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Ultimate MK3 XBLA next month

Fighting to be seen.

Reports in Americaland pin Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3's Xbox Live Arcade release date down a bit better than we had before; according to GameSpot, Midway says it will join the Arcade line-up in November.

There it'll do battle, of course, with Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting, which remains among the ten most popular Live Arcade titles available - although Midway will presumably be hoping for a slightly better reaction to its online versus mode than Ca--pco--m-go--t-fo--r-its.

UMK3 is hardly the only Midway game on the way to Live Arcade in the future, incidentally - with the publisher having already pledged the likes of Paperboy and Defender, following releases of Gauntlet, Joust and Smash TV earlier in the console's lifespan.