When you think of Mortal Kombat, icons like Scorpion, Liu Kang, Raiden, or Sonya Blade might come to mind first as legendary fighters in the series. However, with a fighting game franchise as storied ...

Evo has revealed the fighting game lineup for Las Vegas next year, and Mortal Kombat 1 is noticeably missing from the event. Evo 2026 is viewed as the largest FGC tournament of the year, often a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor who portrayed Shang Tsung in the original Mortal Kombat movie, has passed away at the age of 75. Acorrding to Tagawa's ...

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa at the premiere of "The Man in the High Castle" in 2016 (Getty Images) Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, best known as the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung in the 1995 film “Mortal Kombat,” has died ...

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played evil sorcerer Shang Tsung in the “Mortal Kombat” franchise and appeared in “The Last Emperor,” “Licence to Kill” and “The Man in the High Castle,” died Thursday in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I think it’s worse. Some of the fatalities and some of the fights are worse. But they are way ...

Continuing our celebration of the release of the Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection, we have compiled a list of the franchise's arguably most important aspect: the Fatalities. The over-the-top, gory ...

With the release of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, several of the series’ secrets are about to be unearthed all over again. Be it a secret character, a hidden fatality, or a random mini-game. The ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Since releasing Atari 50 in 2022, Digital Eclipse has established itself as a champion for game preservation, thanks in large part to its "interactive ...

Mortal Kombat still has its share of secrets, and the ability to surprise, more than 30 years after its debut in arcades. A new collection of the franchise’s earliest days, spanning four arcade games, ...