It's that time of year again! I'm out here in beautiful and sunny Las Vegas, Nevada, where Midway Games held their annual Winter Gamers Day event, to show off upcoming games to the press! Of course, the main game on tap for the Mortal Kombat franchise was Mortal Kombat: Armageddon for the Nintendo Wii. We weren't able to take video of the presentation; however, unlike previous presentations, this one was the same video shown on GameSpot's site a couple of days back demonstrating the use of the Wiimote in the game. In the meantime, however, we can give you these official screenshots, complete with demonstrations of Wiimote use.

In addition, Midway had several of their upcoming Playstation Network titles for the Playstation 3 onhand, including Mortal Kombat II. I spent some time playing MKII to get a feel for the game (especially in two-player). I walked away feeling that the emulation of the game was almost bug-free and arcade-perfect. The one bug that I encountered was in fact a common bug; I could not get Random Select to work properly. Otherwise, the game played almost flawlessly.

I also got to take the time to interview Ed Boon and Shaun Himmerick. During the interviews, we got hit with a couple of surprise revelations. One of these revelations had been suspected by fans before but is only now being confirmed. The other had actually gone against previous information we had been given.

• Khameleon will in fact be a playable character in the Wii version of MK: Armageddon.
• Midway is currently working on a Mortal Kombat title for the Nintendo DS.

We didn't find out too much about the DS title that's in development. All that Shaun would hint at was that while it wasn't a direct port of a previous title, it wouldn't be a brand-new game either. We'll definitely be keeping an eye on this story; as we learn more about the DS version, we'll be sure to report it here.

We have the interviews in both Apple Quicktime video format for broadband users, and also an audio-only version in MP3 format for those people who would merely like to listen to it.

• Ed Boon audio interview at Midway Winter Gamers Day 2007 (8:28 - 7.75 MB)
• Shaun Himmerick audio interview at Midway Winter Gamers Day 2007 (5:38 - 5.17 MB)
• Ed Boon video interview at Midway Winter Gamers Day 2007 (8:36 - 47.78 MB)
• Shaun Himmerick video interview at Midway Winter Gamers Day 2007 (5:46 - 31.87 MB)

• Transcript of Ed Boon interview
• Transcript of Shaun Himmerick interview

This has been a quiet Gamers Day, all told, save for the two new big pieces of information we got in the interviews. As I said before, though, we'll definitely be keeping our eyes on these news stories, and when news breaks we'll be sure to bring it from you. From Las Vegas, this is D'Arque Bishop.

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Whoopy, Khameleon in MKAWii, what a surprise!

I'm alot more interested in the MK DS game. Wonder what it'll be about.

i fuckin knew it!!

Khameleon - Who really gives a shit anymore?
MKDS - Surprising, but good.

LOL! Somehow I'm not surprised that happened.

Khameleon- No way. No fucking way.

Tell your friends!

W00000000777!

Comming to the DS. Now everyone, go read my MK DS thread in the future game discussion, and look at the date of my post. I was right!

khameleon! KRAPTASTIC!!!

i could really care less about Khameleon, but i'll always like adding new characters to a roster.

Anyway that MK DS game sounds awesome! I can't wait!

I'm glad they are actually adding Khameleon to the game. I mean, of all the minor characters, she was probably the one who really NEEDED to be in it. One thing I'm wondering though is... will she take Chameleon's place in the roster or will both of them be playable?

Khameleon? REALLY? what a surprise (yo' admin's we REALLY need a rolleyes emoticon it's kind of hard to get sarcasm across without one)

i wonder if they'll take inspiration from the Kreat-a-Khameleon Kontest that Shadaloo held

but khameleon alone isn't enough to convince me to buiy this game again, throw Monster in there and i might consider it

the best news out of all of that? MKDS! eeeeeeekkk!

cool screens

*EDIT* the DS game sounds like an update of MK4/MKG to me

cant wait to see her...

<3

Shame on you, Chrome!

It doesn't surprise me that Khameleon will be in there. I think I will pick up this version just as a collectors item. At least the roster will be complete this time.

I'll be most anxious to see what they did with her character design. That's pretty much it.

Well I hope you ppl will finaly shut the fuck up now about Khameleon.










KHAMELEON IS IN THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully the former.

I'm glad that Khameleon was considered to be put in and that she's going to be playable. I hope she'll have her own look, styles, moves, and a good story. The return of Endurance is nice.

However, I'm still not planning on really getting any of the next-gen systems, and if I do, it won't be anytime in the near future. Also, I'd be very surprised if this game will turn out to be more balanced than the PS2/X-Box versions, but I seriously doubt it.

Just a quick little amusing factoid...

During the event, the bar had a list of drinks that could be ordered, based on the games being shown at the event. The one based on MK: Armageddon was very appropriately called the "Armageddon", as it consisted of a combination of Jim Bean, Jack Daniels, and Johnnie Walker Black.

For the record, I briefly considered trying it, but I figured I was better off not tempting fate (especially as I hadn't done the interviews yet) so I stayed with straight Johnnie Walker Black.

You kno what, I respect Ed Boon He's trying to make an effort to make us happy. We where pissed cause there where no Bios, so they go on and make them for us to make it up. People where bitching about Khameleon, well now we got her. Its clear to see that Ed Boon and the team are listening to us and trying to make an effort to satisfy us.

it's called covering his ass

Why the hell? This is the bs thing that happend when mkd was released for cube they added kahn and goro. Why make this an exclusive? They say it's the last game add EVERYONE.

I don't care about the wiiner. However having her in the game makes me wonder what she looks like.

Lol yeah I guess you could put it that way. But it stil makes us happy.

I hope that the MK Team made is possible for Meteor Storm and other unlockable stages to appear in Arcade mode this time around.