Midway Games delisted from NYSE (no more MK!?)

http://www.edge-online.com/news/midway-delisted-from-nyse
http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2009/02/midway_delisted_from_new_york_stock_exchange-2.html#comments

Ah, Midway, and Mortal Kombat. Looks like it's the hara-kari fatality that had to happen due to the GFC. Didn't know what they were doing, apart from the DC vs MK, recently. No I know: fell down to a flat pancake.

This makes me a bit sad, as a lack of competition would make the next fighting games shit, but MK wasn't competition, so it doesn't affect me whatsoever.

 

No more Mortal Kombat? Well I did hear they weren't doing that well on the gaming.

 

keep kicking them while their down and out /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif

 

MK is still a lucrative franchise. If Midway can't sort themselves out (unlikely), someone else will pick it up. Square Enix and Electronic Arts are both in the market for a good (read: marketable) fighting game franchise.

 

I've never cared for the MK series but it's sad to see a gaming company go down like this.

 

At this time, Can we bow our heads[/size] and have a moment of silence for:

Kung Lao,Shang Tsung Shao Kahn, Sindel, Sub Zero, Goro, Liu Kang,
li Mei, John Cage, Sonya Blade,Raiden, Scorpion, Kano, Reptile, Jax Briggs, Baraka, Kitana, Mileena, Kintaro, Jade, Noob, Smoke,
Cyax, kabal, Nightwolf Sektor, Sheeva, Stryker, Motaro, Fujin,
Jarek, kai, Quan Chi, Reiko, Shinnok, Tanya, Blaze, Bo'Rai Cho, Drahmin, Frost, Hsu Hao, Kenshi, Mavado, Nitara, Moloch, Sareena,
Dairrius, Daegon, Ermac, Havik, Hotaru, Kobra, Kira, and Blaze

Let us wish them well. Oh Earth How have the mighty fallen and from whence shall they be avenged /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cry.gif

 

^ who the hell is Li Mei?!

 

Feck, google it. "MK Li Mei". She was actually my favorite char in Alliance

But this Midway dissolve could be a good thing. Maybe they'll sell off their IP's to have a bit of take-home money, and maybe some other developer will pick it up and make an MK game thats actually GOOD. Tournament-worthy, even (though I doubt it).

 

That explains why I don't know of her, I only played up to UMK3. Also what made it confusing is that masterpo wrote them in order of the game they appeared he in but I just looked again and he got a few mixed up.

I was like there's no Li Mei in MK2?!

 

Does this mean that there will be no:

MK vs Xmen?
MK vs Watchmen?

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How did MK vs DC sell? Is that what did it?

Midway was an American co right?