Development issues cost Sony a major holiday console exclusive, though Epic says it is trying to finish the title by year's end; Midway announces new fighter, Blitz game
Epic Games president Mark Rein cautioned fans that a November release for Unreal Tournament 3 on the PlayStation 3 and PC was just a target and not a certainty. Epic appears to have missed the target with the PS3 edition of the game: Publisher Midway today announced that it expects that it won't ship that version of the game until the first quarter of 2008.
The warning comes in spite of a statement from Rein late Tuesday saying that the studio is still toiling to get the PS3 UT3 completed by year's end. However, Midway president and CEO David Zucker said in an investor conference... [Read More]
Midway conducted a conference call announcing their financial guidance for the third quarter of 2007 and gave an outlook to their development plans for 2008. Along with the news of several titles slipping into the next year, Midway reiterated that 2008 will mark "the next-generation debut of [Midway's"> perennial top-selling franchise Mortal Kombat game." Nothing beyond that statement was mentioned in the conference call in regards to the new Mortal Kombat. While we already knew that Midway was working on a next-generation Mortal Kombat title for 2008, it's good to continue to hear that plans are still in the works to release the game next year, most likely towards the latter part of 2008.
Midway released the first of four Ultimate Mortal Kombat® trailers leading up to the release of the first-ever Mortal Kombat game on the Nintendo DS™. Check out Scorpion throwing his infamous spear at Sheeva. Watch as Sub-Zero freezes Kano and Sektor launches a rocket to destroy Jade. Ultimate Mortal Kombat® is scheduled to ship November 2007 for the Nintendo DS™. Ultimate Mortal Kombat® combines the visceral thrills of the classic Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3™ and the addictive puzzle action of the Puzzle Kombat component of the best-selling Mortal Kombat®: Deception™ in a single DS-friendly package. With unlockable content, new record-keeping capability, and Wi-Fi-connected multiplayer, players will be able take Ultimate Mortal Kombat anywhere for fighting action on the go.
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