JAKKS TV Games, the company responsible for the Namco TV Games and Atari TV Games plug-and-play consoles within a controller, has announced that they have inked a deal with Midway Games to create a multiple-game console based on classic Midway games, including Mortal Kombat! From the press release:

MALIBU, Calif., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAKK) announced today that the Company has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Midway to produce a version of JAKKS' TV Games(TM) based on classic Midway(R) titles. TV Games is a plug and play gaming system that contains multiple classic games in one single controller.

Midway TV Games will feature top-selling Midway games, including Mortal Kombat(R), Spy Hunter(R), Rampage(R), Joust(R), Defender(R) I & II, Robotron:2084(R), Marble Madness(R), Smash TV(TM), Super Sprint(TM) and Paperboy(R). All that is needed are batteries and a TV -- No videogame consoles and no gaming cartridges are required. Simply plug TV Games into the A/V jacks of any standard television set, turn on and play. The lightweight, compact, all-inclusive controller, houses a combination of videogames with all of the hardware built right into the controller. This technology allows gaming fans to enjoy a number of videogames with just one single purchase.

To our knowledge, this is the first ever released Midway compilation which included any Mortal Kombat game. According to the press release, the Midway TV Games console will debut at the International Toy Fair 2004, and retail for $20.

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

Taken from the following news report:

Midway Games has announced that they are preparing to release their official financial results for the 2003 fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday February 25.

Midway will host a conference call and will simultaneous webcast the announcement at 4:45 eastern standard time. Both are open to the general public.

Credit goes to Rhoam of GameSpyDaily for the article.

An anonymous source recently sent us the following image, and our sources within Midway have confirmed that this is in fact an image of Baraka from Mortal Kombat 6/Deception! This is the first confirmed render from the new game released to the public.

 

We will release more information as we get it. Our thanks to our anonymous source for the render!

PSM Magazine has announced that their April 2004 issue will feature a look at a game under development that they cannot name until the actual issue ships. From their website:

Okay, okay... if you're a loyal subscriber, you've just gotten our March 2004 issues in your mailbox. Have you gotten to the final page yet? If so, I bet you're wondering what we'll have in the April issue that's so secret, we've taken a blood oath not to speak its name before you've gotten your mitts on the issues. Well, you see, blood oaths are pretty big deals, so I can't really spill anything on the big surprise. But I can guarantee you will get the most in-depth exclusive first look at a game we've ever delivered. And not just any game — a REALLY big game. Okay, I can say its a sequel. To a REALLY good game. We've seen it, played it, come away dizzy — but no one else has. But that's all I can divulge. So, in short, there is a very real reason to get psyched for the April '04 issue of PSM, on sale or in your mailbox in late March. I promise.

We have learned from a reliable anonymous source that this game is none other than Midway's Mortal Kombat 6/Deception. The issue will be out in late March 2004; we will report further on PSM's coverage as it becomes available!

Midway Games has now acquired the web addresses mkdeception.com and mortalkombatdeception.com as of February 6th. They are currently directing to the company website. Though an official announcement has yet been made, this should put all suspicions behind that Mortal Kombat: Deception is not the title for the next installment of the series; continuing its trend of using sub-titles in the name. We have reasons to believe that the official announcement will be made very soon, and if that's the case you will hear it here first. Keep your browser on Mortal Kombat Online for the latest as news breaks!