That live-action Mortal Kombat trailer recently released on YouTube maybe didn’t have anything to do with a new Mortal Kombat game, but it makes little difference as Warner Bros. today has coincidentally announced a new Mortal Kombat game anyway. Evidently dubbed simply “Mortal Kombat,” the new game is being developed by a new team for release in 2011.

The new team, called NetherRealm Studios, is being guided by original Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon. This new Mortal Kombat promises a “reinvention of its classic 2D fighting mechanic” along with a “new graphics engine.” It’s a little unclear from the wording, but it sounds like it’ll go the Street Fighter 4 route, with 3D visuals but strictly 2D gameplay.

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Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 2, 1998 known in Japan as Biohazard 2 (バイオハザード2, Baiohazādo Tsū^?), The game begins on September 29, 1998, as the citizens of Raccoon City have been turned into zombies by a biological weapon known as the T-virus.
Leon S. Kennedy, a police officer on his first day in the Raccoon Police Department, and Claire Redfield, a college student looking for her brother, enter the city. They fight their way to the police station. There they find Ada Wong and a little girl called Sherry Birkin.
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A new game in the series of simulations in the BattleTech universe was officially announced! Here is first trailer of MechWarrior 5

Let’s hope that this will only show. By assurances movie is «in game footage».

The rights to develop games cast is not very well known company Piranha Games, but I do hope that they will not kill the great world and make decent successor. The project is being developed for the X-box and PC. Release date has not yet been disclosed.

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