This past week Mortal Kombat creative director Ed Boon has been teasing his fans.  This is nothing new to the trickster that has in the past gained a lot of hype for various downloadable chracters.  Boon’s first tweet:

 

Square root of 841.

— Ed Boon (@noobde) May 4, 2014

 

He then followed up the next day with another tweet:

 

Question: How many days in (non-leap-year) February?

— Ed Boon (@noobde) May 5, 2014

 

Both these tweets seem to imply something will be happening on June 2nd, leaving many fans to speculate a pre E3 announcement.  The Electronic Entertainment Expo will be June 10th-12th, so he could possibly be announcing the game a week before.  This week he shared yet another tweet than many fans are interpreting as a tease to the possible upcoming announcement.

 

Hmmm… I wonder what the X stands for ? pic.twitter.com/qDq5LvK4vs

— Ed Boon (@noobde) May 18, 2014

 

Many fans have speculated that the X stands for “versus” implying an Injustice vs. Mortal Kombat game along the lines of the popular 2008 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.  Other fan speculations have even ranged from a new live action movie to a Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter game, as Boon has expressed interest in creating such a title for a long time.  However the more logical conclusion is that Netherrealm is finally releasing a sequel to the 2011 reboot of Mortal Kombat.  This seems to coincide with leaked information that various stars have been doing voice recordings for a new Mortal Kombat game.  Also this could also coincide with a leaked release date of November 22nd from an Australian video games site (although they later retracted and denied ever posting such a date).

We have two more weeks to see what boon has in store for us, or if this is just another one of his misdirections.  Maybe if we’re lucky we’ll see a remake of Mortal Kombat Special Forces.

-F