Netherrealm Studios released a new video showing the origin of Skarlet and hinting at future downloadable characters.

Interestingly, Skarlet shares a similar history to Ermac, the red male ninja variant.

Mortal Kombat’s “Klassic” skins will soon be available as a downloadable pack on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

The new Mortal Kombat was the best-selling game in the U.S. in April.

“We also balanced the gameplay considerably more than some of the early games to keep it really competitive and make it almost a tournament level fighter,” Erin Piepergerdes, Associate Producer, said in our Mortal Kombat interview.

The upcoming Mortal Kombat game from NetherRealm Studios has a 300 floor challenge tower to complete. In a way, the challenge tower is like Mortal Kombat’s tutorial mode.

PlayStation Plus members will get to try it out a week early.

NetherRealm Studios’ Director of Art gives insight into how Fatalities are created for the fighting series.

A warm and fuzzy gameplay video of Mileena to accompany the announcement.

It’s a custom, functional arcade stick…but it’s also the game’s packaging.

Mortal Kombat begins again in April 2011 with a Kollector’s Edition and Kratos.

The Pit returns once more to bring a little ray of hope to those of us that struggle with Fatalities.

And development of a Mortal Kombat vs. Capcom in the future isn’t out of the question either.

Game Play’s videogame-themed theatre festival in Brooklyn includes a bunch of entertaining productions. One of them is Modal Kombat.