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Horologists like Breitling are known for their watches with faces full of complications designed to assist pilots, but Citizen has a pair of new timekeepers that explore what a watch worn by an X-wing or TIE fighter pilot in the Star Wars universe might look like. Sure, a pilot’s watch in that far away galaxy…
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 choreography. io9…
Miniature video game cabinets scratch a nostalgic itch for ‘80s kids who miss their favorite childhood arcades, but their compact size often means they’re single-player only. My Arcade’s new Street Fighter II: Champion Edition Micro Player solves that with the option of linking a pair of tiny arcades using a cable so that side-by-side fights—and…
Though Mortal Kombat is an action-packed adaptation of a hit video game, releasing it right now may wind up meaning a little something extra. The film is filled with actors from all walks of life, but many of are of Asian descent. In a time when violence against AAPI community is at the forefront of…
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 io9. “He was the first picture to go to on my pin-up…
I don’t care how good this new Mortal Kombat movie is going to be, it is extremely unlikely to be better than this glorious—update? remix? cover?—of the classic Mortal Kombat theme. It’s a banger that slaps, and whatever other cool slang kids are calling very good music nowadays. This glorious EDM update of the Mortal…
One of the joys of the Mortal Kombat video games is seeing all the characters on the screen together and getting to choose your fighter. The below video isn’t quite that, but the character roll call and look behind the scenes of the action approximates that feeling of infinite possibility. Mortal Kombat opens in theaters and…
Anyone who asks “Why is Hollywood making a new Mortal Kombat movie?” probably doesn’t follow Mortal Kombat. The first movie was released in 1995, around the same time the third game in the series was sucking up quarters in arcades around the world. In the 25 plus years since, not only have almost two dozen…
