The Winter E3, aka The Game Awards, is airing adjacent week and radical are getting excited astir what volition beryllium revealed during the three-hour montage of trailers and awards. But if you were excited astir a caller Mortal Kombat or Injustice 3 making a astonishment appearance, well, you mightiness privation to beryllium down. I’ve got immoderate atrocious quality to share.

During the 2018 Game Awards, NetherRealm revealed Mortal Kombat 11 to the world via a splashy cinematic trailer. Now, 4 unfathomably agelong years later, fans are near wondering wherever the studio’s adjacent crippled is. In the past, workplace originative manager Ed Boon would popular up each 2 years oregon truthful to denote its adjacent large game. But that hasn’t happened yet, and it has immoderate players getting precise anxious arsenic the longest-ever hold betwixt NetherRealm projects grows time aft day. So, of course, galore began looking toward December 8’s Game Awards for hope. Some theorized that similar successful 2018, Boon and co. would usage the yearly amusement to uncover their adjacent large thing. But consecutive from Boon himself, that ain’t happening.

Earlier today, Boon tweeted that portion helium appreciates the excitement fans person for the studio’s adjacent game, they aren’t acceptable to denote thing yet.

“Four years agone astatine the Game Awards we managed to propulsion disconnected a astonishment announcement of MK11, which turned retired great,” tweeted Boon. “Perhaps excessively great, arsenic galore assumed we’d repetition that instrumentality for our adjacent game. Thank you for the anticipation, but we’re not acceptable to denote the adjacent NRS crippled yet.”

Of course, adjacent with specified a wide and blunt connection saying “No, we aren’t announcing the adjacent Injustice or Mortal Kombat adjacent week, sorry,” immoderate folks are inactive hoping he’s not telling the full truth. And successful their defense, Ed Boon has been known to troll his online fans and messiness with them utilizing memes oregon teases. But here, it does look similar helium really, ace duper doesn’t privation radical to get excited implicit nothing.

If you truly wanted you could work into his tweet and find immoderate wiggle country that would let for, like, the workplace isn’t acceptable to denote its adjacent game…but it is acceptable to merchandise it! And past NetherRealm and WB stealth-drop MK12 or Injustice 3. But I wouldn’t bargain into that chaotic mentation due to the fact that it volition lone extremity with you depressed and bummed erstwhile it doesn’t happen. Still, if you resoluteness to beryllium done The Game Awards anyway, you could extremity up winning a escaped Steam Deck for your trouble. It’s nary MK12, but what is?