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Mortal Kombat 1 Has Brought Back Animality Finishers, And They're Great
1.10.2024
Although some fans have worried about the fatality-filled series’ latest entry, Mortal Kombat 1’s Khaos Reigns addition has introduced a lot of new content, through a free update and a paid expansion (albeit with a much-maligned story mode). One notable inclusion is the return of the Animality...
Mortal Kombat Tournament Pop-Off Goes Horribly Wrong
1.7.2024
It was the chair heard around the world, or at least around CEO 2024. Alex ‘’Dyloch’’ Ruiz had just cemented his place in the Mortal Kombat 1 grand finals at the Florida-based fighting game tournament when he decided to get up, grab his chair, and casually fling it into the audience in what might...
Mortal Kombat 1 Mod Recreates The Drake Vs. Kendrick Beef
17.5.2024
The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both rappers in...
Pioneering Sega Developer Reiko Kodama Has Died
27.10.2022
Reiko Kodama, one of the most important developers in the history of both Sega and the wider role-playing genre, has died at the age of 59.Read more
Rose & Camellia, A Game About Ladies Slapping Each Other, Is Getting A Switch Port
15.9.2022
I can’t believe I’ve had to reach this far back into the archives for this, but anyone who was reading the site back in 2008 (!) might remember a game called Rose & Camellia, which was kinda like Punch-Out!, only if everyone was straight out of a Jane Austen novel.Read more
Dead By Daylight's Next Chapter Will Feature The Ring
15.12.2021
Koji Suzuki’s 1991 novel The Ring was adapted into a hit Japanese film, which was later remade by Hollywood. Next year, The Ring (aka Ringu) is teaming up with survival horror game Dead By Daylight. Read more
Shin Megami Tensei If… Was Persona Before Persona
23.7.2021
Despite being a spin-off of a spin-off, Persona’s runaway success made it the most recognizable of the Shin Megami Tensei RPG series. But in 1994, two years before the very first Persona game arrived on PlayStation, the blueprint for those future games was laid down in another lesser-known side...
Super Cub Anime Is A Love Letter To Adolescent Freedom
31.5.2021
Teenagers in many countries look forward to the day they get the freedom of their driver’s license, letting them explore their increasingly widening world. In rural and suburban Japan, where trains and busses may not be reliable or common, this freedom is given form in a moped, scooter,...
Mortal Kombat 2021: The Kotaku Movie Review
23.4.2021
As I said last month following a preview of the film’s first 12 minutes, the new Mortal Kombat movie starts off strong. The opening battle between the men who would become Sub-Zero and Scorpion is one of my favorite cinema moments of the year. The remaining 98 minutes? Not so much. The fights...