The Mortal Kombat team might be making a Marvel fighting game

Chicago-based developer NetherRealm Studios is known primarily for Mortal Kombat, the legendary series that inspired its name. But in 2008 and more than intensely in 2013, the team likewise became known as a DC fighting game studio with Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and Injustice. And at present the studio's comic volume roots may be expanding as rumors swirl of an upcoming NetherRealm Marvel fighting game.

According to leaker Daniel Richtman via Stealth Optional, NetherRealm is developing the Curiosity-focused fighting game. There's goose egg well-nigh what storyline it would be influenced past or when information technology might come out. The simply detail in this rumor is that a NetherRealm-developed Marvel fighting game is in the works.

Subtle hints and a mysterious time to come

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However, there has been more tertiary information that points to this happening equally well as some evidence that possibly says the opposite. MinnMax'southward Ben Hanson recently posted a prune of a video interview he did with Ed Benefaction during a Game Informer cover story trip for Mortal Kombat 11 dorsum in 2019. In information technology, he asks Boon if Marvel has always approached him to practice a fighting game.

"Yes!" he said as his eyes widened. "Yes, I did, but I probably shouldn't talk about it."

When asked if he was excited about that idea, Boon followed up with, "Oh god, yes. Nosotros would honey to make like a Marvel fighting game or a Marvel vs. DC [fighting game]."

Boon is also a key player in the other factors that peradventure point to a NetherRealm fighting game. He said in an interview with Geoff Keighley (virtually 35 minutes in) effectually the Backwash expansion's May 2020 release that the team had "other stuff in the oven" in addition to Mortal Kombat and Injustice.

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And while it seems innocuous, Boon has been known to troll and requite away hints on Twitter, making his tweets subject to a careful inspection. Boon has been known to tweet virtually comics from both DC and Marvel, but players have noticed that he's been tweeting about Marvel quite frequently. This includes merely half dozen Marvel tweets in April 2021 lonely. He too changed his Twitter bio to say "We make games with Ninjas and SuperHeroes" in the latter half of 2018, something those same diehards also took note of as "SuperHeroes" isn't specific to DC.

Marvel has too been quick to license out its comic book heroes to unlike developers. Insomniac's two Spider-Human games accept been the biggest ones, only Crystal Dynamics' Avengers title and Camoflaj'southward Iron Man VR are also efforts from this initiative.

Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite had a rough go yet the series has shown that in that location is a thirst for a Marvel fighting game out there. Similar how Insomniac is known for its fluid action and how Crystal Dynamics is known for its third-person action games, NetherRealm has just done fighting games. This history makes the developer a worthy candidate to take up that project and it would further diversify Marvel'southward game portfolio, which seems to be of import, given how unique each of the three aforementioned games are.

This could besides explicate the mystery surrounding NetherRealm's adjacent projection likewise the studio'southward departure from its two-year cycle. Information technology has released a new game in the April or May of every odd-numbered year since 2011, bouncing back and forth between Mortal Kombat and Injustice. But it's been two years since Mortal Kombat 11 and NetherRealm's next game has not fifty-fifty been announced even so. It's not even clear if Mortal Kombat 11 will be getting more support or DLC either as the studio's silence about its future is all-encompassing.

Snapping abroad the rumors

Is NetherRealm making a Marvel fighting game?

All the same, in that location is i large aspect that makes this rumor seem more more dead than Tony Stark subsequently Avengers: Endgame. Warner Bros. owns both NetherRealm and DC Comics. Information technology's a little difficult to imagine the visitor that owns DC allowing one of its internal studios to brand a game for its biggest rival in the comics space, especially instead of Injustice 3. Only there are also now Sony-developed games on Xbox and PC and Microsoft-published games on the Switch so visitor rivalries in video games aren't what they once were.