Many Mortal Kombat fans pinned their hopes on the Game Awards to finally reveal the twelfth installment. As is well known, nothing came of it. Now there are even more signs that a reveal of the latest installment in NetherRealm’s fighting game series could be imminent.
Hopes for the Game Awards 2022 were high, but as is well known, Mortal Kombat fans were once again disappointed. No Mortal Kombat 12 was shown. Developer NetherRealm is known to be working on the new part, but so far there has been no official reveal. Only recently did studio boss Ed Boon at least hope with a tweet
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The reason for the suspicions are findings by data miners and some players in the main menu of Mortal Kombat 11. Advertisements for DLCs have repeatedly appeared here in the past few days. This is exciting in that NetherRealm has more than made it clear that the last offshoot of 2019 will not receive any more expansions.
Some datamining happened and they’re gonna use this to advertise their next game 😉 https://t.co/h3SCnLySBI
— thethiny 🐰 (@thethiny) December 18, 2022
The developers used a similar tactic for the last reveal. Mortal Kombat X was then given a major update that didn’t change anything about the actual game. Only advertisements were brought into the game by the patch, which eventually made Mortal Kombat 11 official.
So we can be curious when NetherRealm will finally drop the bomb. Definitely a smart tactic not to use the Game Awards as a platform. Even if the number of viewers at the award ceremony exploded again, there is still a risk of being lost in the same way as the other world premieres.
Mortal Kombat is celebrating its 30th anniversary and there is also a trailer for it.
