June 12, 2023
Whereas lots are excited for Mortal Kombat 1, the confusingly titled subsequent entry within the MK collection by NetherRealm Studios, which is releasing prior to we anticipated, we’re so used to builders saying video games a yr or so earlier than their launch, however that doesn’t imply they aren’t gonna present some like to their different combating recreation collection sooner or later.
Injustice 3 will seemingly nonetheless occur. Considerations have been raised when folks realized NetherRealm went with one other entry to Mortal Kombat after MK11. They’ve been in line with leaping between it and the Injustice collection.
Throughout an IGN interview, although, they popped the query of whether or not the franchise is over with, to which Ed Boon merely responded with a easy “in no way.” The 2 causes they stepped handed Injustice 3 was due to COVID causes in addition to upgrading the engine from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 4.
“We actually wished to watch out with COVID and all that stuff and all people staying protected. So there have been a bunch of variables concerned that ultimately we realised, ‘Okay, let’s do one other Mortal Kombat recreation and hopefully we’ll get again to the Injustice video games.’”
Mortal Kombat 1 is due out current-gen consoles on September 19.