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Warner Bros. nabs Mortal Kombat maker for $33m

Warner Bros. has walked away with most of Mortal Kombat maker Midway Games for the cut-rate price of $33 million (£20m). The deal gives the US movie studio rights to the majority of Midway's intellectual property, including Mortal Kombat, Rampage, Spy Hunter, and Joust. A Delaware bankruptcy court judge approved a settlement …

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Old times

I must have spent thousands of dollars in quarters playing Joust back in the day (along w/Galaga).

Filippo

I'm still wondering

What kind of horrible, horrible management you need to have in order to go under while holding one of the most well-recognized videogame IPs in existance.

Alan W. Rateliff, II
Paris Hilton

Hollywood fodder?

Coming 10/10/10... Michael Bay's "Joust."

Paris, I got nothing here...

P Saunders
Paris Hilton

Expect a slew of game-to-movie filums

And the requisite amount of boredom that each one entails.

Paris, 'cause she's anything but boring, except in the Hottie and the Nottie, and any other filum she's been in.

Annihilator
Coat

Ripped off!

$33,000,000???? I would have sold them my copy of MK3 for a fiver...

Mark 133
Dead Vulture

My prediction for the brand's future.

Fatality.

Tom 13
Unhappy

@Filippo

One that didn't keep up with the times. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen any PC/Console games for Midway. All my recollections of their games are arcade. And both arcades that were a stones throw from my dorm room on campus are long closed. Oh, we've got D&B now, but it's just not the same.

Peter Mc Aulay
WTF?

A live stage show?

Seriously?

Nexox Enigma

Please please please

Don't make a damned joust movie...

We all know The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) will be in it.

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