That has occurred to me too. I love Game Informer and they seem to be fans of MK there. They recently did a Super Replay of Shaolin Monks. I think I actually got introduced to Game Informer when they first did their Replay of MK Mythologies,

I see Andrew Reiner tweet with Boon from time to time, but I never saw that tweet you mentioned with the photo shoot. That would be cool though. I remember Injustice was one of the covers they did before that came out, but it was one of many covers that month.

Watching Dan Rykert let's play Shaolin Monks was amazing

I still remember when I first found about Deadly Alliance through Game Informer. I didn't have internet at the time but had a subscription to the magazine. I flipped my shit when I got that month's issue and the cover story was about a new Mortal Kombat with a brand new design of Scorpion on the front. I still remember how that issue revealed Drahmin, Bo Rai'Cho, 'Blind Kenshi'(the Blind part was later dropped) and 'Malvado'(it was later changed to Mavado).

I found out about MK9 the same way.

Was it Game Informer that had a multiple page spread on MKD? Or was it GamePro?

I remember the quote at the bottom of an Ashrah picture saying something like No..this Is not a female Raiden.

"Malvado" means that you're someone evil in portuguese.

It's not surprising at all. Fighting games are so far under the mainstream radar these days, major publications don't give two fucks about them.

Game Informer has ALWAYS given a fuck about Mortal Kombat.

They will probably give MKX a cover when it hits March or April.