...YES, MORE MUGEN CHARACTERS. (potentially)

Please, let it be 2D. And not ugly as all hell like SF4.

And. Aquaman vs. Johnny Cage? Fuck yes. It'd be a battle to see who could completely fail the fastest xD

man_in_gauze

Deadly alliance, deception and Armageddon were pretty good in my opinion

reptile168

@blurayforever143:
Yeah, Batman pretty much counts on that too. Actually, he seems to make it a point to learn _every_ superhero's secret identity and vulnerabilities, just in case. There's a spectacular line in Justice League: The New Frontier where he tells Martian Manhunter that he has a $70,000 radioactive sliver of meteorite to stop "the one from Metropolis", but all he'd need for J'onn is a penny to buy a book of matches.

@mcderek3000:
DC and Marvel did it in comic-book format once (minus Capcom, of course), and not surprisingly, Batman won. Well, Captain America _conceded_ to him, on the basis that even though he'd be able to win the fight, he'd never be able to defeat Batman. The man just has 0% Give-Up in his blood.

Purple Dave

God.....damn it.

Mortal Kombat has always been a crappy fighting franchise, and DC has a long history of crappy sub par video games.

So its perfect that DC lend its iconic and awesome characters to Midway's undying series of mediocrity.

Lackshmana

This is so funny. Kinda like when capcom took awesome marvel heros and put them in the same game as awesome capcom fighters. Except now it's crappy DC "heros" and even crappier MK "fighters"!(if you're nice enough to call them that)

gophzero

I. I.. Don't know what to say! I'm excited this could be Revolutionary. the only thing I'm nervous about is DC doesn't have A listers like marvel does. Don't get me wrong Batman and Superman could hang but what about aquaman? I don't think it works! We'll see.

symbspider33

To throw around some comic geekinees around Superman is weak against magic abililties... Shang Tsung anyone?

mangomonkeyboy

[www.gamespot.com]

Scubanick86

@Luke Plunkett: Because everybody will have Kryptonite laced weapons and fists...maybe...

Eschguy

It seems too far from April Fools day for this to be a prank, although this could be some sort of pre 4/20 pot addled prank that Midway thought would be funny. This is a pretty big reach. Marvel vs Capcom = Awesome.... MK has been pretty stale on its own and I agree with many other posters that have said that throwing in the Dark Knight isn't going to make MK any better. For cryin out loud they made Liu Kang a zombie in the last one.. wtf?!?!? I still will not believe this till I see some sort of official screens or footage

Ethereal006

WHAT

SwimOdin

No fatalities? What the hell did they do, pop a pussy pill?

tshack

@Luke Plunkett: How could Ryu fight Juggernaut or anyone get with Thanos for that matter in Marvel vs Capcom 2?

maniacmayhem

MK Vs. DC. Really? That truly is out of nowhere. I could have ever imagined they go together. I don't care if this is just guest characters, but I just hope it's a good game.

YotaruVegeta

Either midway is trying to get on the 2d cross-over bandwagon or someone @ midway needs to stop playing MUGEN for game ideas.

MURDERFACE

@NitrousO: Just a guess, but Superman is vulnerable to magic as well. Maybe something to do with that?

benderbendingrodriguez

@Luke Plunkett:
Rayden could.

Karoshi

Luke, did you even play Mortal Kombat: Deception? That is a "REALLY good", not "decent" MK game. Granted it's not as awesome as my all-time favorite MK game, MK2, BUT it will do. Sure, the campaign didn't win any awards, but the online portion was freakin' awesome and get this... "lag free" for the most part.

So when you say "there hasn't been a decent Mortal Kombat game in over ten years", I think that is just kidding yourself.

Anyways, my rant for the day.

Oh yeah, about this new (if it's true) MK game.. well, MK vs DC... hmm... that could be quite interesting if they did it right. Maybe.

Myst3r1o

@Luke Plunkett: easy, you dont. ;D

now while the crossover thing is cool, i know DC will rock, im just over MK characters. can they pull this off? i dunno, color me skeptical. what would easily print money would be a Marvel vs. DC game. if that comes, sign me up!

zanzibarlegend

If this was Marvel vs DC vs Capcom in 2D I'd be creaming my pants. vs MK in 3D? Not so much.

solidunit

in response to the superman being LOLWTFINVINCIBLE, I'm not sifting through 155 posts, but I'll just assume outworld has a red sun. Ya know, a red sun where superman is just average-joe colour swap ninja fodder.

