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Strategy-Based ‘Mortal Kombat: Onslaught’ Now Available on Android and iOS [Trailer]
Almost a year to the day it was announced, NetherRealm and WB Games has launched Mortal Kombat: Onslaught for iOS and Android devices. For the first time in its history Mortal Kombat turns to fast-paced real-time strategy RPG battles of up to 10 characters.
The story is your typical Mortal Kombat fare. Only this time, in Mortal Kombat: Onslaught, you must build a team featuring your favorite Kombatants from Mortal Kombat‘s expansive history, and pit them against waves of foes. Assemble teams of four based on their unique fighting abilities, master kombat skills, like Kombos and Special Abilities, and create the strongest team, fighting your way through the game’s Story Mode.
Along the way, you’ll be collecting and leveling up iconic Fighters from Onslaught‘s massive roster, including veterans like Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Jade, Kitana, Jax, Sonya Blade, and more. You’ll also be summoning featured Fighters including rare fan-favorite variants of classic kombatants like Cyrax and Smoke.
Duel your way through the many chapters of RPG kombat, unlocking new champions along the way, and immersing yourself in the action-packed story of Shinnok’s bid for destruction. You’ll also earn a myriad of rewards and resources to increase your Fighters’ power, evolve kombat skills, and level up Gear. Onslaught also features Relics—powerful items pulled from Mortal Kombat lore—that you can equip on specific Fighters strategically and earn battle effect bonuses.
And if Story Mode isn’t enough, you can move over to the Boss Tower and Chasm Modes, or take your fighters to the Arena and challenge other players. Participating in player-versus-player Seasons will earn you special Arena rewards, not to mention having you climb the leaderboards to show everyone what you’re made of.
Overshadowing the announcement of Ninja Theory’s third entry in the Hellblade series earlier this month were reports that the developer was facing possible closure by Microsoft, alongside South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games and Double Fine. Now according to a new story by GamesBeat, another developer under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella is potentially facing closure in Undead Labs, who are currently working on State of Decay 3.
Earlier this month, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had announced that Microsoft was in the process of ‘resetting’ Xbox. That resulted in a report by Bloomberg during Summer Game Fest that revealed that multiple developers were negotiating with Microsoft to spin off of Xbox to avoid closing down. Now, according to the GamesBeat report, Undead Labs is now part of that group of developers negotiating to be bought to avoid layoffs.
The article states that Undead Labs could lose 110 jobs if it were shut down, while Compulsion could lose 90 jobs, Ninja Theory could lose 135 jobs, and Double Fine Productions could lose 100 jobs.
Other developers and publishers at Microsoft also reportedly face cuts, including Blizzard, id Software and Bethesda.
Undead Labs was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, with State of Decay 3 being announced in 2020. News on the development of the game was quiet until 2024, when a new trailer was released. Updates on the game again were hard to come by until last January when then-Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan revealed that development was still very much alive. That was followed up this month with an official announcement that State of Decay 3 would be coming next year to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.