Injustice 3 Rumored to Be Mortal Kombat Developer NetherRealm’s Next Fighting Game

It’s been astir 3 years since Mortal Kombat 1 came out, but developer NetherRealm has yet to denote its adjacent game. However, for immoderate clip present fans person speculated that Injustice 3 — the adjacent crippled successful its DC warring crippled franchise — is successful the works astatine NetherRealm, and caller reports person backed that up.

MP1st reported that Injustice 3 is successful progressive improvement astatine NetherRealm, having spotted an explicit notation of the crippled connected the resume of an undisclosed creator presently moving astatine Warner Bros. Games.

Evidence of the beingness of Injustice 3 shouldn’t travel arsenic overmuch of a surprise, fixed dependable actors for Injustice characters Superman and Aquaman person teased their engagement successful a sequel.

In September 2024, NetherRealm improvement main Ed Boon, who is presently connected the roadworthy promoting the imminent merchandise of Mortal Kombat 2 successful theaters, revealed that the workplace had decided its adjacent crippled backmost successful 2021. At the time, Boon said NetherRealm was “still afloat committed to supporting Mortal Kombat 1 for a agelong clip to come.” But conscionable 8 months later, Warner Bros. Games confirmed nary caller DLC characters oregon communicative chapters would beryllium released for the crippled — a determination that sparked important backlash wrong the community.

Since then, we’ve heard fundamentally thing from NetherRealm astir what’s next. You’d similar to deliberation an announcement of immoderate quality won’t beryllium excessively acold disconnected though, if the past is thing to spell by. The archetypal crippled successful the series, Injustice: Gods Among Us, launched successful 2013, with its sequel, Injustice 2, coming retired successful 2017. NetherRealm released Mortal Kombat 11 successful 2019 and for a clip it seemed similar the workplace would alternate betwixt Mortal Kombat and Injustice games, but it went connected to merchandise different Mortal Kombat, the brushed reboot that is Mortal Kombat 1, successful 2023 instead. We’re owed a caller Injustice, then, if not this year, past possibly adjacent year.

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