It's finally here, the compilation of the 3 original klassics is now available on PSN and XBL for 800 MSPoints / $10. I got caught up playing the game so much (got it on both consoles) and I couldn't get a special section for the game in time, I will however put something up soon, in the meantime check the games' information in MKO's sections for now:

Be sure to check the requirements to perform animalities/babalities/friendships, as those are often forgotten, also check the ultimate kombat kodes in UMK3's section to unlock Ermac, Classic Sub-Zero and Mileena (they're not available from the start in local play, they are in online though). If you enjoyed the classics back in the day or if you're new to the series I highly recommend getting this release in the console of your choice (PC version incoming too!), there may be a few hiccups here and there but the fidelity of the original games is there, it's the perfect arcade experience from the past.

Freddy Krueger comes out today on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360! Check your respective marketplaces, you can find him for $5 or 400 Microsoft Points today, here's his vignette:

His finishers are listed below:

PlayStation 3

Tell Em' Freddy Sent Ya (anywhere)

Welcome to my Nightmare (sweep)

Stage Fatality

Babality (jump)

This update brings a FREE compatibility pack with the Unmasked Sub-Zero and Retro Cyber Sub-Zero costumes:

Once again, thanks to interloko we have cut out pictures for this nightmare in his character page:

Stay tuned for the movelist, it should be available later today. Also I'm aware there's problems with some versus cut out pictures (full versions) I'll try to fix them if the site FTP lets me. EDIT: Movelist added, vs cut out pictures fixed. EDIT2: For PS3 the compatibility pack is a mandatory update (version 1.04), so don't look for it in the PSN store.

Just watch the video:

Update: The compatibility pack for this character will have unmasked Sub-Zero from MK3 as a free costume.

Rain comes out today on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360! Check your respective marketplaces, you can find him for $5 or 400 Microsoft Points, here's his vignette:

Now here's the finishers list for this fan-favorite character:

PlayStation 3

Bubble Burst (sweep)

Does It Sting?

Stage Fatality

Babality (jump)

Once again, the update brings a FREE compatibility pack (for those who hate water and don't want to buy Rain), it includes classic MKII costumes for Kitana and Jade:

Also, thanks to interloko we have Rain's cut out pictures in his character page:

Stay tuned for more, as the fourth DLC character will be revealed at Comic-Con!

Thanks to a submission by interloko I've been able to add cut-out pictures to each of the pages of the kombatants of MK (2011)! These cut-out picture include the versus pose (alpha layer PNG), 2 pictures from the ladder (or more in some cases), the head you see next to the lifebar during a fight and the render from Nekropolis, and a hires mugshot from the select screen, check each character's page to see them:

Edit: Fixed some mistakes. Edit 2: Added Rain. Edit 3: Added Kratos Nekropolis PNG image, thanks to Matthew. Edit 4: Added that guy from the movies.

Kenshi is now available for download on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360! Check your respective marketplaces, you can find him for $5 or 400 Microsoft Points, here's his trailer:

Kenshi's finishers list:

PlayStation 3

Scatterbrained

Split Ends

Stage Fatality

Babality (jump)

As last time, in case you don't buy the DLC you can get the compatibility package that enables you to play against Kenshi online is FREE and includes classic costumes for Noob and Smoke:

And as this post is so late, the trailer for the next DLC character is available, Rain:

Rain will become available for download July 19th on PS3 and Xbox 360. The MK section of the site will be updated tomorrow with some cut-out pictures, stay tuned!

Skarlet is now available for download on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360! Check your respective marketplaces, you can find her for $5 or 400 Microsoft Points, check her vignette now:

The package includes an ending, so be sure to beat the ladder once you buy it. Here's her list of finishers for both platforms:

PlayStation 3

Blood Bath (touching)

Make It Rain (jump)

Stage Fatality

Babality (jump)

Also included with the DLC there is a FREE compatibility pack that anyone can get, this pack includes the Skarlet model (so you can play against her online) and classic costumes for Cyrax and Sektor:

For more info about upcoming DLC characters and costumes check this newspost at Mortal Kombat Online

It's been confirmed that the previously retailer-exclusive classic costumes will become available June 7th on PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace for $4.99 and 400 Microsoft Points respectively, here's the trailer with some gameplay footage:

This pack includes 7 klassic kostumes and 3 fatalities, you can check how to perform these fatalities in the Finishers page, look for the 3rd fatalities for Scorpion, Reptile and Sub-Zero.

Exciting news for fans of the old MK games:

Burbank, Calif. – May 12, 2011 – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announces Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for PlayStation®Network, Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC. For the first time ever, the original Mortal Kombat arcade trilogy - Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 - have been brought together into a single collection which will be available for download in late summer 2011. An arcade-perfect port, the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection brings players their favorite Mortal Kombat arcade classics for $9.99 on PlayStation Network or 800 Microsoft Points, to put it in arcade terms - 40 quarters ($10).

Surprisingly this Kollection will also come out on PC, any new info we get will be posted in this newspost, here's hoping it comes out on Steam and other major digital distributors. Below you can find screenshots of the select screens of the 3 games:

I've been watching streams and videos of people who have gotten the game early and managed to get a pretty complete list of finishers, this is by no means complete as the number of finishers per character is still unknown, proceed ahead for the full list, obvious spoiler warning for those who want to discover finishers by themselves:

Mortal Kombat Fatalities & Finishers List

Also, our Spoilers section is a bit more complete with new info from early buyers, when the game comes out the spoilers section will replace the regular page of the game. That's all for now, remember to check if your local store has broken the street date, if not, be sure to grab this game this tuesday because if you don't you're going to die miss one of the best games of this generation.

