Daily Blips: Huge GameStop sale, (Finally) New Mortal Kombat Movie, Hello Kitty Mario, and More

Gaming sales are pretty great, right? Of course. Though we’ve noticed big titles that don’t sell get their price dropped later on. So if you kids are smart, you won’t buy any game you want until it goes on sale 6-12 months down the line. Yeah, we’re money-saving geniuses.

News Blips:

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• Buy crappy and overstocked games for cheap. Gaming retailer GameStop is putting on a small, no, sorry, HUGE, sale for the summer. How big? Well, you can get games like this for 20 bones. Yeah, huge. [Joystiq]

• New Mortal Kombat movie proves there is a god. We were afraid the long-rumored third Mortal Kombat movie would never come out, but the actor (who we refuse to believe is playing a part) portraying Scorpion says the flick will start filming this September. Maestro, cue that infectious techno beat. [GameSpot]

• Germans are gonna love this one: Carcassonne coming to DS. Popular German board game Carcassonne is on its way to the DS later this year. Oh, and in case you haven’t played the real version (don’t tell the Germans!), it’s also on Xbox Live Arcade. Now if only someone would make a DS version of this board game. [Kotaku]

• Fighting Fantasy is neither a fighting game nor a fighting Final Fantasy game. But in the DS first-person role-playing game Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain there is, uh, fantasy fighting (why the hell didn’t they just call it that?). It’s apprently based on a book series in England, too. But we’re not British nor do we know what a “book” is, so how would we know? [1UP]

Hit the jump for some video blips, including more WW2 fighting in Battlefield: 1943, Spartan-like warriors in Star Wars: The Old Republic, Hello Kitty Mario and Luigi, and…more.

Video Blips:

• Battlefield: 1943 is a World War 2 game. We bet you’re excited.

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• Learn about Mandalorians in Star Wars: The Old Republic. They’re like Spartans without the man-kissing.

 

• People fight sloths in Dragon Age: Origins. Aren’t sloths supposed to be lazy?

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Cultural Blip:

• Hello Cutey: Mario and Luigi papercraft. This should fill your obligatory cute quota of the day: Mario and Luigi dressed up in paper to look like Hello Kitty. [technabob]

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