
Next Mortal Kombat Will Prioritize Online Play
1up.com 8/10/2009 —
WB Games Chicago has apparently been taking notes over the course of 2009's fighting game revival. In a new job listing (via TRMK ), the studio says that they want the next ...
What's Next for Mortal Kombat?
edge-online.com 3/2/2009 — In the wake of its recent bankruptcy filing, Chicago-based Midway Games has requested court approval for a multi-million dollar incentive plan that would grant bonuses to key employees based on certain milestones, including the sale of the Mortal ...
New Mortal Kombat set for epic online play —
play.tm 8/11/2009
Warner Bros eye network future Having completed the take-over of Midway, Warner Bros Games are now putting in place their plans for their newly enlarged portfolio of games, starting with perhaps the biggest IP they have acquired, Mortal Kombat. ...
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