The Chicago Sun-Times is running an Associated Press story about Midway Games, discussing the company's financial turnaround in the past year, especially under the leadership of CEO David Zucker. The article also discusses the influence Mortal Kombat has had in making this comeback. From the article:
[Zucker] returned Midway's focus to over-the-top sports games where slam dunks are punctuated by explosions, and mature-rated action games such as the wildly popular ''Mortal Kombat,'' which has turned the Internet into a blood-soaked battlezone.

The ''Mortal Kombat'' series has generated $1 billion since its initial release in 1992, and the latest, ''Mortal Kombat: Deception,'' hit U.S. stores Oct. 4. Midway announced on Oct. 12 it had already shipped 1 million copies, and more than 130,000 matches were played over the Internet in the first week after the game was released.

With the holiday season approaching, Midway hopes ''Mortal Kombat: Deception'' will help it record its first profit since 1999. The company has added developers, streamlined the product line, and revamped its marketing strategy in the last year.

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''The video-game business is a lot like the movie business,'' Zucker said. ''You have to make great games, of course. But then you also have to create pre-launch awareness so that when (the games) hit the store shelves, there's a lot of demand pent up behind them.''
The article also touches on other projects the company is involved with, including the upcoming Area 51 remake and Spy Hunter movie, and the support of Viacom and its CEO, Sumner Redstone.

To read the article in its entirety, click here.

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