 time to wake up to a new reality, to a blank canvas that I have painted in with warmth and peace. In my new era, the choice is yours, whether to live in quiet serenity or bloody strife to dwell in joyous prosperity or bitter rivalry and face each other as sworn enemies or united as brothers is brewing discover even in this new era constant remains there is always something worth fighting for who have chosen to defy peace then you have chosen war with a god all right welcome everyone to this short stream you just saw the trailer again and i am here with mr ed boon to discuss mortal combat one great to see everyone we uh i can't tell you how much we've been chomping at the bit to tell you about this game we've been holding on to so much information that this is really kind of the beginning of a very dense campaign well we will be giving you all the information you want to know about mortal combat and uh i guess we're just kicking things off right here and we just saw the trailer um what is what is your favorite part of the trailer first time i saw goose bumps what really got you my favorite part of the trailer is the fact that it's kind of like a different format than before normally we're really telling you know the intense fight ending with a fatality and this one is a lot more story focused uh there's it's giving you an idea of this all the characters in their new relationships their new reality um you see a lot of origin stuff of how characters became to be that's going to be a really cool part of our story um so that the trailer is really kind of establishing that but at the very end the end of the day this is a mortal combat game so we really wanted it to end with a um with a bang and that is uh the reason why the ending is as kind of brutal as it is there's fatalities of course because it is mortal combat but i'm i i love this new kind of story presentation that we're giving yeah really it starts serene and then it kind of it goes crazy at the end a really cool cadence that way um so a good question then uh why do we decide to go with mortal combat one mortal combat one like i said this is really uh and at the beginning of a universe in a sense and it is not a continuation of the mortal combat 11 story so loop you know again the characters have completely different roles in this uh new timeline and we really wanted to kind of punctuate that and really really emphasize that with our title so this is mortal combat one it is a brand new beginning you're going to be seeing like i said these characters reintroduced and their new roles new relationships with each other and that's the the main catalyst for calling it mortal combat one and so we got you know luke hang being a big part of this game obviously uh talk a little bit about the cover yeah yeah you know scorpion sub-zero have always been you know the poster child of mortal combat you know they're they're the most recognizable characters but because this is luke hang's universe we again we really wanted to mix things up that the color scheme in our in our key art is different uh luke hang you know the the first time we really kind of featured him up in front and so again this is all about a whole new mortal combat and i do think that luke hang is a great uh face to put up front to just kind of really really again punctuate that this is a brand new mortal combat it's not just a continuation of the last one right uh let's switch gears a little bit uh kind of go to our fans and our very very talented fans uh can you talk a little about the collective yeah the collective is coming back that's always been for me one of my favorite parts about our campaigns is just seeing the unbelievably creative approaches that artists from all over the world all all different kinds of art have uh you know their expression of the mortal combat characters is is is so inspiring for everybody in our studio you know from cakes paintings to you know anime it just just um it's so many different styles to me that's uh again one of my favorite parts of uh of kind of our campaigns and over the years we've opened you know when it first started it was a lot of just art but now we've moved on to like just talking baking shoes everything yeah yeah it's super cool so keep an eye out for that um big question we get all the time will there be a collector's edition yes there will be a collector's edition that's another fun part of it and it's uh by course which is the the the company that made the mortal combat uh x scorpion right corpse corpse and um so we're excited about that because they're they have such a distinct style and their version of luke hang with dragons is going to be cool there's going to be a video that's following this at the end of the show we're going to show a video of the behind the scenes creation of that uh special edition or collector's edition part really special uh we you know this was just going to be a short stream to start uh just want to let people know i mean it's coming up the game is it's this year yeah so like ed said it'll be a a dense lot of information coming at you exact there's a lot of stuff that we're going to be telling you um revealing new our new gameplay mechanic the new game modes the the new look of the of the game of course the story and uh it's it's going to be a lot of cool stuff that's coming and one way we'll be able to give you a lot of information we've been getting tweets about the combat cast will return that's right that's right um to me uh i'm i've always been a huge fan of the combat cast just because it really gives um a little bit more of a connection with our audience you know tower taking questions and um just keeping everybody up to speed with what's going on always showing peaks of the of the game and all that so that that's one of my favorite parts of this too and put you on the spot here can i get you as a guest on one of the shows no unless if this doesn't count then definitely well yeah it can but we'll talk um awesome so super excited thank you so much yeah um we talked today earlier and once the trailers and stuff the teasers start going out the excitement it just starts building especially in this building yeah and that's exciting for all of us yeah it's what yeah and again we've been working on this game i think longer than any Mortal Kombat game and uh the it's gonna show we're gonna be you're gonna be excited to see the new stuff that we we've got uh we can't wait to tell you about it's absolutely beautiful can't wait please stick around because right up now we're gonna show you the behind the scenes with course on the Mortal Kombat 1 collector's edition we will see you soon yep