Tizlor

I want to be excited about this, but I just know they are going to make Superman a big pu**y like they always do so they can balance the stupid game.

fdisk

@Luke Plunkett: Same way you fight Hulk I guess?

wallapuctus

Did you guys check out the crossword that was on www.noob.com

Wii was a word in it, I doubt this will be the SAME MK game they have been going out about since last year - which is more brutal and relasstic and uses the Unreal engine.

They said the new game would be gritty and dark (like the DC world is) but also inspired Gears of War - which DID feature blood and lots of death...

Damn, i'm a huge MK fan and hope this DC crossover isn't the ONLY new MK game out this year! :o(

shiftyraccoon

My money's on hoax.
A whois on worldscollide.com also shows the domain was created in 2002.

RurouniQ

@GhostWhoWalks:
"Marvel + Capcom = Awesomeness!
MK + DC = Hard to say, but don't get your hopes up, people..."

If 2 + 1 can = 4, why can't 0 + 0 = 4?

I'm not looking forward to this rumored game, but I'm just sayin....

CheckersMcGavern

I know video game combat mashups and you sir (MK versus DC) are no video game mashup.

But then again, i guess this fits with the new darker world of the DC universe

meltyman

This is what Ed Boon has been hiding from us?

r3m1x

No, noooooooooooooo.... this is ridiculous :(

lucasreis

here hasn't been a decent Mortal Kombat game in over ten years

Bullshit. MK Deception was great, and MK Shaolin Monks was a fantastic spin-off game.

KaneRobot

Nooooo! Why can't there be a GOOD DC game?! Ugh, of all the fighting game universes to cross over with they have to pick the second worst!!

fearing

I would buy it. But I as well as everyone else wants FREAKIN MARVEL VS CAPCOM3 & POWER STONE3....For bleep sake

TheTime

I'd laugh if I weren't already choking on my own bile.

ridleysaria

LAME!!!!!!!! Cool Pictures Though!! The concept was so cool too, I wouldve loved to decapitate someone with a Batarang. Ahahahahaha

kingme

whatever. at first glance, i thought the guy on the right was space ghost and got way too excited.....

jfx316

Maybe the DC comics might get a decent fighter......OK, probably not.

KM91

MK Deception and Shaolin Monks are not just two of the better Mortal Kombat games in the series, they're some of the best fighting games in the last couple of years. There, took the bait.

Ninjakoala

I will buy this. I will play this. Why? Because I don't care how powerful someone in the MK universe is. Superman, Flash, and Batman will tear them all apart.

PapaBear434

Oh god lord no!

burningranger01

Why Mortal Kombat? DC should have tapped Capcom to develop something like DC vs Capcom. Sounds like a mediocre fighter coming up.

Snappywave

One day, there will be a Marvel vc Capcom vs DC game. Someone will just have to sort out the inevitable legal wrangles.

mcderek3000

@nih: wanker

Rockwallaby

Watching a DC character have a fatality pulled on them would make me feel sick.

Shaverdian

A law firm registered the worldscollide.com URL, not Midway, so who knows

Ecks

ahahahahhaa.
people get paid to come up with this bollocks? geez.

xbulletholes

@NPlace: I really enjoyed Armageddon. All the fighters and a fun create-a-fighter made it worth it to me.

Ra on the A-Team

NO! No, Mr. Plunkett, I will not stand for this. The 3D Mortal Kombats were awesome. Yeah, I said it. Deadly Alliance? SWEET. Deception? Not quite as good, the Konquest mode sucked, but it had Noob-Smoke and Baraka, so SWEET. Armageddon? EVERY fighter in an MK EVAR, a character creator? TOTALLY SWEET. I'm sorry, but the PS2-era MKs were the bees' knees. The crystal ballsacks, if you will. The tits. The cash-money. The shizniz. The rockafella' rock-nozzle. They were awesome.

