Mortal Kombat 12 leaks and news
6 October 2022 —
Ed Boon has now said that you shouldn’t expect to see a Mortal Kombat 12 announcement as part of the MK30 anniversary. Instead, any reveal of a new game will be separate.
8 August 2022 —
With the EVO Championships taking place this week, Ed Boon spoke about what to expect from his studio and their games.
He confirmed that we won’t see anything from Mortal Kombat 12 at the show in a quote tweet, which you can see below:
14 June 2022 —
The latest leaks consist of so called insiders saying they expect to hear more on the game this year.
How reliable these leaks are, we don’t know, but it’s not against the realm of possibility.
25 February 2022 —
Ed Boon has just teased the next game from NetherRealm Studios and it looks like the studio is working on something big, with Boon claiming that he will “get in a lot of trouble” if he says too much. Intriguingly though, it does seem as though Boon might be hinting that the game won’t be Mortal Kombat 12 or Injustice 3. Follow the link to read more.
28 January 2022 —
A now-deleted tweet from NetherRealm senior production manager Jonathan Andersen showed his desk which contains artworks from Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Injustice 2, as well as his monitor which showed a file named MK12_Mast…
21 August 2021 —
Many suspected that Injustice 3 was in early development and primed for NetherRealm’s next release, but according to influential in-the-know journalist Jeff Grubb, that might not be the case (thanks VGC).
Speaking on a new Giant Bomb video, it’s implied that the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Warner Brothers Games has led to NetherRealm changing projects.
“It lines up with the reality and it lines up with what I’ve heard, where Mortal Kombat 12 would make the most sense because that’s a game they know will make money, it will sell well… Mortal Kombat 11 was great, it’s doing well, but if you come out with Mortal Kombat 12 it will also sell and do well,” Grubb said speaking on the Giant Bomb.
“At the same time, you don’t have to use any of these Batman or Superman characters that might be tied up in licensing if you try to get rid of NetherRealm or sell it to whoever.”
18 June 2020 —
NetherRealm Studio’s latest job ad states that the studio is seeking a Principal Software Engineer «to drive the next generation console graphics vision for the Mortal Kombat and Injustice franchises.»
Mortal Kombat 12 story
We’ll try to go more in-depth on the game’s full story in another page as it deserves more attention and analysis than a small paragraph. But it seems safe to assume that Mortal Kombat 12 will continue on from the end of the Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath DLC.
In this story expansion to Mortal Kombat 11, there are actually two endings, depending on if you choose to fight Kronika as Liu Kang or Shang Tsung.
If you choose Shang Tsung, you’ll get ‘the bad’ ending, but if you choose Liu Kang, you get the ‘good ending’ which is widely regarded to be canon. You can see this just below:
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In this ending we see Liu Kang, now ‘Lord Liu Kang, God of Thunder & Fire’ use the hourglass to create a new history before fading to black. We next see what many believe is the Wu Shi Academy, where Mortal Kombat characters like Kung Lao and Liu Kang were once trained to become Shaolin Monks.
He greets a youthful Kung Lao who Lord Liu Kang has chosen as his new champion. He next explains that they must begin his «training». When Kung Lao asks what he needs to be trained for, Liu Kang does not speak, offering only a smirk as we cut to the credits.
It would suggest that Mortal Kombat 12 is likely the start of a whole new era, potentially decades before most of the previous MK games so far.