{"id":50208,"date":"2026-11-09T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/mortal-kombat-co-creator-asks-fans-to-vote-on-the-next-entrys-name\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:34:49","slug":"mortal-kombat-co-creator-asks-fans-to-vote-on-the-next-entrys-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/mortal-kombat-co-creator-asks-fans-to-vote-on-the-next-entrys-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat Co-Creator Asks Fans to Vote on the Next Entry\u2019s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mortal-Kombat-1_003.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been more than a year since NetherRealm Studios announced that <em>Mortal Kombat 1<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/mortal-kombat-1-wont-receive-any-more-story-dlc-or-characters-netherrealm-focused-on-next-project\">wouldn\u2019t receive any more new content<\/a>. While it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/mortal-kombat-studio-is-definitely-pursuing-another-entry-in-the-franchise\">\u201cpursuing\u201d another entry<\/a> in its popular fighting game franchise, there\u2019s been total radio silence and no official announcements. So naturally, chief creative officer and co-creator Ed Boon took to Twitter to ask what the next game should be called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Mortal Kombat 2<\/em>\u201d was the favorite, beating out <em>Mortal Kombat 13<\/em> and <em>Mortal Kombat 12<\/em>. Which is interesting because the first would indicate a direct follow-up to <em>Mortal Kombat 1<\/em>. Given the timeline reset after the events of <em>Mortal Kombat 11<\/em>, that seems a given, but another reboot may be unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Or so you would think. Boon addressed such notions, stating, \u201cSome people are assuming the title with the most votes will determine where we take the story. That\u2019s not the case. We\u2019ve just had difficulty kounting lately\u2026<em>Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat X, Mortal Kombat 11, Mortal Kombat 1<\/em>.\u201d Is this another tease or simply misdirection?<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/mortal-kombat-co-creator-asks-fans-to-vote-on-the-next-entrys-name\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been more than a year since NetherRealm Studios announced that Mortal Kombat 1 wouldn\u2019t receive any more new content. While it\u2019s \u201cpursuing\u201d another entry in its popular fighting game franchise, there\u2019s been total radio silence and no official announcements. So naturally, chief creative officer and co-creator Ed Boon took to Twitter to ask what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,7008,5317,7009,5032,108,3814],"class_list":["post-50208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-mixtv","tag-mortal-kombat","tag-mortal-kombat-13","tag-mortal-kombat-2","tag-netherrealm-studios","tag-news","tag-wb-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}