In many ways, fatalities are the very essence of Mortal Kombat. Bloody to the extreme, so vicious that they’re actually hilarious and that little extra dig in the ribs when you’ve beaten a friend and you want to rub your victory in their face. So how does a game like Mortal Kombat 11, which already features Baraka literally ripping the face off of an opponent, come up with those pugilistic punctuation points?

You look back at the impact that Mortal Kombat has had over the years, and there’s so much to write about. The technical breakthroughs, pissing off overzealous parents and being the benchmark for reboots. More than that though, I’ll always remember Mortal Kombat for something else: It was the one game that helped the fighting genre find its spine. And then ripped it out.

An open beta for the Mortal Kombat XL's multiplayer has surfaced on Steam. It’ll be running all weekend until 10:00am PDT on August the 29th (via Destructoid).

It looks like Mortal Kombat XL will make its way to PC, many months after it launched on console. Ed Boon teased the release in a tweet.

Since 2015 however, Mortal Kombat X has added several new fighters, DLC characters with their own signature extreme moves. Here’s how you can perform their visceral finishers:

A relentless and perfect killing machine. Absolute in its nature to survive at all costs as it utilises an entire arsenal of nightmare fuel phallic attacks to incapacitate its prey and introduce them to the worst face-hug in the history of cinema.

Sure, he may be one ugly mother-lover. But he's our ugly mother-lover in Mortal Kombat X.

The deadly Edenian returns to Mortal Kombat X, and believe you me, her boots were made for walking through your chest cavity.