With the closing of Midway Newcastle, Midway has confirmed to EndSights that the Necessary Force intellectual property remains the sole property of their company, and they are advertising the IP for sale.

“At this point it remains an asset of Midway and is available for purchase. We have not disclosed any other plans for the IP,” Midway spokesman Geoffrey Mogilner told EndSights.

Necessary Force was announced mid last month and arose with some very high expectations; one being the savior of Midway Newcastle.

After the long-struggle about trying to get the recently released Mortal Kombat title to sell well, its publisher has filed for bankruptcy this morning, calling it a ‘difficult but necessary decision.’

“We have been focused on realigning our operations and improving our execution, and this filing will relieve the immediate pressure from our creditors and provide us time for an orderly exploration of our strategic alternatives. This Chapter 11 filing is the next logical step in an ongoing process to address our capital structure,” said Midway Chairman, President and CEO Matt Booty.

“Midway enters this process with strong underlying fundamentals, as evidenced by solid fourth quarter sales that exceeded expectations in spite of a challenging retail and general economic environment,” Booty added. “Overall, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe sales are approaching two million units shipped, TNA iMPACT! has shipped approximately one million units, and our Game Party franchise has sold close to three million units in total.”

Midway expects that Chapter 11 protection will enable the company to conduct its business operations as usual. To that end, Midway is seeking approval from the court for a variety of First Day Motions enabling the company to continue managing its operations in the ordinary course. These motions are typical of the restructuring process, and approval is regularly granted.

Face it, TNA Impact wasn’t the best wrestling video game ever made, but one of the most fascinating aspects of the game was its use of story-mode character, Suicide. Created specifically for the game, Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has been teasing Suicide’s debut for months on its weekly television show.

When at “Final Resolution”, a pay-per-view event, Suicide made his in-ring debut and has been hunting the TNA Impact Zone ever since. On last night’s episode of TNA Impact, Suicide rappelled to the ring, disrupted a women’s match, and magically disappeared.

“Art often imitates life in the wrestling and video game world, but with the help of Midway’s TNA iMPACT!, TNA Wrestling has reversed that trend by bringing a video-game character to real-life. Based on the main storyline character in the hit TNA iMPACT! video game, Suicide will enter TNA with one thing on his mind: revenge.”

['TNA Impact's' Suicide, A Made-For-Game Character, Comes To Life via G4]

Midway has really been hit by some hard times during this downward summit of the economy, it’s about $240 million in debt. And it’s changing ownership giving the publisher’s debtors a chance to call in their loans. But if the publisher can endure this beating, it may find a “hot tag” waiting for it on the other side.

A Midway representative has confirmed to GameSpot that the publisher’s 2009 slate includes not only Vin Diesel, but there is also plans for a second installment to the TNA Impact franchise. However, he did not address platforms or features for the game.

The first game was originally planned for a 2007 release but it had folded into Midway’s San Diego operations towards the end of the development cycle.

However, the first game was promised to be better then THQ’s Smackdown vs Raw series, but sadly the game couldn’t overcome it because of its almost super repetitive game-play. Anyway, speaking on it, let’s hope that this game will be better then the first. Hope to see some game-play soon.

Breaking bones, pumping steroids, throwing your helmet, mooning the crowds and celebrating by throwing parties. This just happens to be the “Blitz way” and thank god for it. The game fellows the story of a hot shot rookie as you basically make your way up the ladder. Throughout your campaign, there are a series of movies updates to the plot, but there isn’t much detail to them. But, somehow this game finds away of being somewhat compelling and gives you some interesting cut sences.

There’s also a little Q&A test and your answers will determine if you are a quarterback, receiver or whatever position you can get, but this can only be accounted for in “Franchise” mode. The main idea for the “Franchise” mode is to impress the scouts and PA’s to get you the big sponsors, cash and girlfriends so you can live the life.

The games control system is somewhat simple and it keeps you playing the game for hours on end. The guys at Midway also intergrated a simple yet easy passing, running, and defense system, which you would find in Madden. On the top of the screen the game does feature a “unleash bar”, when fulled the bar slows down time and enables you to pull off some more complex moves. But, each depends on your position.

The graphics are a bold improvement from the last version of the game, the graphics truly rival most other high end titles of it’s brand. The game has numerous player sizes and collision detection, which adds for some very interesting challenges and match ups for good tackling. When pulling off a good tackle the game will go into a 3D action x-ray mode, which helps add to the brutality.

With many new features like new teams which includes the Los Angeles Riot, The Houston Riders, Vancouver Beavers, Milwaukee Hounds and Atlanta 404. Also many new features like: realistic injuries, minigames to heal or juice characters, which in today’s world is very illegal. The ability create touchdown combos, and to create your OWN player, new team and etc.

Closing Statement:

Blitz: The League II is very entertaining at some points and it’s list of new features  will surely help you in the future. The game does have some great customization points as well as some very weak points. This game is only prefect in the eye of the beholder and to this beholder it’s mediocre. But, other then some weak points you should really give this game a try and if you don’t like it feel free to return it.

Score: B-

Midway has revealed a new Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe character render for one of the many characters from the Mortal Kombat Universe, Jax. If you didn’t know Jax was the first African American character in the Mortal Kombat series and he made his first appearance in the second Mortal Kombat game, Mortal Kombat II. The Mortal Kombat titles are all owned be Midway Games, a video game publisher since 1958, the company made many important stops in the last month and they are set to make many more in the coming months. Their next stop is in Germany for the upcoming Games Convention and they’ll be bring Mortal Kombat along with many over games.

New images pop up on the website for the new Mortal Kombat game, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is an upcoming crossover fighting game from Midway Games in the Mortal Kombat series, which will contain characters from both the Mortal Kombat franchise and the DC Comics Universe.

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