Yesterday some hacker(s) ripped a localization file from within the demo files, this file included all text elements from the full game, and it revealed much (if not all) about the game, I decided to include this info in the site but in a separate section from the main game, you can read bios and endings for the full roster, info about alternate costumes, and a full list of arenas as well as some details about the other modes included in the game (still work in progress), the text dump also included all the dialogues for the story mode but I won't upload that (I haven't even read it), without further ado I give you a final warning, don't access this section if you don't want to ruin the surprises that this game has:

*****HUGE SPOILER WARNING***** CLICK TO ACCESS MK SPOILERS SECTION *****HUGE SPOILER WARNING*****

Updates: Select screen mugshots and versus screens render for most of the characters have leaked, they're available in their respective character pages. More updates: Page now features pictures for all stages, thanks to the guys at the MKServer forums.

The demo for Mortal Kombat is out for PlayStation Plus subscribers! It will be available for all PlayStation users on March 15.

I tried the demo (got a PS+ subscription exclusively for it) and it's fascinating, I already transcribed the movelists for the 4 characters in the demo, which you can start to memorize right away:

Now some bulletpoints with info and personal impressions about the demo:

• As stated above, there are 4 characters in the demo, plus 2 stages: The Living Forest and The Pit, the later features a stage fatality.
• No tag team in the demo, only 1 on 1.
• The single player part of the demo consist of the classic arcade ladder, you fight against the 4 characters and after you beat the fourth you go on to fight Goro...but an AWESOME montage video is shown instead, showcasing gameplay, more stages, x-ray moves, Kratos and other fatalities.
• Krypt is confirmed and in the montage video, it's basically the same from previous games but way better looking.
• Confirmed "mini games" from the montage video: Test Your Might, Test Your Sight, Test Your Strike (precision based Test Your Might) and Test Your Luck (you can play this alone of versus a second player).
• You can also fight 1 on 1 against an opponent, in the select screen you can choose the arena with triangle, also there are options to choose the controller layout (you can customize up to 4 in the options menu) as well as random select and hide selection cursor.
• After you fight 1v1 locally you can either choose to rematch, change character or go back to the menu, if you choose rematch you will be taken to a load screen that lasts for about 1 second and then back to the fight in the same arena with the same characters.
• Load times overall felt really short
• Kombat overall seems like a mixture of MKII and MK3 plus some elements from the 3D games, air combat is a lot like in MKII, combos aren't dial-em up but rather short and it's fairly easy to chain combos to special attacks and so on.
• The super bar is a great addition, you start with 2 bars, doing an enhanced special attack will use 1 bar, combo breaker uses 2 and x-ray uses all 3. Overall this adds a lot of technical value to the fighting mechanics, how and when you use your super bar can decide the outcome of the battle and I can see how this will make the game great to watch in events like EVO and such.
• Johnny Cage and Sub-Zero have a kind of special punch that you charge, it can't be blocked by your opponent and can be dash cancelled by you, it's very similar to Street Fighter IV's focus attacks but with a much shorter range
• Dan Forden is back, I played for around 4 hours and he popped in once after doing a combo that ended in an upprercut, apparently he appeas only in the Living Forest.
• Music and sound effects are top-notch, I played it on 5.1 and I was blown away, music is very reminiscent of classic games but with a modern feel to it, announcer has the coolest voice to date.
• Cage can do the nut punch (and enhanced version) to Mileena.
• There's an option (grayed out in the demo) that reads "Social Messaging", no information about this yet.
• A Living Forest stage fatality is shown during the montage video but I haven't been able to perform it, maybe it's not in.
• While you are advancing in the ladder, you can see some information, it shows the current difficulty, time, rounds and fights lost.

If I notice something else I'll add it to this post, feel free to ask questions via comments and/or by following me on Twitter. Edit: The montage video started popping up on YouTube, this is the best rip so far:

Edit II: TRMK did a stream of their first run through the demo, you can check out the video archives in their channel at Justin.tv HUGE UPDATE: We've been told some hackers have dug deep into the demo and have gained access to the complete text dump of the english localization text file of the game, which reveals all the characters, test your luck modifiers, challenges, bios, endings, krypt contents (incomlete) and some story mode dialogue, this of course spoils a huge portion of the game, I'm still thinking through if I should put some of this info up on the site, stay tuned.

News get bigger as we get closer to the game's release date: There will be a PS3 demo exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers, coming out this tuesday (March 8), I just got a subscription so I should be able to put movelists and such on the site. The 360 achievement list was revealed, which you can check out here:

Xbox 360 Mortal Kombat Achievements

Yesterday IGN posted this video about the new mode: Challenge Tower, it looks really fun and should add a lot of value to the single player experience, check it out:

Gamespot dedicated a big part of their On the Spot show to Mortal Kombat:

I'll update this newspost if more is revealed.

OMG Just watch the video!

Before your bones stop hurting from watching the video, check the list of new confirmed characters:

• Baraka
• Liu Kang
• Stryker (0:20 and 1:38 of the video, x-ray is performed on him, thanks @MKOnline for pointing it out)
• Goro (first gameplay appearance)
• Ermac (first gameplay appearance)
• Jade (first gameplay appearance, Scorpion steps on her chestbones at 1:48)

If you have trouble noticing the easter eggs remember you can pause the video in full screen by pressing the spacebar.

It was confirmed today that the official release date is April 19, plus the final boxart was revealed: