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Mortal Kombat Reborn… Again?

Nowadays, few video game franchises are as infamous for dying and reviving like Mortal Kombat. Formerly one of Midway’s properties, the franchise which is now owned by Warner Brothers, pulled another act of reincarnation. However, it is not in the form of a video game. Instead, an interesting near-eight minute video appeared on YouTube under a channel appropriately named, MortalKombatRebirth.

Upon viewing the video in question a modern city in turmoil ,named Deacon City, is in view. Immediately after, the camera cuts to a police station where Jackson Briggs, a.k.a. Jax, greets the screen on his way to question a shadowy figure. While Jax, played by Michael Jai White, starts detailing other M.K. characters like Reptile, Baraka, and Shang Tsung to the shadowy figure. Surprisingly, Reptile and Baraka are depicted as insane, depraved murderers. Unsurprisingly, Jax‘s partner in crime-busting, Sonya Blade, makes an appearance. Interestingly, Sonya is portrayed by none other than Jeri Ryan.

Shutter Island Review

Many people questioned acclaimed director Martin Scorsese’s choice to helm a pure genre film in the psychological thriller Shutter Island, but the marriage of one of the masters of crime drama and a Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone”) novel is as close to an ideal match as it sounds. Although Scorsese is capable of applying his skills to more meaningful work than a mystery, he’s able to play around a lot more with technique, style, light and color to turn a somewhat predictable mystery into a captivating thriller.

Top of the Month – May

Welcome to Top of the Month. A feature article in which the writers of PAC (that’s Player Affinity Comics) chooses their top and bottom picks for the month. These are books that shipped in the month of May.

Top Single Issue
Dustin – Titans: Villains for Hire Special – This issue returned Deathstroke to his former glory.
Kevin – Titans: Villains for Hire Special – It made me care about a character that I never knew existed.
Neil – Flash #2 – Barry Allen might be a criminal!?! Dang that was cool.

Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #1 – Review

Mouse Guard Legends is the newest miniseries to entail the Mouse Guard franchise. The new four part series is not a continuation of the previous two volumes. Legends is a series of short stories that has several writers involved in the epic series. The writers include: Jeremy Bastian, Ted Naihef, Alex Sheikman, Scott Keating, and yes the great David Petersen creator of the franchise.

The stories take place in a tavern in Barkstone, Fall 1154, two years after the events of Winter 1152. In the bar, we are introduced to Carver, an old mouse that comes regularly to the tavern to drink. Carver has accumulated a hefty bar tab due to his drinking habit over the last two seasons and the owner, June, has called in the tab. Carver is not the only one that owes money in the bar; other regulars quickly become unhappy by June’s decision. So June decides to make things interesting, but what does she do? She creates a contest within the bar and the best story gets their tab cleared. There are some ground rules however: No complete truths, no falsehoods, and it must be a tale that she’s never heard.

Video Interview with Kane and Lynch 2 Developers

“What do we perceive as real?”

That is the key question that the folks from Eidos and Io Interactive asked themselves when they sat down to make Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days. With that integral concept in mind, they set out to create a third-person shooter that was not only responsive and entertaining, but also engrossing and groundbreaking in the way it was “shot” and how it unfolded.

I had a chance to sit down a few weeks ago with Karsten Lund, Kane and Lynch 2’s Game Director, to talk to him about the plot of the game, the multiplayer, and what we could expect in general from Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days when we see it hit store shelves in August.

Gone but Not Forgotten

Below is a list of some of the best shows that were killed off in their prime, or cancelled before they had a chance to get there. Yeah, we will miss 24 and Lost, but this is a memorial to the TV programmes that were axed prematurely, a proverbial candle in the wind for those fallen heroes (no pun intended).

Deus Ex: Human Revolution E3 Trailer

The year is 2027. It is a time of great innovation and technological advancement. It is also a time of chaos and conspiracy. Corporations have more power than the government. Everyone is fighting for power, for control.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution E3 Trailer

The year is 2027. It is a time of great innovation and technological advancement. It is also a time of chaos and conspiracy. Corporations have more power than the government. Everyone is fighting for power, for control.

CodeBreakers #3 – Review

Foster’s mysterious past with Remy, Stan’s captor is finally revealed. Lindsay hacks the C.I.A.’s computers to find information on Remy a.k.a. The Information Broker. In doing so she stumbles upon a transcript testimony from a young undercover agent hired to write a code for him. It details his experiences with Remy and his wife, Ella. The young agent stayed at Remy’s house and wrote code day in and day out while studying the business. The longer he stayed the more code he wrote, and the more in love he became with Ella.

After capturing a C.I.A. agent, Remy gives the undercover agent a final test. He and the undercover agent brutally torture the man as he describes his family. In the end Remy gets his code but losses everything else. The C.I.A. raids his warehouse forcing the Information Broker to detonate explosives planted inside. Worse still, Ella, hangs herself out of fear of continuing to live with Remy. The undercover agent turns out to be Foster.

Irredeemable #14

After spending an entire issue recapping the first twelve issues, Irredeemable returns, getting the story back on track. Unfortunately, there’s no sense of how much time has passed since issue twelve when the Paradigm were captured by the U.S. Military. We open with Cary and Orian crossing dimensions via their human sacrifices. It’s unclear why they were in Orian’s dimension, but it does piss Cary off that people were killed in order to get them there. Orian tries to ease his guilt by assuring him that both parties killed were evil men, one a hit-man the other a sex offender. Cary has teamed up Orian in order to avenge his brother that was killed by the Plutonian.