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Mortal Kombat 2 Has Found Some of Its Biggest Bads
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Mortal Kombat Had a ‘Fight Plan’ to Make Sure the Action Was Balanced
One of the most impressive things about Mortal Kombat is how each fight means something. When things get cooking in the second half of the film, everything that’s happened before gives each one of the various showdowns some sort of personal stakes — that’s what makes those fights shine even beyond special effects and fight…
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Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero Casting Informed the Entire Film
When director Simon McQuoid signed on to make Mortal Kombat he was sure of one thing. It was something that eventually trickled down to almost everything else in the video game adaptation. “I knew I wanted Joe [Taslim] as Sub-Zero,” the director told Gizmodo. “He was the first picture to go to on my pin-up…
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Sealed Super Mario Bros. Cartridge Sells for a Record-Breaking $868,000 at Auction
While it might not have generated as much as Beeple’s recent NFT sale, a sealed cartridge of Super Mario Bros for the NES just crushed the record for the most expensive video game auction ever sold going for a whopping $US660,000 ($867,966).