<b>April Fools</b> Sorry but unfortunately this wasn't a real product, but to read more about the hard work we put into it <a href="http://www.trmk.org/news/11406/trmk_behind_the_story_april_fools_2008.html">check out our post April Fools day recap.</a>
<b>Mortal Kombat</b> co-creator <b>Ed Boon</b> updated his personal website, <a href="http://www.noob.com">noob.com</a> with a variety of things. But most importantly, the coded message of TOUCH seems to carry a little more weight than everything else on the site. We investigated the TOUCH word with our sources and unearthed a shocking revelation. <b>Midway</b> is working on bringing the <b>Mortal Kombat</b> universe to <b>Apple's iPhone / iPod Touch</b> platform. <b>Apple</b> recently <a href="http://gizmodo.com/364727/apple-reveals-iphone-sdk">announced plans</a> to allow developers to create their own native applications for the <b>iPhone / iPod Touch</b> and several game companies, including <b>EA</b> and <b>Sega</b>, are developing games for the powerful platform. We asked our sources about the TOUCH message on <b>Boon's</b> website and revealed to us that indeed <b>Midway</b> is also going to capitalize on the booming <b>iPhone</b> install base.
Since the message was already leaked by <b>Boon</b> on his website, our source was able to provide us this exclusive video of a prototype build of <b>Mortal Kombat Touch</b>.
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As you can see, the game uses the <b>iPhone's</b> tilt sensing capability to move your character around the screen. Along the perimeter of the screen are the attack buttons and touching anywhere but in the corners is the block button. While the video clip features the <b>Dead Pool</b> stage and <b>Kitana</b> from <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mk2/">Mortal Kombat 2</a> the opponent is <b>Kabal</b> from <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/umk3/">MK3/UMK3</a>. This could mean that we could see a version of <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mkt/">Mortal Kombat Trilogy</a> being ported over to the <b>iPhone</b>.
While this is quite the revelation, this doesn't have anything to do with the <b>"Mortal Kombat 8"</b>, the next-generation re-visioning of the <b>Mortal Kombat</b> franchise. In a few more weeks on <b>April 17</b> all will be revealed at <b>Midway's Gamers Day</b> in <b>Las Vegas</b>. In the meantime, check out a better screenshot of the game's launch icon on the <b>iPhone's</b> springboard on our temporary <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mktouch/">Mortal Kombat Touch GameRealm</b>.
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<b>Mortal Kombat</b> co-creator <b>Ed Boon</b> updated his personal website, <a href="http://www.noob.com">noob.com</a> with a variety of things. But most importantly, the coded message of TOUCH seems to carry a little more weight than everything else on the site. We investigated the TOUCH word with our sources and unearthed a shocking revelation. <b>Midway</b> is working on bringing the <b>Mortal Kombat</b> universe to <b>Apple's iPhone / iPod Touch</b> platform. <b>Apple</b> recently <a href="http://gizmodo.com/364727/apple-reveals-iphone-sdk">announced plans</a> to allow developers to create their own native applications for the <b>iPhone / iPod Touch</b> and several game companies, including <b>EA</b> and <b>Sega</b>, are developing games for the powerful platform. We asked our sources about the TOUCH message on <b>Boon's</b> website and revealed to us that indeed <b>Midway</b> is also going to capitalize on the booming <b>iPhone</b> install base.
Since the message was already leaked by <b>Boon</b> on his website, our source was able to provide us this exclusive video of a prototype build of <b>Mortal Kombat Touch</b>.
<center><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trmk.org/embed/swfobject.js"></script> <div id="playerMKT"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</div> <script type="text/javascript">var so = new SWFObject('http://www.trmk.org/embed/mediaplayer.swf','mpl','320','240','8'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addVariable('height','240'); so.addVariable('width','320'); so.addVariable('displayheight',240); so.addVariable('file','http://www.trmk.org/video/mkt_proto_leak.flv'); so.addVariable('image','http://www.trmk.org/games/mktouch/IconOnIPod.jpg'); so.addVariable('backcolor','0x0000BB'); so.addVariable('frontcolor','0x00FF00'); so.addVariable('lightcolor','0xFFFF00'); so.addVariable('screencolor','0x222222'); so.addVariable('searchbar','false'); so.write('playerMKT');</script><a href="http://www.trmk.org/video/mkt_proto_leak.mp4">View video encoded for iPhone/iPod Touch (.mp4)</a></center>
As you can see, the game uses the <b>iPhone's</b> tilt sensing capability to move your character around the screen. Along the perimeter of the screen are the attack buttons and touching anywhere but in the corners is the block button. While the video clip features the <b>Dead Pool</b> stage and <b>Kitana</b> from <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mk2/">Mortal Kombat 2</a> the opponent is <b>Kabal</b> from <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/umk3/">MK3/UMK3</a>. This could mean that we could see a version of <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mkt/">Mortal Kombat Trilogy</a> being ported over to the <b>iPhone</b>.
While this is quite the revelation, this doesn't have anything to do with the <b>"Mortal Kombat 8"</b>, the next-generation re-visioning of the <b>Mortal Kombat</b> franchise. In a few more weeks on <b>April 17</b> all will be revealed at <b>Midway's Gamers Day</b> in <b>Las Vegas</b>. In the meantime, check out a better screenshot of the game's launch icon on the <b>iPhone's</b> springboard on our temporary <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mktouch/">Mortal Kombat Touch GameRealm</b>.
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