When I was 5 years old one of the very first games I ever played was Mortal Kombat for Super Nintendo. I accredit it as being the game that started it all for me. Since that time, there have only been one or two versions of Mortal Kombat that I would consider its equal, but nothing that really did the original justice. This is primarily due to the fact that the games veered too far from the origins of its 2D ancestor, venturing into the land of 3D and an excess of unrecognizable characters. Now after more than a decade and a half, the critics have spoken, and Mortal Kombat 9 has finally lived up to its name.

With the release of a completely revamped movie due later in 2011, a state of the art graphics engine, powering a 2D side-scrolling fighting game, there is no doubt that Mortal Kombat is back, and with a vengeance! If you and your buddies are looking for a game to settle bets, arguments, and your looking for peaceful solution, why not

Evil Controller mods for Modern Warfare and Black Ops, what it can possibly do for Modern Warfare 3.

So with talk of Modern Warfare 3 on the way and talks that it will be previewed at E3 this year, we here at Evil began thinking about how our controllers will help everyone's experience, as our controllers in the past have enhanced everyone's experience in all games in the Call of Duty series. So why not take a gander at what our controllers offer for games like Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops?

The next installment in the Call of Duty series seems to be getting closer.

So looks like things are picking up for Activision and Infinity Ward, as they released a statement (you can find it here on Kotaku) that the next installment in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series will be pushing the envelope when it comes to what people expect. So knowing the series, they're going to go beyond the Michael Bay-like explosions and second-by-second action-filled storyline events, which is awesome.

The storyline is what I'm really fixated on. A lot of people call the

Focus on "Sonic Generations" and the Sonic the Hedgehog Series.

It's hard to believe it's been TWENTY YEARS since Sega introduced Sonic the Hedgehog andhis fast-paced action to the video game audience of the 1990s and began a long-running rivalry with a plumber named Mario (though now they're best friends via racing, brawling, and sports). Sega decided to celebrate those twenty great years by teaming up the Sonic of my years (the shorter-legged Genesis version) with the Sonic of today (the one you see in Sonic 4 and in Smash Bros. Brawl).

In Sonic generations, both generations of Sonic the Hedgehog will team up and run themselves through rebuilt HD versions of old classic levels and modern

Brink has been in and out of the media for quite some time. I don't think people really know what to make of it. The developers' diary reveals a game that wants to be a little bit of everything. Splash Damage refers to it as a genre bending title and I can see why. Brink has a little bit of Mirror's Edge, it has some Team Fortress 2, and it definitely has some SOCOM elements to it as well. The developers say it breaks apart the barrier between a single player game and a multiplayer one, but what does that mean exactly?

Hyperbole aside. Brink appears to be a squad based shooter with a cool and unique art style that's almost a love child between Borderlands and Team Fortress 2. I like it, I dig the way it looks, but with the new Call of Duty map pack, will we have time to get invested? Brink definitely offers more complexity then what you find in other FPSes. It's a class based shooter that can become dangerously addictive. Everything you play under

With PSN having problems, some customers think of switching.

When things of unwanted situations occur to a multitude of people, a number of them usually decide to make the switch to another alternative. Most of the time, people come back after the problem has been fixed, they calmed down, or wasn't satisfied with the other side. The Playstation Network problem has been the latest target of this kind of behavior.

In a survey taken this past week,surveyors commissioned by the site CouponCodes4U asked 2,132 US Residents about their thoughts on the network

Rising Gas Prices & Rising DLC content prices.

So on the third of May, Treyarch will bereleasingthe "Escalation" map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Like the First Strike DLC pack, it will cost you around $15.00 (that's about 1200 Microsoft Points).

When the First Strike DLC content came out, a large number of people complained about it being too high of a price for a few maps and a number of those who did buy the pack complained that they didn't get their $15.00

Not Your Average Star Wars Themed Bed

Nothing ever sounds better to me than a nap! I am a nap queen! And Kayla Kromer is known for being the maker of the famous Hamburger Bed.

But now she is back with a new creation, the Millennium Falcon Bed.

Nostalgia about Chuck E. Cheese and Arcades

I remember when I was a young lad, I remembered living in my rural town of Ottawa, Illinois. At times, my family would have to make trips to the suburb towns of Chicago like Schaumburg, Oakbrook, and others. I remember my mom, my sisters, and I would head to Joliet to get our car repaired. Right next door to the dealership was a Chuck E. Cheese (previously known as Showbiz Pizza, before it's merge in the early 1990s). I'd beg my mom to take us and while sometimes my sisters disagreed, we went.

Places like these

Evil Ambassador Copiozo reflects on Mortal Kombat in his life.

For those of you who don't know, I'm 27 years old, meaning I was born in 1984. Mortal Kombat came out in about 1993 for the Sega Genesis & the SNES (It came out in arcades in 1992 but I didn't have access to it due to my rural Illinois town's arcade had zip). So doing the math, I was about nine years old when MK was reached to the masses via the consoles. I had the SNES version and my friend Tony had the Genesis version. We were hooked and were the bee's knees of our Catholic grade school of St. Columba because