{"id":67375,"date":"2018-12-07T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/get_over_here_it_looks_like_mortal_kombat_11_is_switch_bound"},"modified":"2018-12-07T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:22:00","slug":"get-over-here-it-looks-like-mortal-kombat-11-is-switch-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/get-over-here-it-looks-like-mortal-kombat-11-is-switch-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Over Here! It Looks Like Mortal Kombat 11 Is Switch Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/72ee0ec00328b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/72ee0ec00328b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside \/>\n<p class=\"description\">Bring it<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\" \/><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><span class=\"icon icon-time\" \/> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2018-12-07T04:22:00+00:00\"><span>9 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UoTams2yc0s?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon walked out on stage at this year&#8217;s Game Awards to announce a winner of a select category and instead presented us with the surprise reveal of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mortal_kombat_11\">Mortal Kombat 11<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; the next entry in the long-running bloody and brutal fighting series by NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. The game is arriving worldwide on 23rd April.<\/p>\n<p>While no platforms were specifically mentioned by Boon, at the end of the announcement trailer the Switch logo was present (we&#8217;ve grabbed a screenshot for you below). The game&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MortalKombat\">official Twitter account<\/a> makes mention of the Nintendo Switch release as well. This is a rather big surprise considering a Mortal Kombat game hasn&#8217;t appeared on a Nintendo platform since the 2007 DS release.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Mk11\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2aa19c93ffad0\/mk11.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2aa19c93ffad0\/mk11.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mk11\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As you can see above, if you <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/m.gamestop.com\/product\/nintendo-switch\/games\/mortal-kombat-11\/171154\">pre-order the game<\/a> you&#8217;ll get the character Shao Kahn. Below are some official screenshots:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Si1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79a2ce9341fc1\/si1.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79a2ce9341fc1\/si1.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Si1\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Mortal Kombat 11 IMG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/59b5c26726e7a\/mortal-kombat-11-img.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/59b5c26726e7a\/mortal-kombat-11-img.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Mortal Kombat 11 IMG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Si3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b98e067271ce8\/si3.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b98e067271ce8\/si3.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Si3\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Si4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a21865102304a\/si4.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a21865102304a\/si4.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Si4\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Did you expect Mortal Kombat to be released on Switch? Are you excited for the 11th entry? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/youtu.be\/UoTams2yc0s\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UoTams2yc0s\">youtu.be<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/MortalKombat\/status\/1070890396044034050\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MortalKombat\/status\/1070890396044034050\">twitter.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/3a90d8c7302bf981477139b48655d274 @ 2018-12-07T12:54:27+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\" \/>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring it by Liam Doolan 9 hours ago [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UoTams2yc0s?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon walked out on stage at this year&#8217;s Game Awards to announce a winner of a select category and instead presented us with the surprise reveal of Mortal Kombat 11 &#8211; the next entry in the long-running bloody and brutal fighting [&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-67375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67375","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=67375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}