Latest Mortal Kombat teaser drops heavy hints next series entry is a reboot

NetherRealm Studios has released yet another video teasing the next entry in its long-running Mortal Kombat series – and there’s mounting speculation it could be hinting at a reboot.

NetherRealm shared a first teaser at the start of this month, appended to a video celebrating Mortal Kombat’s 30th anniversary. It showed sands steadily trickling through an hourglass before a sudden camera zoom focused in on the very last grain, which then exploded.

It’s now been four years since the launch of Mortal Kombat 11, and news-starved fans immediately began speculating NetherRealm’s mysterious video was in some way teasing an imminent reveal for Mortal Kombat 12 – with one theory suggesting Kronika’s time-and-space-altering hourglass, which featured prominently in the previous game, may have gone awry, somehow resetting the universe.