Mortal Kombat 9 National Tournament Live Stream!

Today is the first day of the National Mortal Kombat 9 National Tournament, hosted by PDP at Bally's Hotels and Casino in Las Vegas.

Team Spooky is providing a live stream for you viewing pleasure for both days of the event. The link to the stream is provided below. 

You can expect some high level MK9 action at this event. With $10,000 up for grabs for 1st place, there better be! Competitors from all over are expected to be there, including Justin Wong, a well known competitor in various fighters such as, Super Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs Capcom 3.

http://justin.tv/teamsp00ky

Lineage only has two months left to live.

Lineage, an MMORPG I never played or cared for, is being shut down after a decade on June 29th.

Developer NCSoft said that the game is "no longer financially viable in the west". There is a little bit of good news though, for those of you who happen to be affected emotionally by this.

For the next two months, all existing accounts get to play for free and the developers have "lots of great events" planned, up until the closing of its NA servers. Additionally, long time Lineage players will receive some type of "Player Appreciation Awards" which allows them to try some other NCSoft titles for free. Such as Aion and Lineage II.

Mortal Kombat Kollection announced for PSN and XBLA

The time has Kome! Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 will be available this late summer in a complete package.

For just $9.99 or 800 MS points, Other Ocean and NetherRealm Studios plan to bring you all the classic bloody action with some online play, leaderboards and hopefully some type of lobby.

I honestly think Warner Bros. picked a good time to announce this. With the success of the recently released Mortal Kombat 9, I am sure fans of the franchise will flock to this download when it becomes available.

Brink Movin On Up!

Anyone who's been paying attention to BossVG (and BossTalk) for a while now might notice that we're all very excited for Brink.

Thankfully, we won't have to wait much longer for Brink. Originally scheduled for a late-May release, they moved the release date up to May 10th for US, 13 for EU/AU:



I have to say, I'm extremely excited for this game myself, as it looks like it takes a queue from Mirror's Edge and gives you high mobility, but then adds in the FPS gameplay everyone knows and loves.

And just in case you haven't seen the trailer yet:

Arrival Mass Effect DLC review

New team member Ryan the 'Hood' reviews the newest Mass Effect 2 DLC.

Dragon Age 2

Check out the video review done by Foe @ bossvg!

Warhammer 40k Dev Diary #1

Relic (via Machinema) posted their first dev diary for Warhammer 40k Space Marine. I know a few people who are in to Warhammer, even if I am not personally, but I have to say that this game looks like a lot of fun. It appears (from the footage I've seen) to be a faster-paced Gears of War type of game.


In their first Dev Diary, Relic/THQ talk a little bit about the story for the game, as well as the setting and characters, which is definitely informative for those who don't know much about the WH40k universe.

The main (new) piece of information I took away from this was that it is set to be released August 2011, though I'm not sure whether or not that had been announced at an earlier time.

Now, where's our 40K MMO?

(Big kudos to Rob Westwood (@robdesignguy) lead UI developer on Space Marine for the tip via twitter!)