Recently watching the live action test trailer (multiple times) got me excited about Mortal Kombat again. That rushing feeling of yelling, "Get over here!!" when I'm actually just lassoing someone in Red Dead Redemption. So what's a person to do with such strong emotions at the moment? Play the theme song over and over again? Did that. Well, I thought I'd buy Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on Xbox Live Arcade. That's when I found out something horrible... it was gone! What. The. ****.

Well apparently after Midway went kaput, due to certain publishing rights, it was taken off XBLA. Sigh. Now I may be forced to purchase the gimmick that is Mortal Kombat: Armageddon on the PS2 just for UMK3. The unlocks can't even be saved in that version. Is that really the reason of why it was taken off? I can't be sure, but is Mortal Kombat 2 still on PSN? Some have said it's still available. So can it be that managment on XBL took if off for some other reason?

A similar case happened with Double Dragon on XBL. When publisher Empire Interactive closed down, Double Dragon was taken off Live. Being a fan of the game, thankfully I bought it a while ago way before it got delisted. But a new problem arises. What if somehow it gets deleted? I will be upgrading to a 250 gb HDD later this year, and I've heard transfers weren't always so smooth with content corrupting and forcing others to download it in the marketplace again. Now this may be the paranoia talking, but I do have a history of doing some brainless things like deleting a Conan O'Brien Clip that's no longer available... ANYWHERE! For now, that is. But STILL!

What's it like now that you know you'll never be able to play this redrawn HD version? Huh, indifferent you say? Oh, okay.

Now the thought of Digitally distributed games/DLC strikes me with more fear than ever before. Okay, that's an exaggeration. It's a only a little bit of fear. Though even a little bit can go a long way in screwing with your purchase decisions. How should I or anyone else know some games would not be available later on? I like to wait for prices to go down and I don't want to be forced to buy every single one now. Does this mainly affect XBL users? Possibly on PSN and Wii? In any way, this is something that wouldn't be such a problem with hard copies. Even if a pubisher goes out of business, hard copies are still available and even when sold out, that's when a used copy can make it's use. On a similar subject, now I feel like I have to be one of those kind of people who wait for GOTY Editions with all the DLC packed in already. Content being corrupted or deleted has begun to give me shivers.

I still feel like DLC can do some great things with it's sheer convenience even though so many publishers are capitalizing on it (leaving our wallets empty) and the cracks with the whole publisher expiriation (or so they say) and.... wait, what was I saying again? Oh yes, screw DLC. SCREW IT!

*Waits for Earthworm Jim HD to complete download*