MOOORRRTTTAAALLL KOOOMMMBBBAAATTT (The Game This Time)
Hot on the heels of the awesome live-action Mortal Kombat video that had nothing to do with an actual movie or videogame, here’s a trailer for an actual new Mortal Kombat videogame. You’ll note it’s 3-D characters on a 2-D plane, there’s tag team fighting, and the characters and powers are just as goofy as in the original games, which should delight fans who were upset the video was too grim n’ gritty n’ vaguely realistic. And then there’s some gruesome moves — you’ll note the bone-cam near the end of the video — and assumably quite violent Fatalities. So it’s essentially the original Mortal Kombat, just gussied up for next gen. Which I don’t care at all for, because Mortal Kombat was a terrible game. Still, if you’re losing your mind with joy over this trailer, I don’t begrudge your happiness a bit.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.