{"id":134950,"date":"2023-09-26T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-155958"},"modified":"2023-09-26T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:30:00","slug":"ed-boon-excited-to-share-whats-next-for-mortal-kombat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/ed-boon-excited-to-share-whats-next-for-mortal-kombat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Boon Excited To Share What&#8217;s Next For Mortal Kombat 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee6df37f0619c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee6df37f0619c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mortal Kombat 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee6df37f0619c\/mortal-kombat-1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNDk2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"496\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee6df37f0619c\/mortal-kombat-1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mortal Kombat 1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mortal_kombat_1\">Mortal Kombat 1<\/a> might not have had the best launch on Switch, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped NetherRealm Studios from hyping up what&#8217;s next for the latest entry in the long-running fighting game series.<\/p>\n<p>Director and series co-creator Ed Boon <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noobde\/status\/1706394811400327652\">recently mentioned on social media<\/a> how this is just the beginning and there&#8217;s a lot more to come &#8211; from a long list of fighters to game features. Here&#8217;s exactly what he had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Ed Boon:<\/strong> &#8220;We are only at the beginning of the ride with #MortalKonbat1. We look forward to sharing what\u2019s koming next with a loong list of Fighters, Kameos and game features to kome!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s already been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/07\/mortal-kombat-1-reveals-six-fighters-in-official-kombat-pack-dlc\">DLC Kombat Pack announced<\/a> for Mortal Kombat 1. It arrives in Spring 2024 and includes Peacemaker, Omni-Man, Homelander, Quan Chi, Ermac and Takashi Takeda. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/09\/mortal-kombat-1-datamine-ignites-new-dlc-character-rumours\">other DLC fighter rumours also popped up<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Switch release, Boon mentioned around the time of Mortal Kombat 1&#8217;s launch how this version would &#8220;absolutely be getting an update&#8221; to address a &#8220;number of the concerns and issues&#8221;. You can learn more in our previous coverage:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:155723,155559 @ 2023-09-26T07:50:02+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Have you been playing Mortal Kombat 1 since it launched? How are you finding it so far? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortal Kombat 1 might not have had the best launch on Switch, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped NetherRealm Studios from hyping up what&#8217;s next for the latest entry in the long-running fighting game series. Director and series co-creator Ed Boon recently mentioned on social media how this is just the beginning and there&#8217;s a lot more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}