“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.

Midway’s Chicago studio — now renamed NetherRealm Studios — are still in charge of development, under franchise co-creator Ed Boon.