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March 7th, 2001
6:00 PM CST -
It appears that the end of Midway's presence in the arcade market is near. Midway announced on Tuesday that it has let go 60 employees within the coin-op division (Press Release). We later learned that these employees were specific to coin-op hardware and sales. Furthermore, reports on highwaygames, an amusement-industry specific website, confirm that Midway is indeed ceasing all arcade development, with exception to touchscreen games (Story). It appears that all projects that are adaptable to the console market have been moved to the home division. Mortal Kombat 5 is definitely a project that falls into this catagory. The MK team has been accumulating members recently and have quite a substantial size compared to past development projects. Questions are still in the air whether MK5 will still make it to arcades, but with an outsourced manufacturer; however, given the details of the size that the MK team has grown, it appears that focus has indeed shifted towards next-generation consoles. Special thanks to Jason Sizemore and Daniel Fisher for the heads up. We will have further reports as details emerge.

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March 30th, 2001
8:02 PM CST -
Midway.com has kicked off a new segment called 3rd Degree, which interviews members of Midway's own game development teams. The first guest for the first ever 3rd Degree segment is Mortal Kombat co-creator, Ed Boon (Interview). There is also a short video segment of this interview split into 4 parts. The first part is online now. Keep checking Midway.com weekly for the remaining parts of the video interview. Remember that these interviews are conducted with Midway's own employees and hosted on their own website, so don't expect any groundbreaking Mortal Kombat 5 info just yet.

On a related note, MortalKombat.com has word of plans to conduct a chat with Ed Boon during the second week of April. As soon as a solid time is set we'll let you know. Thanks CrAzY_EdDiE.
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