Almost four years ago, a fan made Mortal Kombat short made its way online which lead to both a resurgence in interest in Mortal Kombat and eventually two seasons of Mortal Kombat: Legacy which lived on the Machinima YouTube channel. While there were some hiccups in the storytelling and even continuity between seasons, no one could argue that Machinima put major promotion behind the series and laud its success.

Now, in a world where you’ll seemingly never see Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat on consoles, MK’s age old nemesis finds its way too to the Machinima channel with Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist. Backed by Capcom and Honda (which still leaves one’s head reeling), Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist will debut on the Machinima channel on May 23rd. The narrative will follow series’ favorites Ken and Ryu in their training under their master Gōken before the events of the world warrior tournament come to pass.

As seen in the trailer, Akuma will also make his way into the series and will actually be played by the show’s creator Joey Ansah. In addition to living on the YouTube channel, Content Media says it will also bring it to TV, on-demand, DVD and Blu-ray.

They may be this generation’s Jackass but they aren’t yet a household name… yet. Vitalyzdtv, Roman Atwood and Dennis Roady have about 10,000,000 subscribers and have gotten close to a billion views on their YouTube channels but the trio of pranksters aren’t satisfied with just being on top of the YouTube prank world. They want something bigger. And definitely a bigger screen.

The prank trio is pairing up with Collective Digital Studio to produce a movie called Natural Born Pranksters. The chief content officer for CDS Gary Binkow told the Hollywood Reporter, “We’re really interested in working with creative, dynamic influencers… Roman, Vitaly and Dennis are at the pinnacle of this genre. They have a really loyal and engaged fan base. We thought (the film) was a really great opportunity to tap into that.”

With House of Cards, Netflix established itself as a major player for original drama and raised the bar for online series.pay services. With others like Amazon Prime struggling to catch up, Netflix is about to release the second season of its flagship drama.

When last we left Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood he was about to become the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States. How will he use this new power to better serve his own ends, those of his wife and the rest of his political cronies while also dodging the wrath of a spurned ex-lover who also happens to be a political reporter?

Guess that’s just what Season 2 will be all about. To help get you ready, we’ve got several previews for the new season Check them out after the break.

Netflix will release all episodes of Season 2 of House of Cards on Friday.

Welcome back for another episode of Mixers from the team of Whiskey & Waffles. This episode the adult geek cocktail competition takes on TV with JC tackling the Game of Thrones from HBO with his creation known as the Lanister and WallE brings his love of Doctor Who to the bar with his appropriate named Who Bomb. To help WallE and JC in their alcoholic endeavor is Tom, one half of the production house and YouTube channel known as Mars Rising Films.

Mars Rising Films focus on special effect videos similar to the style of that of FreddieW’s Rocket Jump or Corridor Digital with a geek slant. Tom and his partner Jon have recently released a Wii U Taken parody and brought Mario and Link to the bar to compare battle scars. Most notably, Mars Rising Films have signed on to work with the Epic Meal Time guys for a series known as the Legend of Muscles Glasses.

Normally the Kickstarter Watch focuses on projects that are still in need of funding. This one is another kind of watch entirely since if you’ve been on YouTube over the past week, it’s been pretty much impossible to miss this one: Kung Fury.

Shot in a style very similar to that of YouTuber Mike Diva’s Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: The Movie, Kung Fury is heavily 80’s inspired with everything from its Ghostbusters-esque power chord to filters on top of filters on top of filters and graphics that’d make the Lawnmower Man cry (one background graphic even looks like the loading screen from the video game version of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon).

Kung Fu, Nazis, Hitler, Thor, a Viking girl with machine guns and dinosaurs. How could this not be awesome. In just over a week, this trailer has garnered just about 5,000,000 views on YouTube.

YouTube has more than its fair share of short form series. It also has heaps and heaps of video game content. But with the exception of a few standouts like Freddie Wong’s Video Game High School, there aren’t many great examples of gaming and short form series together.

