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NetherRealm Studios ’ Creative Director Ed Boon late share that the studio has other game in the works besides theirMortal KombatandInjusticefranchises . NetherRealm Studios has been in use since their start in 2010 , rising out of the failure of Midway Games and their subsequent acquisition by Warner Bros. just a year prior , and it looks like that will not be alter anytime presently according to Boon .
Boone has been working onMortal Kombatsince the very origin , being one of the biz ’s cobalt - creators while at Midway . Since the passing of the firstMortal Kombatin 1992 , Boon has been behind the development of not just the serial , but also fighting game as a whole . With Midway ’s closing and Boone now working under Warner Bros. , the quality of his projects have remain to rise . Injustice 2 released in 2017and was followed byMortal Kombat 11 in 2019 . Both titles received high praise from both critics and sports fan following their releases , and both also brought in high sales numbers game to go with it . With two whole spill back - to - back , the industriousness has been keep a close eye onwhat the studio does next .
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However , accord to Boon himself , whatever NetherRealm ’s next release is , it is not going to be another entranceway in their current franchise . late , he fall in a Summer Game Fest Q&APeriscopestream with host Geoff Keighley , during which they talk aboutMortal Kombat 11,the upcomingAftermathDLC , the next generation of console , and even a new title . Prompted by Keighley ’s wonder for his storied calling , Boon remarked ,
“ Mortal Kombat has become like a staple matter , almost Marvel - same . You do n’t await the last Marvel movie to ever come out , they ’re just gon na keep coming . Even though we ’ve been able to scratch other itch , you know doing Injustice game and hooey , and we have other clobber in the oven , but it ’s always nice to do the Mortal Kombat game . ”
Boon did not comment further on what the , “ other stuff in the oven , ” was , but he did go on to share his excitement at the potential that the next generation of consoles possesses . In the stream , Boon also noted that " this new manner of handle retentivity and load and clobber like that is gon na be huge . " Considering the next console propagation is virtually decently around the corner at this point , it ’s not too hard to put on that NetherRealm ’s nameless project is also benefit the late spring in hardware .
One of the praise bothInjustice 2andMortal Kombat 11received was for howwell - spin their storieswere , but almost every game NetherRealm has made since their founding have been fight game . The only exclusion was 2011’sBatman : Arkham City Lockdownmobile game , so perhaps this ignoble project could be something more grand or even more narrative driven . It is nameless what exactly those " other itches , " were , so at the moment it is hard to say what exactly NetherRealm have their sights place on . But given the experience at the studio and their data track record book , they should be given the benefit of the incertitude as the TV game industry prepares to enter a world of new engineering .
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