Mortal Kombat 1 Reveals Peacemaker Gameplay and Teases New Cameo

There’s plenty of genuinely good ongoing TV to watch this week: Shōgun continues apace (with new episodes dropping on Tuesdays), Abbott Elementary is still making its way through the school year (Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST), and The Gentlemen is all on Netflix, but hey, maybe you’re still working your way through it! But that doesn’t mean there’s not new TV coming this week — and more good TV coming fresh to a screen near you.

Three months after the release of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, developer Massive Entertainment unveiled Title Updates 3 and 3.1, two major patches that add various quality-of-life improvements and fix gameplay issues. With the regular addition of new features and bug fixes, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora keeps on improving the overall gameplay experience for players who want to explore the main planet from the Avatar universe.

Fans of the sewer dwelling heroes in a half-shell have dined as well as Leonardo on an entire pepperoni pizza (with stuffed crust, of course) of late, but there’s a wave of more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles news to feast on as details of yet another game, Mutants Unleashed, have been revealed.

Microsoft held its second Xbox Partner Preview event on Wednesday.

NetherRealm Studios has released a new Mortal Kombat 1 video featuring actor and wrestler as he discusses his DLC character, Peacemaker. The character is now available to purchase for anyone who didn’t already have him through the game‘s Season Pass.

Formally addressing community unrest stirred in part by recent comments from its CEO, Temtem developer Crema released a lengthy statement explaining the future of the game, why it's sort of but also not really an MMO, as well as the other games it's working on.

This is a quiet week on TV, especially compared to the bonanza in theaters that is Dune: Part Twoor the ongoing fervor around Helldivers 2 (shoutout to those servers).

February is coming to a close, and with it, more awards contenders are heading to streaming services with the Oscars around the corner.

Like previous entries in the series, Mortal Kombat 1 is rolling out plenty of DLC fighters, with the game’s first “Kombat Pack” including Omni-Man from Invincible, Quan Chi, Peacemaker from Suicide Squad, Ermac, Homelander from The Boys, and Takahashi Takeda.

Pokemon GO is teasing a major Ultra Beast-focused event for the game's fourteenth season, including both the return of previously featured Ultra Beasts and brand-new introductions. As the mega-popular mobile game from Niantic winds down its Hisui-focused season, the spinoff of the beloved monster-catching franchise is already getting fans excited about what's to come. Pokemon GO recently announced «World of Wonders» as its next season, teasing Ultra Beasts, Kanto-themed events and more for Season 14. Now, the game is hinting at which Ultra Beasts will be joining the game.

The tropical farming sim, , was released several months ago, but that hasn't slowed the developers down any. Recently, the team shared a roadmap of planned content for the rest of 2024. These aren't small patches either, and will feature more story content, clothing options, multiplayer functionality, a lot of changes to how children are handled in the game, and even introduce romantic relationships with the Merfolk.

NetherRelam has just released the patch notes for the new Peacemaker update, which is now available in Early Access to those who purchased the game’s Premium Edition. While he was once a relatively obscure DC Comics antihero, Peacemaker (real name Christopher Smith) has garnered mainstream attention over the past few years thanks to WWE star John Cena’s performance in DC Extended Universe projects like The Suicide Squad and the Peacemaker series on Max. This has led to Peacemaker being included as a DLC guest fighter in Mortal Kombat 1 alongside the previously released Omni-Man and the upcoming Homelander.