NetherRealm Studios have shared their Banished trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 at this year’s EVO.
23.07.2023 - 01:43 / ign.com / Sam Raimi / Quan Chi / Will
After confirming earlier this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con that Invincible's Omni-Man would be headed to Mortal Kombat 1 alongside Homelander and Peacemaker, we've also just learned that J.K. Simmons will be voicing the role, having already popularized it in the Amazon Prime animated series.
This comes from an interview on the Comic-Con show floor during which Netherrealm's Ed Boon revealed that Simmons had been recording the voiceover for Omni-Man. "It's as authentic as it can be," Boon said.
Simmons has been beloved across film, TV, and even video games for some time. He's perhaps best known for playing J. Jonah Jameson across multiple Spider-Man instances including Sam Raimi's trilogy, Far From Home and No Way Home, Across the Spider-Verse, multiple animated shows, and the 2005 and 2007 Spider-Man video games, 2 and 3.
But recently, he's been voicing Omni-Man in Amazon Prime animated series Invincible, which just got a season 2 release date of November 3. We won't spoil the ending of season one, of course, but our review called it "the year's most surprising superhero series," and Omni-Man in particular has a pretty significant role to play in it as the protagonist's father.
As for his role in Mortal Kombat 1, we'll have to be a bit more patient. Omni-Man arrives as part of the game's first DLC Kombat Pack alongside Quan Chi, Takeda, Ermac, and Homelander. We spoke to Boon in-depth about all the news about Mortal Kombat 1 from the show including newly-announced character reveals and more.
You can catch up on all the other news coming out of Comic-Con in our roundup of everything announced.
NetherRealm Studios have shared their Banished trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 at this year’s EVO.
EVO 2023 has kicked off today and will continue throughout the weekend. This is the fighting game tournament if you’re unfamiliar with the event. Players gather to attempt to go through matches from a series of popular fighting games. Those games include everything from Guilty Gear Strive, Street Fighter 6, Tekken 7, Dragon Ball FighterZ, to Mortal Kombat 11. That’s just a brief look at some of the video games featured at the tournament. But between the fights, you might spot a reveal. It looks like Ed Boon has something planned for Mortal Kombat fans at this year’s event.
Ed Boon is seemingly teasing on Twitter (surprise surprise) that Reptile is going to be the next character announced for Mortal Kombat 1 during EVO.
The fighting game genre has many notable franchises. One of the earliest to earn iconic status is Mortal Kombat. It punched its way onto the arcade scene in 1992 and quickly found its way to the home console market, wowing players with at-the-time realistic visuals and controversial over–the–top gore. That controversial content ushered in the now-industry standard ratings system, but Mortal Kombat’s legacy has been defined by much more than that. For over 11 mainline installments, the series built gameplay innovations and an ever-growing roster atop its core 1-on-1 fighting system.
The promised beta test for MK1 preorders now has a set date.
Mortal Kombat fans are waiting on the next major installment to land in the marketplace later this year. However, we’re still in the dark if you’re itching to see the entire roster. But fortunately, NetherRealm Studios has been teasing fans with new character reveals over a series of teasers and trailers. Today, we’re finding out that the roster should contain a total of 24 fighters, according to a new report from Temple of Geek that surfaced online. This publication managed to speak with Dominic Cianciolo, the story director behind the upcoming game at SDCC.
Mortal Kombat 1, a new start for the long-running and ultra-violent fighting game franchise is set to release in only a few months’ time. Before players get a chance to experience the full game, there will be a beta that will be available for a select number of days with specific roster members to both test the online of the upcoming release and give audiences a chance to learn how to play certain characters. This beta won’t be open to everyone, however, so allow me to tell you how to be a part of the beta as well as the days that it will be available. This guide will tell players how to access the Mortal Kombat 1 beta, the days the beta is active, and the roster available in the beta.
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