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Johnny Cage Delivers Fades In The Most Hollywood Way In New ‘Mortal Kombat 11’ Reveal Trailer

Source: WB Games / NetherRealm Studios Johnny Cage is back, and boy is his character even more ridiculously good. Cage is the latest character revealed joining the growing the list of fighters that will be in NetherRealm Studios’ highly anticipated game Mortal Kombat 11 . We might have found our favorite character. Cage is the focus of this weeks Kombat Kast that last announced that Princess Kitana’s BFF and deadly assassin Jade would be returning to MK11 as well. Armed with his signature moves like his Shadow Kick, Shadow Uppercut, Shadow Somersaults and his brass knuckles that we were introduced in Mortal Kombat X . But what gamers will be genuinely excited to see are the new tricks that Johnny Cage has up his sleeve in MK11 . The folks at NetherRealm are taking the character to another level by allowing him to beat his opponents into a bloody pulp in the most Hollywood way ever. The trailer reveals that Cage can now call on a stunt double to help issue fades, throw his sunglasses as a dangerous projectile, and blind his opponents with a camera flash. What really will have the masses talking is Cage’s X-Ray attack where we see the former actor brutalize his opponents with an award trophy smashing it across their faces before stabbing them in the back with it. For his fatality, Cage brings back his vintage uppercut finish but needs numerous takes to get it right before taking his frustration out on his defeated opponent and asking, “who hired this guy, wtf?” Johnny Cage joins his wife Sonya Blade, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Raiden, Geras, Skarlet, Baraka, Jade, Kano, Kabal , D’Vorah and Shao Khan. Mortal Kombat 11 launches April 23 for PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch. You can peep our fave in action below. — Photo: WB Games / NetherRealm Studios

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First Episode of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Features Kano, Jax, Sonya Blade

The Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series starring Michael Jai White as Jax and Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade has finally premiered, sustaining director Kevin Tancharoen’s tacit promise to do justice to the beloved ’90s video game where Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1995 feature film version decidedly did not. After the jump, watch the first 12-minute episode and decide if it delivers enough action, Mortal Kombat references, and fatalities to satisfy.

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Has Ricky Gervais Officially Doomed Us for the Safest Oscars Ever?

Now you’ve done it, celebrities. You’re pretending that Ricky Gervais’s zingers were anything but expected at Sunday’s Golden Globes, and now he’s never coming back. You malnourished spazzes! Would you prefer he can-can in front of a Best Picture montage like Billy Crystal? Wear Pleasantville costumes and flash Oda Mae side-eyes like Whoopi Goldberg? Jesus. Now we’re screwed for the awards show we actually care about: The Oscars.

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Last Summer’s Mortal Kombat Viral Spec to Become 2011 Web Series

Sadly, the world will have to wait a while longer to see the big-screen return of Mortal Kombat , the totally ’90s martial arts fantasy video game — film franchise that had us all screaming “Finish him!” and dancing to that horrifically infectious, Immortals-penned techno theme (“Mooooortal Kombat!”) in our misspent youths. But something good did come of that impressive proof of concept short that made the rounds last summer: Warner Bros. ordered a 10-episode Web series based on Kevin Tancharoen’s slick short Mortal Kombat: Rebirth .

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Last Summer’s Mortal Kombat Viral Spec to Become 2011 Web Series

Last Summer’s Mortal Kombat Viral Spec to Become 2011 Web Series

Sadly, the world will have to wait a while longer to see the big-screen return of Mortal Kombat , the totally ’90s martial arts fantasy video game — film franchise that had us all screaming “Finish him!” and dancing to that horrifically infectious, Immortals-penned techno theme (“Mooooortal Kombat!”) in our misspent youths. But something good did come of that impressive proof of concept short that made the rounds last summer: Warner Bros. ordered a 10-episode Web series based on Kevin Tancharoen’s slick short Mortal Kombat: Rebirth .

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