15 Years Ago: Nintendo, Sega Propose ESRB to Congress
On this day in nerd history: Videogame makers go to Congress to propose the ESRB. The 1993 and 1994 joint Congressional hearings on videogame violence were a major turning point for the games business,...
View ArticleMortal Kombat Movie Reboot Slowed By Lawsuit
Plans for a third Mortal Kombat movie took an uppercut to the jaw Tuesday. That’s because Threshold Entertainment, a company with a long history developing movies and animation related to the classic...
View ArticleResident Evil: Afterlife Kills at Box Office
Director Uwe Boll may have a reputation for making terrible videogame movies, but the continuing success of Paul W.S. Anderson’s mediocre Resident Evil pictures does more damage to the genre. Resident...
View ArticleMortal Kombat Reveals Pay-For-Play Future of Fighting Games
Mortal Kombat is one of the first fighting games to fully embrace the digital culture we live in, with a for-pay online strategy if you buy used, and post-release downloadable content coming at a...
View ArticleWhy Buying Games at Launch Is a Fool’s Errand
Buying games when they're released is a scam: The prices of video games drop within weeks of release, and the second editions of games often include downloadable content. Here are a few questions to...
View ArticleMortal Kombat Brutalizing Vita This Spring
Soon it’ll be somewhat more acceptable to scream things like “Finish him!” while riding the subway. Developer NetherRealm Studios will port Mortal Kombat to the upcoming handheld PlayStation Vita,...
View ArticleVideogames’ Manliest Characters Inspire Geek Girl Fashions
If the fashion industry took its cues from videogames, runways would light up with outfits like the ones envisioned by Amanda Hemmons. The artist has taken some of the most iconic male videogame...
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