At Midway Winter Gamers Day, Mortal Kombat team members Ed Boon and Shaun Himmerick gave a presentation on their upcoming two-player action-adventure game Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks! The presentation lasted for ten minutes, and consisted of Ed and Shaun describing the game in detail while scenes from the game played out behind them. We're making this presentation available for you to watch now.

The video is in Quicktime format, and clocks in at 45.6 MB. To view the video, click here.

Mortal Kombat Online is hitting the road again! This time we're taking it to Las Vegas, Nevada where veteran reporters D'Arque Bishop and ]{0MBAT will be reporting LIVE at the annual Midway Winter Gamers' Day 2005! Once again, we are excited to have been invited, and our sources within Midway tell us Mortal Kombat is guaranteed to have a presence at the show. In the next few days make sure you keep it here for the latest impressions, media, and exclusive materials that you won't be able to find anywhere else. The saying always goes, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas", however we'll be bringing it straight to your screen as Mortal Kombat Online kicks off another round of live in-depth coverage!

Midway Games announced today that they were developing the next game in their popular series of retro arcade game compilations, Midway Arcade Treasures 3. However, this compilation will be focused primarily on racing games; as a result, it appears that Mortal Kombat will be sitting this compilation out. From the press release:

"The Midway Arcade Treasures brand continues to be one of Midway's strongest-selling and most popular franchises," said Steve Allison, chief marketing officer, Midway. "Midway Arcade Treasures 3 provides the same, classic feel as the previous two Midway Arcade Treasures installments while bringing back several of the most popular racing games in the industry's history to today's next generation consoles."

With the latest addition to Midway's classic gaming vault, consumers will be given the option to either hone their racing skills in single player mode in games such as S.T.U.N. Runner, or fulfill their head-to-head appetite and leave friends in the dust with titles such as Hydro Thunder and Super Off Road.

This news may cause disappointment in some MK fans, as it was hoped that MK would make a reappearance in Midway Arcade Treasures 3. However, if the sales of the previous Arcade Treasures games are any indication, this surely will not be the last Arcade Treasures game, and there's always hope for Midway Arcade Treasures 4...

To read the press release in its entirety, click here.

IGN has just posted six new videos from the upcoming GameCube version of Midway's fighting game Mortal Kombat: Deception! The six videos, with one exception, do not show anything not seen in previous demonstration videos posted. The six videos consist of exploring in Konquest mode, training with Bo' Rai Cho, the introduction to Konquest mode where we first meet Shujinko, a demonstration of Puzzle Mode with two Barakas facing off against each other, an example of Kombat from Chess mode as two Scorpions battle over a square, and an example of the chessboard and piece movement from Chess mode. This last is the only one in which something new is shown, as one player has Goro and Shao Kahn chosen as pieces.

The videos are available in Quicktime format for IGN Insider members, and in Windows Media format for non-Insiders. To see the videos in their entirety, click here.

Our thanks to forum/chat member Baraka_MK for the heads-up on these videos!

The folks over at Jakks Pacific (makers of Mortal Kombat TV Games) have now created their own mini-site for the unit:

http://www.jakkstvgames.com/mortalkombat.html


You will need the Macromedia Flash plug-in to view the site. It's a pretty neat looking site, so you should definitely check it out.