Ed Boon has been busy as a beaver, updating his Twitter account. There's been a flurry of activity over the last day or two in regards to the next installment of Mortal Kombat. Here are some of the more interesting quotes from his Twitter account:

Done with mocap, done with casting auditions...how the hell did it get to be 5:30 so fast?

Listening to casting auditions in the sound dept.

Now we're capturing animations for John Vogel.

Capturing some of Paulo's ideas now.

Tony Z. Rick O. and Carlos P. in the new/old mocap studio.

Meeting on our new fighting feature spilled over into lunch hour. Gonna have soup in my office and prep for this afternoon's mocap.

We are doing motion capture today in the new/old mocap studio.

Long, long, day..We motion captured 14 fatalities today. I think thats a record for us !!

He also supplied us with this photograph:


And yet another big thanks go to for keeping us posted on this one.

Ed Boon's Twitter account sure is active lately. Now, he has posted a screenshot of a previously unrevealed character from MK: Deadly Alliance. This one is a male vampire character with wild blue hair, who was never 100% completed. From Ed Boon himself:

Cutting Room Floor - Nitara from Deadly Alliance originally had a male counterpart but we decided not to finish him

To read Ed's tweet directly, just go here. A huge thanks go to for yet another News Lead!

The folks over at GameSpot have posted a story in their Rumor Control section, and it seems pretty legit. Essentially, this story broke because a number of former Midway employees have updated their LinkedIn profiles so that they now read "WB Games Chicago" instead of "Midway Games".

While GameSpot's calls were not returned, one of the LinkedIn profiles reportedly reads:

"I work at WB Games Chicago (used to be Midway Games Chicago) on the Mortal Kombat team."

To read the full article on GameSpot, click here. Their main source was a page on SuperAnnutation, which can be found here.

Ed Boon posted on his Twitter page a screenshot which reveals some more lost kontent - this time around, an early design of Mavado MK: Deadly Alliance. Boon's words:

Here is a cutting-room-floor design of Mavado from MKDA. Looked too much like a matador.

To go directly to Ed's Twitter comment, click here. Our gratitude to samus_aran3900 for spreading the word!

Ed Boon posted yet another image on his Twitter page, this time a swamp level that almost made its way into MK: Deadly Alliance. Ed's words:

• This SWAMP arena was ultimately cut from the lineup in Deadly Alliance but was modeled sans textures.
• ...I have a TON of cutting room floor stuff and if you guys seem to enjoy it I'm happy 2
• This was an arena by the GREAT Tony Goskie....BTW.

To read the quote on Ed's Twitter account directly, go here, here, and here. Our thanks go to for the word on this update!