Rumors around a Mortal Kombat 12 are not new. Last August, we learned from Jeff Grubb, a journalist at VentureBeat, that the game was in development at NetherRealm studios. The latter explained that the developers had favored the easy card with a new episode of the saga to the detriment of an Injustice 3, more complicated to set up because of the image rights of each superhero. The Internet is now running at full speed around leaks and other rumours, so the developers have decided to play with these new communication codes. Jonathan Andersen, Senior Producer on the series, posted a photo on his Twitter account for long minutes before deleting it. In this snapshot recorded by Internet users, we can see several posters of different Mortal Kombat, placed on a desk near a computer monitor where we can see the code name “MK12_Mast” displayed. Next to it, we can see the end of an email where it is written that “our fans scour the internet with great fervor, looking for any clues. Be very vigilant with this content”.
Better, if we have fun analyzing the layout of the posters on the photo, we see that the artworks referring to Mortal Kombat 1 are placed next to those of Mortal Kombat 2, and as we know since the interventions of Jean-Claude Van Damme that 1+2 = 12, these could also be clues to put Internet users on this track. Still, this somewhat crude staging proves that NetherRealm Studio prefers to create this voluntary leak rather than being the victim of a leak that it would not have anticipated. Now let’s hope that this Mortal Kombat 12 brings real changes compared to the previous one which is still very fresh in our minds, knowing that the game’s follow-up lasted more than 2 years.
