June 5th, 2014
(center)(iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/k2daAAK5qWo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen)(/iframe)(/center)(br /)(br /)Good news for fans of the the previous Mortal Kombat reboot from a few years back: A new installment is set to release next year.(br /)(br /)Fresh from the success that was the aforementioned Mortal Kombat game, Warner Brothers is ready to dive back into the hyper-violent (Nether)world of fast fists and brutal Fatalities. We'll learn more next week when the game debuts at E3, although it has already been confirmed that the game will be released on PC, PS3/PS4, and Xbox 360/One. Sorry Nintendo, no room for decapitations and evisceration in the Mushroom Kingdom I guess.(br /)(br /)In the meantime, check out the very polished albeit disturbingly violent trailer above and let us know how excited you are for E3!(br /)(br /)(i)Make no mistake, the suppression of the urge to fill the preceding paragraphs with Mortal Kombat puns was a real test of might.(/i)
(br /)(br /)Source: (a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2014/06/02/mortal-kombat-x-announced/")Joystiq(/a)
May 23rd, 2014
(center)(iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NyVO0NLoLWE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen)(/iframe)(/center)(br /)While the live-action web series has been long in the making, today is the day that fighting game fans everywhere get to watch their favorite Street Fighters duke it out in a medium other than computer generated pixels.(br /)(br /)And no, we shall not speak of a certain Street Fighter movie which (strike)disappointed(/strike) debuted in theaters everywhere in 1994.(br /)(br /)
The new series, (i)Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist(/i), weighs in at a healthy twelve episodes, all of which can be watched in the full post. As you can guess from the teaser trailer above, the story centers around the legendary friendship between martial artists Ryu and Ken as they train and grow under the same master.
(br /)(br /)Continue reading to check out new web series in its entirety.
April 4th, 2014
(center)(iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5bPJrbzjLls" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen)(/iframe)(/center)(br /)(br /)Finally, the time has come for an official trailer to everyone's favorite cinematic mash-up of action heroes of yore and their latter-day counterparts. The end result? It would seem we can expect more of the same over-the-top action goodness and smile-inducing cameos that we've come to expect from (i)The Expendables(/i) franchise. Which can be a good or bad thing depending on which side of the action movie theater you choose to park your tank.(br /)(br /)This first of (I'm sure) several trailers gives a solid rundown of the cast, though any story details and/or spoilers have been cleverly disguised amongst the clamor of gunfire and assault of biceps. The most surprising new name on the list? Probably Kelsey Grammer. Not to critique too harshly, but his strongest action movie credential is looking like (i)Down Periscope(/i).(br /)(br /)Astute readers of the KarateMart.com Martial Arts Blog will notice that we (a href="http://www.karatemart.com/blog/9-expendables-2-posters-that-should-have-been")successfully predicted(/a) the casting of one new team member. Now if only we could harness our powers for good...(br /)(br /)So sit back, tune the speaker level to eleven, your brain-power to three, and let Mr. Billy Squire lead you through the lands of action movie fun. It's Friday.
April 1st, 2014
(center)(iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_tiTVFrYeKc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen)(/iframe)(/center)(br /)(br /)Fret not dear KarateMart.com Blog readers. We can at last sleep peacefully, knowing that the answer to one of life's greatest questions has been discovered. I refer of course to the the question "What would a video of Mike Tyson clips edited with Street Fighter sound effects look like?"
(br /)(br /)Short answer: Amazing.
March 27th, 2014
(center)(iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nCjsWpM9zFU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen)(/iframe)(/center)(br /)(br /)Didn't want to (a href="http://www.karatemart.com/blog/watch-captain-america-the-winter-soldier-get-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles")wait another day(/a) before laying eyes on the new Ninja Turtles trailer? Yeah, neither did we.(br /)(br /)Luckily, the internets heard our cries and obliged us by releasing the first peeks at our mutant heroes this morning. The end result? It's...interesting.