NPlace

I think I'm gonna make a fighting game. I'll call it "Shitty Heroes Versus Other Shitty Heroes And Also Batman". It'll have horrible mechanics, but! It'll have a lot of blood to cover that up. And there'll be this button you can press to trip the other guy. And then... and then when the guy gets up, you can press the trip button again, and he'll FALL BACK DOWN! It will be the best selling game ever.

(I... look, I've lost at Mortal Kombat a lot, OK?)

rannic

When I first saw this image I thought it was just fanfic. I mean, it looks horrible and such. But now it's being blogged about? Okay...I hope this is not true. No blood? Gimme a break.

Amun-Ra

did a quick dns lookup on the website and it comes back with 208.58.149.2 i then googled it (try it yourself) or visit [whois.domaintools.com]

they have a record of the owner which is midway.

suicidalme

I kind of put this rumor in the same camp with the ZootFly Ghostbusters game. Spread word early to get a buzz, even though it might not workout in the end.

As much as I'd like to see DC character fatalities (the Joker's alone would be AWESOME), I'm sure DC wouldn't want to have images of their characters getting torn to shreds make it on the internets. You know, kind of like how cars in Gran Turismo don't get damaged.

boopadoo

@jackal888: I can't agree with ya' on MvC, but.. wow, another person who has played SNK vs Capcom: MOTM. That game friggin' rocks. So does Cardfighters Clash :D

cornunderscore2x

How does one fight batman? He will never lose. He has the super power "Preptime".

ManjiKengo

Well,this is different. Part of me hopes this is fake. I love mk and some of DC, but I can't see them together. The franchise of MK is built around killing right? So certain characters would be in an odd position. I mean seriously, when Wonder Woman killed a guy years back the whole JLA were upset about it for a long time. So how'd that work in game? Complete removal of fatalities is not an option, people for instance got upset about the lack of Fatalities in DA. Plus, someone brought up the point of Batman's no killing rule.

If if was DC vs SNK or SF or even Tekken, that wouldn't be so weird to me. For me it's not the worlds of the characters colliding; comics always have alternate reality scenarios so they could write a plausible situation. The issue for me is the whole Fatality aspect and how it'd make for a weird outcome. I'm babbling but I just think it will come off strange.

Shockdingo

I must be the only person who did not like Marvel vs Capcom. I did like SNK vs Capcom: Match of the Millenium on my Neo-Geo Pocket Color. I still play that. I love the stick on the NGPC. I hope Sony apes it in the next PSP.

jackal888

@stranger:
I wasnt casting a vote on the "the game is going to be the best ever", i wasnt casting vote on the "the game is gonna be the shyttiest ever" either. i was just simply stating that developers know they have to be smart and realize why there games have been unsuccessful or successful and key on that and maybe its time for a turn around. thats all.

Ignorance's Enemy

@Ignorance's Enemy:

I'm glad a picture on the internet that infers something that is still just a rumor gives you absolute faith that Midway (of all developers) is going to deliver a non-crap game based on two franchise IP's that haven't been put to a good game in years.

The rest of us will wait for some actual gameplay impressions (or at least official confirmation of this game's existence) before casting a vote either way...

stranger

@Ignorance's Enemy: Bah, stupid kotaku commenting system!!

Ignorance's Enemy

Which version of Batman will feature? Because if it's the Adam West one, the MKers wouldn't have a chance in hell.

Goro would be, like "Rarrrg,!" and Batman would make with the Bat-anti-multi-arm-monstrosity aerosol spray, causing Goro to die. Then Batman would do the Batusi at him.

Fishballs

@ArmyofJuan:
We are gonna find out before comic con. Midways press release event thingy is tomorrow and they are gonna announce officially what they are doing. Plus we are going to get a video from gamesradar tomorrow:[www.gamesradar.com]
So its going to running amuk before comic con

Ignorance's Enemy

@ArmyofJuan:
You will find out before comic con. Midways lil event thing is tomorrow. GamesRadar is posting some type of a video: [www.gamesradar.com]
And many credible sources have already claimed this to be true.

Ignorance's Enemy

@JerrD74: hates the media: Hahaha, ya they def. made it to mindfkk ya a lil bit haha.
@KingKevin:
Did you read what i posted a lil earlier? about the fact that this one would be for the lil kiddies and that MK8 is an entirely different project for the normal M.K audience. I dont think you did.

