Mortal Kombat 8

[New Era Outlaw]

Midway is due to announce some details on the next installment of the Mortal kombat series, come the 17th of April, 2008. In the meanwhile, keep an eye on this site:


http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/mortal-kombat-logo.jpg



http://www.noob.com

You'll notice that there is a small countdown timer there, as well as an ominous 'ANSWERS' message above it.
The timer is actually marking the time left before the Midway Gamer's Day event (held in Las Vegas, Nevada), where the public will finally get some answers about the newest Mortal Kombat game after almost two years of silence from the company.


The only things confirmed about the game so far is that many of the original characters will not return, the fighting engine will be completely reworked from the ground up, and the graphics will employ Epic Game's Unreal Engine 3 engine. A demo of the engine's capabilities can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0gNJfAkPSw


Here is what the engine is capable of when applied to the social networking game, Rhythm Star:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ED1ouzeNMM&feature=related



The game is being developed for the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3.


By the way, anybody want to bet that Scorpion would return in this game?

[New Era Outlaw]

More news on noob.com:


Ed Boon's website, noob.com, kontinues entertaining us with new clues about the upcoming new MK game while we wait for April 17th, Midway Gamer's day, in which MK8 will be unveiled.

Ed Boon now shows us a bunch of numbers which can be changed into letters if we take those numbers as the number of order of the letters in the alphabet. As a result, we have this crosswords (thanks to Mick-Lucifer posting it @ MK Online):


http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2130/crossnoobux6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Vertical: Tree, Finish, Evolve/Evolved, Klose, Sleep, Mode, Arcade, Turn, Rage, One, Victim, Bait, Deep, Dream, Around, Evict, Freeze, Help, Slim.

Horizontal: Story, Life, Free, And/DNA, Island/Land, Sweden/Eden, Online, Odd, Lied, Grow, See, Kombat, Rain, Spear, Crime, Perspective, Dark, Venom, Home, Bleed, Torn, Fool, Teleport/Port, Lets's age, Wii.

Diagonal: Dead, Sea, Peer, Tear, Cave.

Thanks again to Mick-Lucifer for his efforts.

[Rko]

Sigh!!! Another MK game....

[New Era Outlaw]

Just one day before Midway is due to release information about the newest Mortal Kombat game, a new rumour is sweeping across the entire MK community and, in a nutshell, turning it completely upside down.

I'll just quote the article from MK Secrets here:



Mortal Kombat VS. DC Universe
Posted On: Apr 15 2008, 12:02 AM

Do you still remember one of the very first rumors that hit the net. Exactly!!! It was that the next Mortal Kombat game (currently known as Mortal Kombat 8) is going to be a Versus title, combining both Mortal Kombat and DC characters. However time has passed and this rumor was forgotten. But today it was made clear that this rumor is true.



In preparation for Midway Gamer's Day, that is in just a few days, Midway has added the next Mortal Kombat game in the list of titles that are going to be released in the second half of the year. The game is listed as:

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6512/image01dr9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Mortal Kombat VS. DC Universe
NOTE: NOT an official image


This means that we are really going to get a "VS" Mortal Kombat game.

What effect is all this going to have on the Mortal Kombat community is to early to predict.

Keep an eye on Mortal Kombat Secrets. We will update with more information as soon as we find out more.

And remember you heard this news first here at Mortal Kombat Secrets - The most informative Mortal Kombat website on the net.

Source: http://mksecrets.net/indexeng.php


.....it's just a rumour, and personally, I'd like to believe that's all there is to it.
However, lest we forget, April Fool's Day has already come and gone and Mortal Kombat Secrets is usually a very reliable source of information.

All I can say is...we should wait and see what happens tomorrow or the day after. Then we'll know for sure whether or not Midway has officially lost their minds.


Of course....seeing Batman do a FATALITY might be cool.

[reaper2051]

if it was true why should it be DC? it should be Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter for those 2 (next to Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, Guilty Gear and Samurai Showdown) are the most successfull franchises in Fighting Game history.

[New Era Outlaw]

Well, the timer has finally run down to zero. Now, instead of the countdown timer, this is what you'll see if you visit noob.com:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/4734/rain02vs5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The hidden message reads "Embargo lifts tomorrow".