Someone trying to change that is Petros L. Ioannou and his series My Life as a Video Game. Funded by a Kickstarter that raised $32,000, My Life as a Video Game will be a 9 episode first season that explores what happens when gamer Don DeWitt, played by Petros, gets too into the game and is pulled in to a world where games are real life.

Exploring multiple gaming genres, Don finds Kera Althorn (Jennifer Polansky) and is guided by the MENU System (Brent Black, better known on YouTube as BrentalFloss) through this pixel infused world. FPS, side scrolling beat ’em up and space combat all look to be fair game in this epic launched on Petros’ YouTube channel LeonUnity. You can head there now to check out the first two episodes of My Life as a Video Game or check them out after the jump.

Westeros is not a happy place. If you’ve watched Game of Thrones or read it, you know that it’s not all sunshine and puppies. Actually the only reference to puppies was the suggestion of the demented Geoffrey being gleeful because he had killed a bunch of them. But that is what makes Bad Lip Reading’s Medieval Fun-Time World so damn good. While some Bad Lip Reading had people saying completely nonsensical things, this Game of Thrones version tells a fantastic story of a Westeros from the first season of Game of Thrones that is VERY different from what the show’s audience is used to.

Keeping both the show and the video below spoiler free, Medieval Land Fun-Time World is actually what one would expect from its name. Meet a cast of characters who are all actors and employees of a medieval theme park where hilarity ensues. Just like Game of Thrones right? It feels like your average comedy flick with guys like Eddie the leader and the jive talking Terry but for those who know the story of the Game of Thrones world, it makes these out of place dubs so much funnier.

After an epic launch party at the YouTube Space LA on Wednesday night featuring cast, crew and fans, the second season of Video Game High School launched on YouTube and FreddieW’s Rocketjump.com. After over $800,000 in Kickstarter backing from his loyal fanbase, Freddie Wong and his team put together the second season of his digitally distributed show about a world where gamers are the star athletes and the most prestigious school to attend before going pro is known simply as Video Game High School.

Season 2 of VHGS follows Brian D, Jenny Matrix, Ted Wong and Ki as they continue their path toward being pro gamers while deal with all the trials and tribulations of high school like making it to class on time, their spot on the team and of course, first love. The series also features cameos from various YouTube and non-YouTube celebrities like Epic Meal Time’s Harley Morenstein as the school’s dean, Zachary Levi as the FPS 101 teacher and even Stan Lee in the first episode of the second season.

A few years ago, we used to watch Machinima, original content created using game engines and screen captures. Red vs. Blue became the quintessential example of it, taking assets from Halo and creating completely new stories unrelated to the lore of the game. These days, game capture software has led to a newer and simpler concept that dominates the world of YouTube: Let’s Play.

The popularity of Let’s Play is an intriguing concept. People watch for hours on their computer as another person plays a game. Usually there is commentary from the player over it and in some cases there’s a webcam capturing the visual reactions of the player.

These Let’s Players aren’t even particularly skilled players as much as they are personalities. Amazingly, some of these Let’s Players have become the top earners on YouTube.

Do you have a friend who picks apart every movie they see? Or maybe that friend is you? Well, let it be known that you aren’t the only one. And let it be known, you can go somewhere doing it.

If you have heard of a little site by the name of YouTube, you may want to check out the channel CinemaSins. In about six months, CinemaSins has gained close to 400,000 subscribers and over thirty million views just by being “that guy” who decides to tear apart the hard work of so many creative people. (I kind of want his job.)

In this week’s installment, CinemaSins takes a look at what some could consider “low hanging fruit.” Let’s face it, Green Lantern was not a great movie. In fact, it was a pretty bad movie by all stretches of the imagination. And not just for the poor story, poor acting and poor effects…. Actually those are all the reasons it was bad. But CinemaSins helps articulate just what those problems are unlike most of us who are all just so appalled by it that our only response is “It sucks.”