Ignorance's Enemy

I'm calling it early. The team of Superman/Flash/Wonder Woman will be top tier rivaling that of Magneto/Storm/Sentinel.

UmeShoryu

@JerrD74: hates the media: ...and lord knows if I didn't put the others in there, some assclown would have jumped in with 'well maybe it's so-and-so'

(crazy kotaku posting things before i'm done writing)

JerrD74: hates the media

Mister Mxyzptlk vs. Sheeva.
READY... FIGHT!

marmidukestank

Im sure we'll find out for sure this weekend at the NYC ComicCon.

But i sure would be a happy camper if i got to play as batman, green lantern, the flash or aquaman.

im just not sure if i would like a fighting game with mks fighting mechanics with dc characters. i dont think super heroes work well in a fighting game unless it's like MvsC

ArmyofJuan

@stranger: @Dmartin001:

We are talking next-gen here. Game Developers know they need to step their shyt up or they are going to get left behind, so a whole new mechanic and feel to M.K wouldn't be out of the question. I do agree that at first thought, it's overwhelming and your brain starts racing as to how this thing is going to bomb in every way. But, i say they are gonna switch the style up and deliver something(s) great that will overcast its past failures.

Ignorance's Enemy

@Ignorance's Enemy: Well that's what I was gonna go with, but then the stupid artist part of my brain was all 'well maybe that's just color from bounced light from the strange colored sky?'

Stupid brain..been playing in 3D too long tonight..

JerrD74: hates the media

this is AWFUL!!!
DC is SO boring, and MK is so cheesy and gory. And what, no fatalities?? This is awful. As a MK fan myself, I was hoping they would go back to the roots, and do something more fast paced, focusing on characters and stuff, not 50 random fighters adn random finishing moves!!

I SOOOOOOO hope they change this, or something.

KingKevin

@KidU: yeah, it looks pretty solid. 208.58.149.2 is the address for the sites for both shaolin monks and armageddon, as well.

wild homes

As far as the possibility of a MK and DC crossover game... you can't expect to mix toxic waste and raw sewage come up with bottled water.

Both franchises haven't spawned a worthwhile game in the longest time, I don't think anything good would come of it if it were to happen.

\ yeah, I like to watch Bill Engvall

Dmartin001

Will this be the game that finally puts MK to bed forever?

Let's friggin' hope so. Franchise crossovers are a desperate bid to keep a stale formula fresh, and waning IP from passing into nostalgia and obscurity. Unless Mortal Kombat is going to completely reinvent itself as a legit fighter, or at least as a fresh one, all I can say is: "Yawn."

stranger

@NitrousO: Superman will just be a reskinned Goro. In typical MK fare, he'll be one of the game's bosses, and he'll kill you by breathing.

kubevubin

Well, for all those wondering how Batman ever fights Superman, look it up, it's happened more than once and for the most part, Superman pretty much counts that if he ever goes bad or does something wrong, it's Batman who will bring him down

blurayforever143

@JerrD74: hates the media:
Its Scorpion. You can clearly tell from the color distinction that its the same color as his suit and then you gotta use them nice peripherals to make out his mask

Ignorance's Enemy

A Mortal Kombat without gore or fatalities will just bring further attention to the fact that their game mechanics have never been all that great.

darthmole12

@sadisticfreak432:
That whole thing translates into:
Emabargo Lifs Tomorrow

@KidU:
Haha yaa, I was really hoping to kill off the annoying and overrated DC Guys but oh well.

Ignorance's Enemy

@sadisticfreak432: that image is def of Scorpion or Sub-Zero or one of the dozen other ninja-clad fighters blocking a punch from somebody...

man..my eyes hurt

JerrD74: hates the media

Well... we have Star Wars in Soul Calibur...
Wait for it, SF4 isn't released yet, ready for the crossover with The Lord of The Ring ?
I'm telling you, Gandalf would definitely rock Ryu.

Ycare

@Thorax:
You're just jumping to the conclusion that they're taking out the violence. We don't know that yet.

mrplow8

Well find out tomorrow.

www.noob.com is revealing its information TOMORROW.

sadisticfreak432

What's with the non stop "I can't believe...." chorus.

