Apparently, the Hotaru Bio isn't up at IGN, so here's a transcript of it. Enjoy!

HOTARU
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Realm of Order
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
ALLIES: Dragon King
FOES: Dairou, Sub-Zero, Darrius

A hero from the realm of Seido, Hotaru fights to preserve law and order. Although his initial sojourn to Outworld was to kombat the emperor Shao Kahn, he has since allied with a ruler he believes will bring stability to the realms.

*cut to a new pre-game illustration of Hotaru*

JOHN VOGEL (Story/Animations): "Hotaru's mission is to keep order at any and all costs. "

*cut to a battle between Hotaru and a lifeless Liu Kang. Hotaru's lifebar reads "Wins: 25", so we can assume this dummy pummeling has been going on for a while. They are in what I believe could be a new arena, but could be the circular arena we've seen before. Under Liu's lifebar, the little "mugshot" is green, but Liu doesn't look zombie-ey, or spirit-ey.*

JAY BIONDO (Game Programmer): "Hotaru is an interesting character. He kind of has this whole 'loyalty and order' persona. He kind of has big presence."

JENNIFER HEDRICK (Character Artist): "When designing Hotaru's costume, I took his name into account, because his name means 'firefly' in Japanese. So, I went off in like this bug like direction..."

*we are shown another pre-game illusttration of Hotaru, in which he has black hair instead of silver. Cut to a battle between Scorpion and Hotaru at the MK2 Portal*

JENNIFER HEDRICK cont.: "...but ended up with more of a hard shell armour that was less buglike and more warrior like."

JOHN VOGEL: "With Hotaru and Havik, we wanted to try 'What about chaos and order?'. Hotaru is basically on the order side, Havik is on the chaos side."

*cut to a battle between Bo'Rai Cho and Havik at Sky Temple. Havik is using the Morning Star weapon, Cho is in Sumo style. Cho has what I think is 17 wins to his name*

JOHN VOGEL cont.: "For instance, Hotaru actually sides with the Dragon King, for the sole reason that he will bring order to the universe. You know, he didn't care how he brings order to the universe, but he will bring order to the universe."

*while Vogel talks, we are shown previously seen footage of the Dragon King*

JAY BIONDO: "One of Hotaru's attacks that I like to use a lot, which is his projectile that shoots at the ground and kind of explodes out.."

*we see footage of Hotaru using the attack on Liu in the previously mentioned stage, as well as on Kira several times in the stage with the falling Buddha*

JAY BIONDO: "...I think it's visually one of the most exciting moves to see, but also it has dramatic strategic value when you're playing."

TONY GOSKIE (Background Artist): "It's- it's cool, because you shoot the projectile, and that enables you to go ahead and do a second move if you're quick enough, you know, so, that's cool. You get a chance to maybe do a combo."

*cut to Hotaru using his naginata on Kira in the previously mentioned stage, as well a cartwheel attack*

NICK SHIN (Game Programmer): "Hotaru, uh, came out pretty interesting in that he has a lot of cool effects, and I would say some signature moves that'll make him pretty popular."

MIKE BOON (Game Programmer): "Hotaru is definitely one of the more striking characters in the game..."

*pause while I groan at bad pun*

MIKE BOON cont.: "...as far as the new characters."

*scene returns to Hotaru beating the crap out of Liu*

JOHN VOGEL: "Hotaru will uphold the letter of the law regardless of... of the consequences, or the means to get there."

*we see Hotaru's fatality. He is Fatality stance, and the stage weapon (an ornate sword) is still visible in the foreground. It's one we've seen before- he grabs Liu by the leg, and slams him against the ground, leaving a pool of blood, repeats the action in the opposite direction, drags Liu in a half circle on the ground, leaving a bloody trail, and slams him one last time, causing him to explode in a burst of brains and ribcages. Hotaru pumps a fist in victory, and a good time is had by all. The announcers gives us the requisite "Hotaru wins - FATALITY", and the movie's over. Please exit the theatre.*

I'll post some still shots, as well.