Today's News:
* Longtime music composer Ryo Nagamatsu announced that he recently left Nintendo with the official reason due to him wanting to go in a new direction for his career. Prior to his departure, Nagamatsu had spent the past 17 years working at Nintendo.
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https://twitter.com/NagamatsuRyo/sta...91363515047936 ,
https://www.destructoid.com/nintendo...platoon-mario/
* Netherealm Studios recently released a video celebrating the 30th anniversary of their Mortal Kombat series. This video also contained a cryptic message at the end teasing the upcoming reveal of the next game in the MK series, Mortal Kombat 12, and a potential story teaser for it. This game was later confirmed to be currently in development from an investor's meeting held earlier today by Warner Bros Discovery.
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The video then ends with a cryptic clip, featuring a torrent of sand trickling from the hourglass of the time-twisting boss of Mortal Kombat 11, Kronika. After the final grain leaves the hourglass, its shatters into endless grains, which would perhaps suggest a full restart of the timeline, or even a shakeup into multiple timelines. While Mortal Kombat‘s reboot, which began in 2011, definitely redefined storytelling in the fighting game genre, there’s no denying that the timeline very quickly painted itself into a corner, struggling through the events of MKX and really hitting the wall in MK11.
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Speaking on an earnings call today, Warner Bros. head David Zaslav confirms that Mortal Kombat 12 is in the works. The comment arrived during a section where Zaslav was discussing the success of gaming efforts under WB:
“[…] And there’s lots more to come, including the highly anticipated Mortal Kombat 12 and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, games also set for release this year with ambitious launch projections.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsX8jGhBHgo ,
https://www.destructoid.com/mortal-k...er-bros-games/
* Add Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to the list of government agencies that have recently approved Microsoft's attempt to purchase Activision Blizzard. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the main reason for the AMCU's approval was due to them not holding a similar level of concern like the FTC and UK's CMA over potential monopolistic fears of MS owning AB, especially in regards to the cloud gaming market for the Ukrainian market.
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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ukrain...ision-blizzard
* Variety reported that the Super Mario Bros Movie recently surpassed $1 billion on global box office revenues. It also became the first film this year to surpass the $1 billion mark and one of only a few films to have done it so far since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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https://variety.com/2023/film/news/s...ne-1235598832/