NetherRealm announces Mortal Kombat 1 for Sept 19 launch
NetherRealm Studios officially announced the newest game in its Mortal Kombat series. Called Mortal Kombat 1, the new game reboots the series story and...
Mortal Kombat 12, State of Play and Mikami’s departure | Kaser Focus
Sony’s latest State of Play, which showed off some of the third-party games coming to both console and VR, was precisely what Sony said...
Mortal Kombat’s next game is Onslaught, a mobile RPG
NetherRealm Studios announced the next entry in the Mortal Kombat series today — and it’s a mobile RPG. Called Onslaught, it’s a collection RPG...
Mortal Kombat celebrates 30th Anniversary with new trailer
Mortal Kombat is celebrating its 30th anniversary after first hitting arcades in October 1992. The fighting game’s gory style made it an instant classic...
The RetroBeat: Midway’s jammin’ rise and mortal fall
Arcades are a novelty these days, but they were a massive force in the industry in the 1990s. That was thanks in large part...
The DeanBeat: Sony beats Microsoft with games as the console wars renew
The console wars aren’t simple, but it’s always tempting for critics to call the contest before it even begins. But we saw the folly...
Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — “Doom to the Power of Ten”
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. To help commemorate its 25th anniversary, the Entertainment...
The DeanBeat: The gray areas of video game violence and addiction
When President Donald Trump met with video game leaders about violence in games in March 2018, the industry worried he would use games as...
World Video Game Hall of Fame inducts Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, Solitaire, and Colossal Cave Adventure
The games in the 2019 class of The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame span the spectrum of gaming, with the brutality of...
The RetroBeat: Mortal Kombat’s green screen tech returns in Super Kombat Fighter
Today, the original Mortal Kombat games’ use of live actors in front of a green screen may look … well, a bit quaint. But...