We can believe that aliens invaded in 1942, or that there's some great underwater city populated by little girls, but we can't believe Mortal Kombat and DC Comics characters would appear together in a .... wait for it .... fictitious video game?

MykalBloom

@MarshmallowMark:
Let Batman _be_ decapitated? A better question would have been how Batman, the man who refuses to use lethal force, would be able to _achieve_ a fatality. But since there apparently won't be any for anyone, there you go.

@okenny :):
Yeah. Poor Scorpion. Hey, Batman went toe to toe with Darkseid and survived. He didn't _win_, but he managed to dodge the Omega Beams (you know, those rays Darkseid shoots out of his eyes that travel around corners and hit you no matter where you hide?).

Purple Dave

@Ignorance's Enemy: Oh gawd...noooooooo!!!!

"The target of this game is a younger audience than former MK games, so we can wonder if this game might be a Nintendo Wii exclusive, while Ps3 and X-Box 360 receive the true MK8, darker and grittier than ever."

That would break my heart if they did that, seriously.

KidU

Not really surprised. I mean, SCIV has Star Wars characters.

chords of steel

Yet, another very credible M.K site:
[news.mortal-kombat.org]

Confirming that its true. They also make a very very interesting claim, that this game is for younger audiences, so, no fatalities and decapations which would put this collaboration into work since the obvious imposing factor was DC+Gore=Not Happening.
They also impose the thought that the "true" MK8 would be a more grown up version geared towards their normal audience. [i.e. fatalities and whatnot]

Ignorance's Enemy

@nih: I'm all for tasteless humor, belive me, but that's just unnecessary. You lose 1 internets...

Back on topic: I really don't know what to say about this other than, 'Huh?' and 'Wow...'

If anything, they definitely have me intrigued..

JerrD74: hates the media

Mortal Kombat games are only good now a days for gratuitous violence, and this one doesn't even have that.

Forget for a second that this is supposed to have DC in it. This is a Mortal Kombat game, the series that practically invented controversy in games, without the violence.

This is like loading up a DOA game only to find all the girl fighters have been replaced by hyper realistic drawings of Louie Anderson in bikinis.

Thorax

@rasutoibuki: Holland and Hart were the original registrars of the website, but it has since changed hands it seems. Note that the IP for the site is 208.58.149.2.....which also happens to be the same IP listed for the website for fellow Midway games Touchmaster and TNA Impact. The IP for Midway's home site is 208.58.149.3. This seems 100% legit to me based on that.

KidU

Well, let's just look at it this way:

Most Capcom games? Pretty good.
Most Marvel games? Well, not so much, but better than most other comics-based games. Ultimate Alliance was good times.

Most Mortal Kombat games? Pretty bad.
Most DC games? Also pretty bad.

Marvel + Capcom = Awesomeness!
MK + DC = Hard to say, but don't get your hopes up, people...

The Mortal Kombat series could really use an immediate infusion of awesome...but I'm not sure if this is it.

GhostWhoWalks

i so dont think this is legit.

besides, wolrlds collide is a crossover with milestone!
[en.wikipedia.org])

besides, its to crude a name for such a geek drool drawing event.

im gonna dive into cgtalk and other 3d forums, im so sure this came from there...

jtraveller

I hope this is not the "Next" Mortal Kombat they have been talking about for the past year...

StealthMaster86

Here you guys go, how this all came to be:
[www.mksecrets.net]

Take it with what you want, but as a major site revolving around M.K, there woudln't be no other reason for this rather than what is stated. Start your hand exercises and get ready for some fatality on tighty whitey action!

Ignorance's Enemy

Meh...

Thrill kill vs DC on the other hand would be AWESOME.

Antihippy

They're going to ruin this, I can feel it in my bones.

wonderosa

I might have been amused if Mortal Kombat wasn't a shitty series with lame controls.

DimensionWarped

@nih: There's no reason for that.

SynKade

I'm calling fake. Midway wouldn't miss the chance to make the website "worldskollide.com". That c looks so out of place.

Cydewinder

you think Darth Vader is gonna be on it?

Here's hoping!!

VakeroRokero

@Hollowcow:
Yeah, but that's not an official site, is it?

mrplow8

Just one more thing before I go to cry in a corner. This article should update that the site that stated this www.Mortalkombatonline.com updated at one in the morning stating that Midway confirmed this. Believe it or not this is 99% confirmed (still waiting for someone to say april fools...)

