Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have announced Mortal Kombat for the PlayStation Vita, expected later this spring.

In development at NetherRealm Studios, Mortal Kombat has been purposefully designed for the portable gaming experience, and it includes “brand new gameplay features and content developed exclusively” for the handheld.

“The NetherRealm team is committed to making sure that we follow up the success of 2011’s Mortal Kombat with an equally compelling experience on the PlayStation Vita,” said creative director Ed Boon. However, no other details where made available about the project.

Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios released a stylized new video giving fans a deeper look at Mileena and why she entered the Mortal Kombat tournament. This abominable clone is the ruthless and unstable creation of Tsang Sung modeled after Kitana under Shao Kahn’s direction.

“We can’t wait for players to get their hands on Mortal Kombat,” said Creative Director Ed Boon. “This game really is a response to what players have been demanding: mature presentation, reinvented 2D fighting mechanic and the best, most gruesome fatalities ever!”

The trailer features several classic Mortal Kombat fighters hidden in the shadows preparing for their next vicious attack. That said, even in the darkness, players will recognize the blue blaze of Raiden’s electricity and the iconic spear attack of Scorpion.

In a fighting game, an unblockable fighting combo can turn an otherwise enjoyable online experience problematic. That said, series creator Ed Boon states that the newest Mortal Kombat is being built with better online balancing in mind, letting the developer finesse certain aspects of the combat after it ship — without the excessive need for software patches.

“Everybody wants to ship the perfectly balanced game, but when it has been played for six months and beat on by everybody, players are going to find its weaknesses,” Boon told Kotaku. “We’re actually putting stuff in the game that lets us ‘turn knobs’ after the [game ships]. We have knobs that we can turn to further tweak the game once we know everyone has been bashing on it.”

“I mean, we can’t add a special move, but we can slow a projectile down or speed a projectile up or tweak the damage, just to kind of fine tune it after the fact,” he continued. Boon then continues to reveal NetherRealm Studios’ plans for “aggressive” downloadable content for Mortal Kombat — Boon even promises real post-launch content “that isn’t already on the disc”.

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe didn’t achieve both critical and commercial success, much like its predecessors. Instead, it achieved only commercial success. That in mind, Warner Brothers Interactive have announced the newest installment into the Mortal Kombat franchise, featuring the return “fatalities”.

Being developed over at NetherRealm Studios, Mortal Kombat is said to include extensive online play, a “tag-team” game option that supports up to four players in two-person teams — in conjunction to the classic 1v1 option — and “the deepest story mode of any fighting game”.

“We can’t wait for players to get their hands on Mortal Kombat. The game really is a response to what players have been demanding: mature presentation, reinvented 2D fighting mechanic and the best, most gruesome fatalities ever,” added creative director, Ed Boon.

Though Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe didn’t obtain much critical success. It did, however, receive alot of commercial success. That said, as Midway strides themselves together, it seems that the developer would be changing this perception with the next Mortal Kombat project, Mortal Kombat Rebirth.

All that has been shown of the project is a eight-minute video, featuring a realistic new take on the Mortal Kombat franchise that’s in common with suspense, horror films.

However, the last we heard, Warner Bros. were looking to “reboot” the film franchise; meaning this could be another video game installment, or the movies “rebirth”. But, it’s more likely that this could be a live-action trailer for the next game, seeing the timing of the trailer’s uncovering.

Update: It’s been revealed that is this indeed the trailer for the upcoming “hard rated-R” Mortal Kombat movie, Mortal Kombat Rebirth. And the short was directed by Kevin Tancharoen, who did the remake of Fame last year. And, judging from this short, Kevin is the perfect director for this movie.

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.

This is an interesting experiment that seem to be giving fans mixed feelings, but that’s okay because all the experimentation is finally over. Today, Miday announced that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has gone gold and is scheduled to be available in retail stores throughout North America on November 16, 2008, and throughout Europe on November 21, 2008.

“We are proud to release to manufacturing Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, the culmination of two years of effort and a rewarding collaboration with our friends at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics,” said Ed Boon, executive producer and co-creator of the Mortal Kombat franchise.

“So far the response has been overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic, and I can’t wait to get this into the hands of MK diehards and DC Comics fans alike when the game becomes available on Nov. 16 in North America and Nov. 21 throughout Europe! “

Street Fighter wasn’t the only fighting franchise making big waves this year because Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has been making waves as well. Today, Midway announced that the next episode of the Mortal Kombat franchise will be making it’s way onto the PS3 and Xbox 360 on Nov. 16. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe will be the first time that Mortal Kombat makes an appearance on the next-gen systems. The whole narrative of the game has to do will the choices you make as both a DC Universe Super Hero/Villain or Mortal Kombat Hero/Villain.

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.

In a interview with GTTV, Ed Boon told them that “they will be revealing more information on the game at Comic-Con”. At Comic-Con no new footage of new characters were shown, but we were lucky enough to get our hands on a list of all the characters so far revealed for the game.

Here’s the games full character list so far:

• Batman
• Sub Zero
• Superman
• Scorpion
• The Flash
• Sonya
• Catwoman
• Shang Tsung
• Shazam
• Liu Kang
• Jax
• The Joker
• Kitana
• Green Lantern

According to Kotaku, Mortal Kombat‘s co-creator Ed Boon was speaking about an eighth entry into the Mortal Kombat franchise. The game was described as “very dark, serious” and a “gritty” take on the series, a back to basics reboot that was free of “vibrant, saturated colors.” It was said to be heavily inspired by the look of Gears of War. Boon goes onto say why the game was scrapped, MK8 was scrapped when the DC Comics deal solidified. Meaning that if DC Comics didn’t “solidified” the deal we would have gotten a “gritty” and more “serious” Mortal Kombat game.

Your favorite whip-carrying burglar makes her return in the upcoming Mortal Kombat game, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Thanks to a character render revealed by TotalMortalKombat (seen on the left), Catwoman is set to make a return in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The image was given to TotalMortalKomat by an source that would like to remain unknown. Because the image was exclusively given to TotalMortalKomat there are some very big but very faded watermark on the image.

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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In an interview with GameTap, Ed Boon told them that finisher will appear in the next Mortal Kombat game, MK vs. DC Universe. Heres what he had to say “There was never any statement on our part that fatalities will be gone or that finishing moves will be gone.”

“We did acknowledge that we won’t be able to do the same kinds of outrageous moves, like tearing someone’s head off and the spine being attached to it.” he added “But there are a lot of assumptions that there will be no blood in the game, that there are no fatalities in the game. It’s an assumption that, because the DC characters will be in there, those features will have to be dropped. My response is that, no, we’re modifying fatalities,”

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