Timeline nonsense is afoot once again.
About a week after the mysterious exploding grain of sand (opens in new tab) in a recent Mortal Kombat anniversary video, NetherRealm Studios has released a more concrete teaser. This new video (opens in new tab) shows a clock ticking down, past 9, 10, 11… and then skipping over 12 straight to 1.
The message seems pretty clear—following 2019’s Mortal Kombat 11, the new entry won’t be MK12, but rather some kind of reboot or reset. That also lines up a datamined leak (opens in new tab) that suggests the new game is called Mortal Kombat 1.
Of course, if you played Mortal Kombat 11’s story through to the end, a timeline reboot will make perfect sense to you. Spoilers: that game ended with all of history being erased back to its very beginnings, thanks to the efforts of time-manipulating villain Kronika, and ultimately a deified Liu Kang and a newly mortal Raiden set to work overseeing a new timeline.
