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NetherRealm No Longer Working on Mortal Kombat

Ed Boon, who is the leader of the NetherRealm development studio, has announced that his team was no longer working on the Mortal Kombat franchise for the time being and was focusing on creating a new intellectual property.The veteran video game creator has not mentioned whether his company was still linked to the fi...

14 December 2011
14:01 GMT

Censorship Was Right for First Mortal Kombat, Not Needed Now

Ed Boon, the man who created the Mortal Kombat franchise and still works on its development, has said that when the first game in the fighting franchise was released on the SNES, it was right for the publisher to censor the game and take out all the blood. Ed Boon told Eurogamer that, “The controversy with t...

22 April 2011
15:31 GMT

Mortal Kombat Creator Explains Lack of Xbox 360 Exclusive Fighter

Mortal Kombat is now being released all over the world on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but only PS3 gamers are receiving a bonus fighter in the form of God of War's Kratos, so franchise co-creator Ed Boon has now explained the lack of a similar offer on the Xbox 360 console. The new Mortal Kombat game has ...

20 April 2011
17:21 GMT

Mortal Kombat Reboot Will Please Fans

The co-creator of popular fighting series Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon, has talked about the newest game in the franchise, titled simply Mortal Kombat, and how it will be pure "fan service," thanks to all the features that it will have. In case you haven't heard already, after the slightly disappointing Mortal Komb...

17 December 2010
14:21 GMT

Mortal Kombat Creator Explains Upcoming Reboot

One of the co-creators of the iconic Mortal Kombat fighting series, Ed Boon, recently talked about the upcoming reboot of the series, and how it takes all of the classic elements of the franchise and polishes them up for a whole new generation of gamers. After a few not so fortunate titles, including the Teen-rate...

7 December 2010
02:30 GMT

Mortal Kombat Will Be As Aggressive, More Accessible

Series creator Ed Boon has confirmed that Mortal Kombat 2011 will be shown at the upcoming Pax Prime conference and that the fighting game franchise will be reinvented in the new installment, allowing for fans to enjoy themselves while also attracting players who have so far found it too complicated.Mortal Kombat was...

1 September 2010
18:31 GMT

The Next Mortal Kombat Will Return to the Roots of the Series

In a recent interview, Ed Boon, the executive producer of the Mortal Kombat series, declared that the upcoming new installment will take the franchise back to its Mature-rated roots. The last title that was produced by his team was the Teen-rated Mortal Kombat versus DC Universe, quite big departure of from the estab...

5 August 2010
04:39 GMT

Mortal Kombat Creator Thinks Fighting Games Are Too Complex

Ed Boon, the co-creator of the Mortal Kombat series, has recently stated that the low sales of fighting games might be attributed to the hardcore reputation of the genre. He said that there just isn't a big audience for really complex fighting titles anymore and that developers who want to be successful must tak...

7 July 2010
14:21 GMT

Next Mortal Kombat Will Be Online Oriented

Warner Bros. seems to be serious about re-making the Mortal Kombat pretty much from the ground up. The previous Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe offered some nice visuals, interesting fighters and adrenaline-pumping moments, such as the first time when it allowed you to battle another character while falling to your dea...

11 August 2009
07:08 GMT

Quan Chi No Longer Coming to Mortal Kombat

Time has not been kind to the latest entry of the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise, which pitted the heroes and the villains of the universe to those coming from the DC comics universe.The game launched to high expectations, promising new types of combat and complex interactions between characters but did not ma...

9 July 2009
02:52 GMT

Movie Creator Sues Midway Over Sale

Lawrence Kasanoff, who is the owner of Threshold Entertainment, initiated a lawsuit against publisher Midway, which was gone through a bankruptcy process and is not set to be sold to Warner Bros. for the sum of 33 million dollars. Kasanoff is claiming that he is the one who built the Mortal Kombat brand to its curren...

29 June 2009
16:21 GMT

Next Mortal Kombat Will Be M Rated

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was a bold undertaking, marrying the unique fighting mechanics of the series with characters, like Superman and Batman, taken from the best selling comics put out by DC Comics. Still, the game, which arrived in the shadow of Street Fighter IV, could not sell enough to save Midway, the co...

24 June 2009
07:59 GMT

Is Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe the Next MK Game?

Generally, we don't pay too much attention to rumors that are solely based on images, since we all know how easy it is to create an image that looks authentic. But if we are to judge the whole situation keeping an eye on the noob.com website (the personal website of Mortal Kombat creator and team leader Ed Boon)...

18 April 2008
04:01 GMT

Ed Boon Talks More Next-Gen Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat series' creator, Ed Boon, has confirmed in a recent interview that their plans to make a real next-gen Mortal Kombat series of games are starting to become reality, reassuring that the next Mortal Kombat title is going to be different from top to bottom, featuring more characters than ever, and new...

4 October 2007
04:59 GMT

PS3 - Boon Says the Next Mortal Kombat Will Be Grittier, Dirtier

After seeing what Epic's Unreal Engine 3 can do, Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat series creator announced that MK8 will be using something similar and that the fighting game would see a significant change on all levels. Thus, speaking with CVG on the next MK game, Boon talked in detail about the changes occurring with t...

23 April 2007
04:07 GMT


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