Weeks ago, Ed Boon promised the announcement of four new playable characters for Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, two from each side, at the annual Comic-Con event. Those four characters have indeed been revealed, but only one currently possesses his own render. IGN was given this image as an exclusive earlier today:

The clown prince of crime from Batman's universe can be safely added to the list of confirmed characters! The Joker sports his traditional attire and appears to be standing in front of the Gotham City Police Department, plotting some sort of fiendish crime no doubt.

If a higher res image becomes available from the official site, this thread will be updated with it. Until then, thanks to IGN and for the lead on this!

Gaming gossip and news site Kotaku posted a snip from their interview with Mortal Kombat lead and co-creator, Ed Boon, which confirms the project originally intended to be Mortal Kombat 8 was not completely scrapped. Though Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has taken the forefront, the game originally thought to be in development before that announcement will follow after the release of MKvsDCU this fall.

While that grittier, darker version of MK didn't make it far beyond the technology development stages — Boon told us there was little in the way of concept art for the grimier spin on the series — the next next Mortal Kombat may strive for more blood, more violence, more of everything that warrants an M-rating.

Click here to read the remainder of the short article. While nothing new is revealed, it does confirm at least that the development team has not totally forgotten about what was to be Mortal Kombat 8.

Thanks to for the lead on this story.

Reporting to you live from San Diego Comic Con, we interviewed Ed Boon regarding the latest game, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe

To read the interview transcript in its entirety, click here.

Stay tuned as throughout this weekend, we will update with pictures from the show as well as a video of the interview!

IGN has posted a brand new article detailing the combat styles of Gotham City's own anti-hero Catwoman and MK's favorite sorcerer, Shang Tsung. The article gives a preview of the fighting styles of each character in the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe including special attacks and information on Free Fall Kombat.

The Midway representative playing along side me said that Catwoman's a character that's all about combos. One of her moves is a kicking cartwheel that juggles her opponents into the air so that Catwoman has time to get on her feet and unleash more combo-linking attacks.

Both Catwoman and Shang Tsung will be in the playable build of Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe at Comic-Con and we'll update you with video footage as soon as it becomes available. You can read the article by clicking here.

Our thanks go out to the folks at IGN for publishing the article and to forum member for the lead on this exciting story.

Following yesterday's release of Liu Kang's render from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Midway follows it up by releasing the first glimpse of the only other currently confirmed character to appear in the game, Captain Marvel!

As expected, Captain Marvel is cloaked in his traditional attire as painted by Alex Ross. From the render pose, he seems to be "powering up", so to speak. Interestingly, the render on the official site is referred to as "Shazam render", which was the name of the wizard Billy Bastion utters to transform into Captain Marvel. This likely doesn't mean anything special, however. The stage depicted here is unknown as the render mostly focuses in and around the character himself, but if this render shares any similarities to Liu Kang, who has his own stage, then this could possibly be the Rock of Eternity, the lair of Shazam.

Thanks to forum member for the lead on this story.