Mortal Kombat X Officially Announced

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After being outed by Amazon UK (nice job guys) NetherRealm Studios has released an announcement trailer for Mortal Kombat X. Could this have gone smoother? Sure, it could have waited one freaking week to happen at E3, probably like they planed. But seeing how the cat is out of the bag, here it is. By the way, if you are squeamish or don't want to have young children see violence usually saved for HBO and Game of Thrones, you may want to hold off on watching this.

PSN - Its On (Mostly) (EDIT)

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Kazua Hiraj has announced that Sony has begun a region by region activation of the PSN today.  It is suggested that after you turn on your PS3 and update your firmware you immediately change your password for the PSN (like they have to tell you that).  They are slowly getting to each city and state and are saying it will be "several hours to restore PSN throughout the entire country".  As of this writing at 8:53 PM MST only 7 Northeast states had their service restored and given their estimate, we should be seeing a nation wide return to coverage by Sunday morning.  This is assuming they work on it all night.  If you would like to see the status on the return coverage check on the source link.  Good news is now you can start get Portal 2 on your PC for those that have it on PS3 and Mortal Kombat can start to see the online play it deserves.

EDIT: We now have a full return of the PSN.

Mario + Portal

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So I am sure that there is some actual news at there that I could report on.  I could mock the PSN some more, maybe further speculation on Project Cafe, or even randomly speculate on Microsoft's next console.  But that is not what I am going to do on todays post.  I have not gotten around to posting (or writing) my Portal 2 review, but I did find these portal related videos.  Do they give me some leway on the review until I can play the co-op portion?

PORTAL KOMBAT

Mario Meets Portal 2

Mortal Kombat Review - PS3

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Mortal Kombat is not rated ‘M’ for “Mature”, it’s rated ‘M’ for “Mother F*ck That Looked Like It Hurt A Lot!” Fighting fans rejoice, there is a new game that you can add to your collection and if you’re a Mortal Kombat fan, well, that's just icing on the cake. Mortal Kombat is one of the best fighting games I have ever played and for all of us that enjoyed the old school Mortal Kombat of yesteryears; you will be giddy with delight.
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The Gameslave Podcast - Episode 65

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Happy St Patricks Day everyone. Ok, I am a day early, but most of you will see his on 03/17 or later anyway so cut me some slack. And while I may not bring the gift of beer, I do have episode 65 of the Gameslave Podcast.

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Hit the Podcast page for the show notes

The Gameslave Podcast - Episode 64

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Welcome back loyal listners.  All three of of us are togehter this week and we have an actual show for you today. I am going to warn you now, we got really off topic towards the end.

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For the show notes check out the Podcast Page.

Australia Refuses to rate Mortal Kombat

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No real surprise here given their history, but Australia has found that Mortal Kombat does not fit into it's limited rating system, and has therefore been banned from entering the country legally.  This is mostly due to the outdated notion that the Austrailian parlament has about games being only for kids since their highest rating for games is still MA 15+. While many groups have tried to get an MA 18+ rating into the Australian system these attempts have so far failed.  This leaves no room for games that are made soley for the adult population, and causes Mortal Kombat not to be availble for mature Australian gamers.