At a press event in Los Angeles held yesterday, Midwayannouced that they were expanding their support for Microsoft's Xbox 360 game download service by adding five more classic arcade games to the Xbox Live Arcade. Amongst the new games to be added to Midway's portfolio of Xbox downloads is a game which has never appeared in a Midway Arcade Treasures series, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. While no other details were mentioned other than the titles of the games, the announcement noted that the games were to be released during this year.
"We've been generally surprised by the response rate...the paid downloads are more than we expected," Midway CEO David Zucker told GameSpot. "It's not going to change our economic success overnight, but it's a nice little business on the side, and we're glad that people are happy with the product." Midway's chief executive also expressed interest in doing similar projects with the PlayStation 3 and Revolution, should they provide that functionality.
While it is not Mortal Kombat II, it would be quite interesting to see what type of multiplayer options, if any, Midway decides to include into Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Another issue to keep track of is whether or not the Ultimate Kombat Kodes persist after entering them and unlocking Ermac, Classic Sub-Zero and Millena, unlike Smoke in the Midway Arcade Treasures version of Mortal Kombat 3.
At a press event in Los Angeles held yesterday, Midway annouced that they were expanding their support for Microsoft's Xbox 360 game download service by adding five more classic arcade games to the Xbox Live Arcade. Amongst the new games to be added to Midway's portfolio of Xbox downloads is a game which has never appeared in a Midway Arcade Treasures series, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. While no other details were mentioned other than the titles of the games, the announcement noted that the games were to be released during this year.
