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We're unsure whether he can rip his face off and breathe fire, too

Odyssey, a large expansion for space exploration simulator Elite Dangerous, launched last week as a buggy mess. This led to a lot of fan backlash and negative Steam reviews. In response to these issues, developer Frontier Developments’ CEO apologized for the terrible launch.

Screenshot: HBOMax Well, this is a real bummer way to start off the week, but let’s get into it. One of the coolest moments in the new Mortal Kombat movie was also the coolest moment in the trailer for the new Mortal Kombat movie: Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim) is engaged in battle with his eternal arch-nemesis, Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada). Sub-Zero slices open Scorp’s chest, and as the blood spills forth from his enemy, he flash-freezes it into a deadly icicle and stabs Scorpion with it. Again: it...

Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid and actors Joe Taslim (Sub-Zero) and Lewis Tan (Cole Young) spoke to io9 about being fans of the video game series, martial arts, and how the film came about.

Photo: Jesse Kumin/Permission of Hock Wah Yeo With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was an open question whether the next-gen of gaming consoles were going to come with an optical drive at all. Physical games managed to avoid the grim reaper, for now, but little care is put into their packaging these days. A whole generation missed out on a time when you could walk into a Babbages and an encyclopedia-sized PC game box pr...