If this leak is true, then one of those “other things in the oven” could be a NetherRealm Marvel fighting game, but we’ll have to wait and see what the official word is whenever Boon and the team decide it’s time to announce it. Of course, 2020 did give us the Aftermath expansion as well, but we currently don’t have any word about what NetherRealm might be working on next. Interactive Entertainment and DC comics is an action-packed, physics based.

We usually get a new NetherRealm game about every two years, and the last entry was Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019. DC Universe Online, a joint video game from Daybreak Game Company, Warner Bros. Notably the leak from Richtman does not mention any other properties, so if this is true, expect it to be a Marvel game solely, not a crossover with DC or Mortal Kombat. Some have pointed out that NetherRealm is owned by Warner Bros., who owns Marvel competitor DC, but crazier crossovers have happened. Marvel, meanwhile, is happy to hand its licenses out to assorted developers and publishers to get a broad variety of games and experiences using those heroes and stories. Whether or not that’s because he’s been hard at work on a Marvel game remains to be seen. He refers to the “blip” when Thanos snapped half the population away in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame as the “Marvel BLIP,” talks about a campaign to bring Tony Stark back, multiple tweets about The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and random speculation about “SnyderVerse rhyming with SpiderVerse.” Sure, these could all be (and most likely are) completely innocuous tweets that mean nothing at all, but it’s clear Boon’s a Marvel fan too, and he-much like the rest of the world-has Marvel on the brain. Hearing the news talk about us having “lost a year” and soon fully vaccinated people can travel overseas with life getting back to normal…įeels like we’re returning from the Marvel BLIP. And this month, Boon’s Twitter has been a trove of Marvel references. He might, if his Twitter account is anything to go off of, and historically, Boon’s Twitter has been a source of teases that play the long game subtle hints at what’s to come hidden right in plain sight. Curiously, Boon also preceded this quote (at about 35 minutes into the video) with comparing Mortal Kombat to the Marvel Universe. In 2013, NetherRealm Studios developed a full DC fighting game with Injustice: Gods Among Us, which was followed by Injustice 2 in 2017.īoon also previously confirmed in an interview with Geoff Keighley last year that the studio has “other stuff in the oven” besides Mortal Kombat and Injustice, which are so far the studio’s only two franchises. DC Universe (when the studio was Midway), which pitted characters from both franchises against one another. NetherRealm’s experience in comic book hero fighters began with 2008’s Mortal Kombat vs. “We would love to make like a Marvel fighting game, or Marvel vs. Hanson then asks Boon if he’s excited about that idea.

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