Video Games: Fatality for Midway

Midway filed for Chapter 11, they sold of publishing rights to their Vin Diesel starring "Wheelman" game and now they may part with their most popular franchise of all.

"Mortal Kombat" has been the company's flagship franchise supporting 17 games in it's 17 year history. But now in order to save themselves from financial meltdown the Chicago based Midway is looking for someone to take Sub-Zero and company off their hands.

This move calls into question the status of the forthcoming "Mortal Kombat 9" and more importantly how Midway plans to recover with the lack of its most lucrative franchise.

Kotaku is reporting that the sale would help the company reach a milestone that would result in nearly 4 million dollars being paid out to several employees. Which should upset the many laid off workers who are claiming that Midway has shorted them on promised pay at the event of their release.

Film: 20 Movies in 20 Days

On a Long Island Railroad train bound for Manhattan fellow Fanboyer Mister Chapel and I discovered something disheartening. 

We had seen a shockingly small amount of movies this year. 

Now, in the in the interest of full disclosure I must say that Mister Chapel was the more prolific movie watcher. With my most prosperous year topping out at about 100 and his, well, I'll let him expand on his own record because I don't think I can do it justice.

But this year our lists were hovering at about half my best total. And with the Oscars fast approaching we felt as if our usual top ten lists would be meaningless with such a small pool to pick from. 

To remedy that problem we created the  20 Movies in 20 Days challenge.  Which is, not surprisingly, exactly what it sounds like.  Our lists consist of movies that were released January 1, 2008  to December 31, 2008. 

We decided on 15 movies that we would both see and I chose 5 unique movies for Mister Chapel and he decided on 5 for me.  Both lists will be posted shortly.

These are movies we meant to see and missed, movies the other insisted we see and some are movies we think might be awful but we just need an opinion on.

Our mission ends February 3rd

The plan is to post small reviews for each film and to give our overall impressions of the experience of this kamikaze movie watching experience. Stay tuned.

Bobby Shortle

AKA.  Mister Pink