Planet MK has done some investigating for us. Even though our source's Russian magazine does exist- GameLand, the team at the magazine never heard of a person called Ilya Petrovich, name of the source who sent this information to us last evening . Also GameLand never claimed to have exclusive info on the next Mortal Kombat game. The origins of the logo remain unknown. Maybe it's a fake, but it might be something created by Midway as a teaser. We'll keep you informed as this story develops. We still have reason to believe however that Sonya Blade is confirmed and that they will be dropping the sub-title in the next Mortal Kombat game regardless if the title includes a V or not. Below is the logo we received. Click for a larger version.

Also we have received another tip that some special assets from Midway might be released to the public in the next day or two. Keep on the look out. As for information we report on this website - We will report anything that seems legit. Our job is to keep you informed and this includes rumors like the above. Always know that nothing at our website, or any other site, can not be proven true unless Midway sends out a press release of some kind.
 

We have just received an exclusive tip from a person who claims to be a staff member of a Russian magazine. According to him a local russian publisher sent them some info and media for the next Mortal Kombat game. The working title appears to be Mortal Kombat V - dropping any thought sub-title for this next installment. The logo that was attached to the e-mail we received looked legit. Their information also includes a few confirmed characters - Scorpion, Sub Zero, Sonya Blade, and Quan Chi. Our source would like to keep his credentials in secret and the magazine that he represents - thanks to our affiliates at Planet MK for checking that this magazine was indeed authentic. At the time of contact Midway would neither confirm or deny our findings.

Also our source has received the Mortal Kombat Video Teaser from E3 last May and promised to send it our way. We should have screen captures on our site in the near future.

Midway Games has annouced today that Mortal Kombat Advance has been shipped for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. Check back here soon for our new MK Advance section along with some other surprises.

Click on over to Midway.com as they have just posted a small link to "Mortal Kombat" towards the top of the page. This link brings up a pop-up window with a short flash clip stating that Mortal Kombat will be coming to next generation consoles Fall 2002. Then you can sign up for breaking updates by providing your email address and birth date. Notice nowhere do you see a "5". Maybe Midway is sticking to its original name afterall.

If anyone is interested IGN Pocket released an interview with the guys over at Virtucraft, developer of Mortal Kombat Advance, about their part in the conversion of UMK3 for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. Here are some highlights:

IGNpocket: Why did you choose to go with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in bringing the series to the handheld? Why not MK Trilogy, or even a version of Mortal Kombat 4?

Brian Beuken: The GBA is essentially a 2D system and we wanted to produce the an amalgam of best of the 2D games. Its not a straight port of UMK3, rather it takes the best bits from Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3, and Trilogy and crunches them all together.