It'll be a good day to die online this summer, when Warner Bros. delivers the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC. It's a collection in the truest sense, too, bundling Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

The best part? It's only $9.99.

No, wait, the bestest part? All three will feature online play and leaderboards.

Yes, that's a tear running down my face.

== TEASER == Granted, some of you may have already downloaded previous updates of some of these titles, as UMK3 once had a stand-alone downloadable version exclusively available on Xbox Live, and MK II was available on PSN. However, both those titles were removed from their respective stores when Warner Bros. purchased the rights to the Mortal Kombat brand from Midway, so if you know what's good for you, you'll just forget you ever bought either of those versions and smile and nod to this announcement as if it were the first time any of these games were made available via a digital distribution network. Otherwise, Warner Bros. will cut you. Deep.

In celebration of this new kollection of fighters, PDP has designed a special version of their Mortal Kombat Fight Stick with a new button layout keyed to the design of the old games. The stick will be sold exclusively through GameStop, and retail for $129.99. Those who pre-order the sticks will receive a download code for the game when it releases.

While Mortal Kombat was, for all intents and purposes, the first three MK games smooshed together into one awesomely revamped package--certainly a far better effort than Mortal Kombat Trilogy was--one cannot help but be super excited by the notion playing all three of these arcade klassics online for a fairly low price. What say you, MK fans? You looking forward to a constant state of confusion as you feebly try to recall what fatality goes with which version of Sub-Zero?

(Alex Navarro also contributed to this story, because Patrick totally ganked it out from under him like a dirty ganker of Mortal Kombat stories. That sonuva...)

It'll be a good day to die online this summer, when Warner Bros. delivers the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC. It's a collection in the truest sense, too, bundling Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

The best part? It's only $9.99.

No, wait, the bestest part? All three will feature online play and leaderboards.

Yes, that's a tear running down my face.

== TEASER == Granted, some of you may have already downloaded previous updates of some of these titles, as UMK3 once had a stand-alone downloadable version exclusively available on Xbox Live, and MK II was available on PSN. However, both those titles were removed from their respective stores when Warner Bros. purchased the rights to the Mortal Kombat brand from Midway, so if you know what's good for you, you'll just forget you ever bought either of those versions and smile and nod to this announcement as if it were the first time any of these games were made available via a digital distribution network. Otherwise, Warner Bros. will cut you. Deep.

In celebration of this new kollection of fighters, PDP has designed a special version of their Mortal Kombat Fight Stick with a new button layout keyed to the design of the old games. The stick will be sold exclusively through GameStop, and retail for $129.99. Those who pre-order the sticks will receive a download code for the game when it releases.

While Mortal Kombat was, for all intents and purposes, the first three MK games smooshed together into one awesomely revamped package--certainly a far better effort than Mortal Kombat Trilogy was--one cannot help but be super excited by the notion playing all three of these arcade klassics online for a fairly low price. What say you, MK fans? You looking forward to a constant state of confusion as you feebly try to recall what fatality goes with which version of Sub-Zero?

(Alex Navarro also contributed to this story, because Patrick totally ganked it out from under him like a dirty ganker of Mortal Kombat stories. That sonuva...)

Awesome, if only I hadn't sold my xbox.

Oh dear God yes!

I see quite the TNT in the making

MK 1 online play, that will be interesting.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

WTB Steamworks support.

GET HYPE

So whatever happened to that HD remake disc that was rumored?

I missed out on Ultimate MK3, so this is awesome news!

AND PC!!!! AND PC!!! AND PC!!! aaaaaaAAAAAAAaAaaAaAAa!!!!!!!!!!11

Pretty cool, but honestly I'd rather see MK9 on PC than this

Let's just hope they let you program the controls this time. And that they use GGPO.

" Awesome, if only I hadn't sold my xbox.

edit: First?

"

" @Chabbs0: Sorry, I did have something to say, but I've been trying to get that damn quest forever. "

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit that's awesome. 

" Pretty cool, but honestly I'd rather see MK9 on PC than this "

Is it late summer yet? No? Dammit!

good, been wanting MK3 for PS3.  I hope the menus and such aren't as crappy as MK2 has.

fuck yea!! PC version too?!?!? FUCK YEAAA! MULTIPLAYER? FUCK YEA!!

Single Man Tear of Hope!

Alright! What took so long for this?

I want to play MK2 and MK3 online but I want to play MK1 online.

Now I feel like buying MK2 on the PSN was kinda stupid...

Wait, so they expect PSN to be back up by summer?

I already bought MK2 for PSN and UMK3 for XBLA. I don't think I need MK1, so I'm good.

But i already have these for sega/snes :(

Damn this industry, i can't stop throwing money at them.

Awesome!  See you all in the MK1 lobbies.

It seems there was another reason that they never put the MK stuff back up on the services.

PC play?

Awesome great price

Never got to play mk 2

Patrick, how much did Jeff and Brad flip out when they heard this?

" Let's just hope they let you program the controls this time. And that they use GGPO. "

Ultimate Mortal Kombat? Is that the one with Goro and Shao Kharn in it?

" @xobballox said:

" Pretty cool, but honestly I'd rather see MK9 on PC than this "

It will come, don't worry. "

Probably not picking this up, but it's cool that they're releasing it.

More Mortal Kombat goodness!?! All praise The Elder Gods!

" Wait, so they expect PSN to be back up by summer? "

Mortal Kombat on Steam? Yes please

Nice, 3 games for $10 is a great deal.

I'm so glad I didn't spend money on the standalone copy of MK2 on PSN.

hated MK2 on PSN...when it was first released as it was a absolute nightmare getting a online match, saying that i hated MK3 on xbox because of the d-pad and online issues as well....hopefully this latest renewed interest in the brand will make that and improvement....PC or Xbox for me though simply for the achievements 

So there is a God

This is all kinds of awesome, summer was going to be amazing anyway game wise.

now ps3 owners can double dip that mk2 goodness

Why didn't they name it Arkade Kollektion. ?

WOW. This is AMAZING news. It's awesome to know that MK is doing well enough for this kind of release. 

They should have thrown MK4 Gold on here too, that would be worth the price just for the endings.

Mortal Kombat link leads to MK9 and not the original MK...

I bet no cross-platform play though, that would have been killer.