Speaking with Game Informer, Ed Boon described an opportunity to start anew with the next version of Mortal Kombat, the eighth in the series. Boon revealed that MK8 will be built using Unreal Engine 3, inspired by Epic's recent engine showcase Gears of War. "To me, when I saw Gears of War, I was like, 'Holy shit! That's the look that we've been talking about.' Visually, that's what we want to do," explained Boon. Visually.
MK8 is still a fighter at heart, and Boon and the team hope that by starting from scratch, Mortal Kombat can inspire the genre as it did more than a decade ago. "We're not going to have three fighting styles, we're not going to have the same punches and kicks and the same kind of control scheme. Everything is getting trashed. We're reinventing everything from the ground up," promised Boon. Don't expect any solid details for some time; Boon admitted that MK8 is currently not in a playable state, supposing that its release won't come until the end of 2008.
While Boon hinted at the possibility of MK8 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii, it should be noted that Epic's Mark Rein recently told Wired that "it's not in [Epic's] plans to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the Wii. It's really designed for next-gen, high-definition." Oh snap!
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Epic does the graphics and not Midway. It seems that Epic gets the best out of the Unreal engine.
I hope they fix the blood in Mortal Kombat 8.
The blood in well every mortal combat looked like worms.
And the last one was too mutch blood in it.
Peace Out!
the last mortal kombat games did have alot of blood looked like swimming pool blood this new mortal kombat 8 is gonna be a whole lot of difference there gonna start from scratch everything is gonna be changed. Best regards Commander Shepard =]
Great blog post :)
I actually kinda liked blood effects in MK: Deadly Alliance back in 2002-3 but I do confess that they feel odd and unsuitable now.
Hopefully they use the great gore effects of BioShock along with Killzone 2's blood system and of course, blood on camera effects like Gears.
With MK's classic archrival SF returning in form of SFIV, it's gonna be one hell of good time for fans of arcade fighters era. MK2 vs SF2 WAS the fanboy battlefield back then. I honestly hope MK8 vs SF4 becomes the battle of our age and casts a shadow over PS3 vs 360, Blu vs HD and such things...
MK FTW! Can't wait to see MK8's stuff. Hope they stay true to their promise and show it in early 2008.
thanxs mk this is a great post ay eheheheh :D