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The Mortal Kombat🐉🩸episode of NPR’s “Consider This” is up! I’m honored to join pro player “LOSTyGIRL” and Ed Boon in this konversation about MK’s history, Mortal Kombat 1, and the franchise’s legacy. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/29/1198908290/consider-this-from-npr-draft-09-29-2023
Met up with the legendary KerriHoskins at the Cleveland Gaming Classic show! She was kind enough to sign copies of Long Live Mortal Kombat with me. Signed copies are available in limited quantities at booth #1630 today and online afterwards: dmpressbooks.com
Check out my review of Mortal Kombat 1 on the Shacknews front page! I found it to be a "radical reimagining of the 30-year mythology, and the most creative entry in the franchise" in years.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/137130/mortal-kombat-1-review-bloody-kreative
FPS: First Person Shooter is almost here! You know your movie is nearing release when it gets an IMDB page. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28681130/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Gaming First-World Problems
Replaying Super Mario World. I have 95 out of 96 exits. I’ve looked everywhere—well, obviously not everywhere—and I can’t find this damn exit. RIP.
If you'd have told 10-year-old me that John Romero
would one day call me "the foremost chronicler of FPS history," I'd have exploded into Quake-style gibs.
Join us at SDCC this Thursday at 4pm PT in room 25ABC for our discussion about his memoir, his games, and more.
An actual conversation between John Romero and me that really, truly, definitely happened. (Well, the personalization is real.)
I’ll be talking to the Icon of Sin himself at San Diego Comic Con on Thurs, 7/20, at 4pm PT in room 25ABC! Join us as we discuss his games; DOOM GUY, his memoir; and more.
📢ANNOUNCEMENT! I'll be at Comic Con next week to talk with John Romero about DOOM GUY, his games, and more. Join us for what's sure to be a fun conversation! Details here: https://comiccon2023.sched.com/event/1OWz9/do
