Get Over Here! Mortal Kombat X Coming to Mobile

This April, a rank whiff of death will mix with the scent of new life bursting from the ground. Mortal Kombat X is coming to consoles and PC – and now we have confirmation a version is bound for mobile platforms as well. Mor-tal Kom-baaaaat!

According to a press release distributed by NetherRealm Studios earlier today, the free-to-play mobile version of Mortal Kombat X combines card battling and fighting, probably not unlike NetherRealm’s recent WWE Immortals, or their mobile version of Injustice: Gods Among Us.

And since Mortal Kombat wouldn’t be Mortal Kombat without the blood and over-the-top violence (It’s a scientifically-proven fact; when Nintendo tried to sanitize the SNES port of the first Mortal Kombat game in 1992, it left a real ache in the company’s pocket book), we can expect plenty of brutality in Mortal Kombat X mobile. Shredding chains, spattering blood, bone-shattering punches detailed lovingly with the aid of slow-motion X-rays – it’s all here, if the trailer is any indication.

There’s no set release date for Mortal Kombat X on mobile. The console and PC versions drop on April 14, so we can probably expect to see the mobile version around the same time. According to NetherRealm, playing the console / PC version of Mortal Kombat X allows you to unlock content in the mobile game, and vice-versa.

See you on the battlefield. Mind the splintered bones.

Nadia Oxford

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In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.