{"id":92744,"date":"2026-11-06T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T21:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92744"},"modified":"2026-11-06T19:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:40:59","slug":"ed-boon-wants-to-know-what-fans-want-the-next-mortal-kombat-game-to-be-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92744","title":{"rendered":"Ed Boon Wants to Know What Fans Want the Next Mortal Kombat Game to Be Called"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Ed Boon is stirring up excitement in the fighting game community after releasing a poll asking fans what they\u2019d like the next Mortal Kombat installment to be called.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a rough time for Mortal Kombat fans. The series\u2019 latest game, MK1, officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/confirmed-mortal-kombat-1-wont-get-any-more-dlc-characters-or-story-chapters-as-netherrealm-needs-to-shift-focus-to-the-next-project\">stopped receiving new content updates<\/a> in May 2025, and its presence at competitive tournaments has been lackluster, at best.<\/p>\n<p>Players are eager for more news on the next game in the franchise, which co-creator Ed Boon confirmed was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/ed-boon-confirms-another-mortal-kombat-game-and-more-are-in-the-works-amid-injustice-3-rumors\">officially in the works<\/a> in May 2026. It\u2019s been pretty quiet since then \u2014 but now, it appears that Boon is testing the waters to see what fans are expecting.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"mortal-kombat-flawless-victory-a-visual-history-of-the-iconic-series-excerpt\" data-value=\"mortal-kombat-flawless-victory-a-visual-history-of-the-iconic-series-excerpt\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>On November 6, 2026, Boon published two polls on X\/Twitter. The first asked, \u201cWhat would you want the next Mortal Kombat to be called?\u201d giving options for Mortal Kombat 13, Mortal Kombat 12, and Mortal Kombat 2. (Thus far, 43% of participants have voted for Mortal Kombat 2, with 33% choosing 13 and 23% choosing 12.)<\/p>\n<p>His second poll is far more intriguing, asking: \u201cWith two great Marvel fighting games being made by different teams, which would you like to see come out next? Marvel Tokon 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Boon is stirring up excitement in the fighting game community after releasing a poll asking fans what they\u2019d like the next Mortal Kombat installment to be called. It\u2019s been a rough time for Mortal Kombat fans. The series\u2019 latest game, MK1, officially stopped receiving new content updates in May 2025, and its presence at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":92746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92748,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92744\/revisions\/92748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}