Hollowcow

Doomsday. 'Nuff said.

Moridin

@mrplow8: Oh oops, I wasn't sure at first, but then again I should have known he wasn't in the same universe.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

When you think about Solid Snake fighting Princess Peach and Darth Vader fighting Voldo, this game is probably the least ridiculous crossover to come out this year.

mrplow8

Steaming poo.

I mean, I just don't get it. Why waste a perfectly good DC license by pissing all over it with MK?

MK is dead. SC is adding Yoda, proving that they have absolutely zero idea what it is that the market really wants out of an SC4.

King of Fighters and Street Fighter appear to be the only sane people left in the room; MK wants to wear tights and SC wants force push boobies.

I just find it so hard to get excited about what amounts to some marketing man's wet dream. Chocolate and peanut butter work perfectly well, sure, but on the other hand, if I find blood in my stool I go to a doctor, I don't fish it out of the toilet and put it on show.

Sorry, Midway. No win button for you.

gblock

I don't believe for a second, if only because everybody knows Batman would win every fight. ever.

Deckart

FATALITY!!
Scorpion, Wins.

Ignorance's Enemy

I heard Heath Ledger is in it, that it's more of a Batman thing.

His special move is to steal victory from you by overdosing.

nih

I'd say this is totally rediculous but after Vader/Yoda in SC, who knows what will happen next.

sobjw

Chocolate, Peanut Butter, And Blood Combinations FTW!!!

It is hard to believe that DC would bite into the gore scene with two pounds of kryptonite and a batmorang, but, in todays world, anything is possible, you never kno, if this is real, then they know they can make one of the most brilliantly vs. fighter games ever.

Robin: Gee wilickers Batman! Did you just yell Get Over Here?

Batman: No, why?

Robin: Oh, Thought I Heard *Splat*

Ignorance's Enemy

Well it worked for Capcom and Marvel but when is the last time they made a good Mortal Kombat? I tuned out after II and can anybody think of a DC Comcis game that didn't suck?

CallMeRotten

Hey guys...the website that claims this also claims Midway confirmed it.

The end of the world is at hand!

(Shaves hair and makes aluminum hat).

Hollowcow

Well the countdown clock on Noob.com ended today with the message"GEMORAB STIFL WORMOTOR" on the bottom of a blurry pic of Scorpion grabbing someone's arm. The unscrambled message reads "Embargo Lifts Tomorrow" so I guess we'll find out soon.

bluemarcell

@Trowble (XBL/PSN):
Hulk is a Marvel character.

mrplow8

Hasn't been a decent MK game in 10 years? Ah come on MK Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armageddon was at least decent. Some may even say that Deception was great.

Cartman86

I just want to know if I can I tell Wonder Woman to "Get over here" and then rip out her spine or smash Hulk with Liu Kangs Mortal Kombat 3 arcade.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@MarshmallowMark:

Didn't you hear? DC's struck a deal with Epic in which they'll be making a Gears of War comic series.

beem

It is too late. Mortal Kombat is going to blow unless they scrap the "new" slow-ass fighting system, and bring back the fast paced MK3 action. I haven't really enjoyed a Mortal Kombat game since. Tossing in Batman is not going to fix that.

If the combat is fixed, I'll buy this faster than you can say "Clichèd joke"

Ghede

@rasutoibuki: a quick search pulls up a national law firm based in colorado. they do have a separate entity dealing in intellectual property law, specifically, and that entity has offices in many different parts of the country. so I suppose midway could've arranged for their IP lawyers to pick up the domain? maybe?

wild homes

Hmm, I haven't cared about Mortal Kombat since MK2, but I do like DC comics. Though to be honest, I wout rather see another Marvel vs. Capcom sequel (Yes, I know it isn't going to happen.) since I care about Marvel comics and Capcom games allot more than I do Midway games and DC comics.

If this is the real deal, I'm up for it. Doomsday better be included or something is completely wrong.

KeroseneClimax

Batman, Raiden
Superman, Shang Tsung
Sonya Blade, Catwoman

The possibilities are endless.

A little obscure, sure. But why not?

MykalBloom