Game Informer has posted eight new direct-feed videos from Midway's upcoming Mortal Kombat: Deception! The videos include footage from Konquest mode, Puzzle Kombat, Chess Kombat, and complete matches featuring Baraka taking on himself, Bo'Rai Cho, Darrius, and Scorpion. Also, a complete match is shown of Kabal facing off against Scorpion.

The videos are in MPEG format, which should be playable in any current media player. To download and/or view the videos, click here.

Our thanks to forum user mcauslander for the heads-up on this new footage!

Earlier tonight IGN kicked off round two of its Fatality Friday video releases. This time Nightwolf is in the spotlight, as he makes a bloody mess with his weapon of choice. From the article:

For our second installment, we'll be taking a closer look at a man who's evil with a bow and arrow, Nightwolf. After showing Ashrah who's boss in the field of combat, Nightwolf gets down and dirty with a tomahawk and shows just how much blood is contained in a human head.

You can read the article in full by clicking here, or stream the fatality for free over here, while checking out Baraka's Fatality from last week if you missed it. Thanks for the dozen of news leads sent in, you guys literately don't miss a beat. However, thanks goes out to Mortal Kombat Online chat room user DECEPTION for the first heads up!

XBox Addict is running a story announcing that Midway is planning on opening a new development studio in Austin, Texas! From the article:

Leading interactive entertainment developer and publisher, Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) today announced plans to open a new internal development studio in Austin, Texas. Midway is actively recruiting for the new studio which it plans to open in the near future.

Midway will be at the upcoming Austin Game Conference on Sept. 9-10 at the Austin Convention Center.

This would not be the first time Midway has had a location in Texas; they previously had offices in Corsicana (which have since closed). If you live in Texas and believe you have what it takes to make it in the game industry, now's your chance!

To read the article in its entirety, click here.

Our thanks to forum/chat member CAMK for the heads-up on this news story!

G4techTV tonight will feature Mortal Kombat center stage in the newest episode of its series ICONS. From their site:

When Mortal Kombat hit arcades in the early 90's as Midway's answer to Capcom's arcade phenom Street Fighter II, it forever changed the way the world saw violence in gaming. From the slack-jawed frenzy of gamers searching for more gore to the unwanted attention from parents and lawmakers alike, the Mortal Kombat series undeniably became a nineties pop-culture staple that went on to spawn a hit movie and a succession of sequels of gradually decreasing quality. Find out how a series so controversial that it helped spawn the Electronics Software Ratings Board has stuck around for so long and where it's going next.

You can catch this special as it premiers tonight at 10:30pm ET / 7:30pm PT. Thanks goes out to MK Online member kody powell for the news lead!

While at the Midway Summer Gamers' Day in San Diego, GameSpy Xbox managed to snag a quick video interview with series co-creator Ed Boon outside the doors of the THIN/ONYX room. Not a great lot to say on my part...so go here to listen to what he has to say for himself regarding the upcoming sequel, Mortal Kombat: Deception!


Thanks goes out to forum member Takermk for the heads up!