The long wait is over! Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is now available for sale in the United States for the X-Box, Playstation 2, and Game Boy Advance platforms! The Game Cube version will be released tomorrow. If you have not yet ordered the game, you can click on the following links to buy the game online:

• Gamestop
• Electronics Boutique
• Amazon

We will be unveiling our MK:DA strategy guide very soon now, so keep an eye on this site. Until then...

Let Mortal Kombat begin...

MK5.ORG forum moderator _JRF_ has just finished the second round of his interview with Dan "Toasty" Forden, who is responsible for the music for most (if not all) of the Mortal Kombat games, including Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance! In this interview, _JRF_ asks about Forden's past and influences. From the interview:

JRF: Where do you draw influence when creating such a large amount of music (at least 20 original tracks, plus sound effects)?

Dan Forden: Lots of places - usually what's in my head plus from things I hear all over the place - to me it doesn't sound like any of the things I like to listen to but probably has hooks in there somewhere ...

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

Our thanks to _JRF_ for providing us with this interview!

Today, I have acquired all 3 of the display boxes for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.  I couldn't help but notice something interesting on the GameCube box: MKDA will be GameBoy Advance compatible.  Although the GBA version is still a little way off, this may give people who own more than one console a reason to choose the GameCube version over the others.

Update (21 Nov 2002): It does appear this news posting was premature. After actually having acquired the GameCube version of the game, there is no mention of a GBA link anywhere on the box. We apologize for the error in our news posting.

We have acquired the BradyGames strategy guide for Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.  Some of the things we found interesting about the guide are the MK Trivia game and MK Chronology (timeline of all the MK games).

Also given in this strategy guide is information on two of the hidden characters. So as not to give out spoilers to those that do not wish to see them, we have put the spoilers on a separate page. You can see the character info and an image of one of the hidden characters here.

Our thanks to forum moderator Mobster4Christ for providing the image of the hidden character!

I thought this seemed pretty cool... A reader of our website, Phoenix, attended the Cube Club event in Baltimore, MD.  Here's his eyewitness account of Mavado's Meat Hook Fatality:

I recently got the chance to go to a Cube Club here in Baltimore, MD and, because it wasn't very full that night, got a chance to play the game and beat it with Sonya. For some reason I didn't get an ending, but at one point I lost to Mavado and he finished me off with a fatality...and man, was it sick. First, he dug his grappling hooks into the ground and started stepping back slowly. When he stopped, he lifted his feet in the air like he was going to do his grappling hook/kick move. But...about two seconds before he flew forward, SPIKES appeared at the bottom of his shoes. He shot forward and planted his feet in Sonya's chest, knocking her to the ground. He then twisted his feet into her body a bit. After that, when he pulled them out, I swear I saw some kind of organ (possibly multiple organs) come out of her body. Very bloody, but very very cool.

Thanks for your observation! On a side note, I want to take this opportunity to remind our readers we have a lot in store as we approach the nearing release of the game. You won't want to miss out! Also be sure to keep an eye out here soon for our new MK5.org Guide to Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance!