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Тhis is not the kind of news that we usually post here. However, it is just as important if not even more so and it needs to be addressed and shared.

For those of you who don't know, there is a longtime member of the Mortal Kombat community named Jason Sodano, also known as Check. He's best known for his YouTube channel where over the years he has posted a lot of MK and NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. game videos, mainly for the 3D era of MK games. He also helped at putting together episodes 8, 9 and 10 of The History of Mortal Kombat.

Unfortunately, over the course of the last year and half, Check has suffered some severe health issues, which caused him an immense amount of pain and mental suffering. In October of 2021, fearing the worst, he made his condition public knowledge via a heartbreaking post over at fellow Mortal Kombat fan site Test Your Might.

Almost a year later, Check reappeared with a new Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance combo video, informing everyone that the fight for his health still continues and is unfortunately far from over.

The ongoing health issues led to so many medical bills, that it left him no choice but to start a Go Fund Me page in order to raise enough money to pay for the treatment that he needs.

We are humbled by the strength of everyone suffering an ongoing medical problem and ask everyone who can to support Check in his time of need to do so. Any help is appreciated and welcome.

Click here to visit Check's Go Fund Me page.

Huge thanks to ded for informing us about this situation.

And for those who are interested to see Check's work, check out his latest Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance combo video right here, enjoy.

In just above a couple of weeks, Mortal Kombat will celebrate it's 30th anniversary, and we got yet another origins story en route to the occasion, this time from John Tobias, with the main topic being origins of the iconic MK dragon logo, and how it led to various other stuff being given and made for the series, including the Mortal Kombat name.

Tobias starts the story by sharing a recently discovered image of the first drawing of the MK dragon logo, followed by how fellow MK team member, John Vogel, used the digitized graphics system of Mortal Kombat 1 to literally digitize the drawing into the character select screen of the game.

Tobias then shares that the original planned for the game was supposed to be "Dragon Attack", a name that came for a song by the iconic band Queen, of which Ed Boon is huge fan of (and they were even given a reference through Rain's 2nd Fatality in Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate). That is, of course, until both Boon and Tobias changed the title to Mortal Kombat. Tobias also shares that this was the inspiration for using a dragon as the symbol for the tournament, although not as the logo for the whole series at that point yet.

Tobias continues the story by saying that the idea of using the dragon symbol as the overall logo for the series came from a golden dragon statue that was on the desk of Ken Fedesna, the general manager of Midway at the time. This also led to the addition of the golden dragon statue at MK1's Shang Tsung's Throne Room stage as well as the dragon on the side panel for the game's Arcade machine.

As you can see, the original logo had the dragon facing left. However, until Mortal Kombat II, the logo was used facing both sides for the Arcade machines. With Acclaim's console releases of the games, the MK choose to keep only the right version of the logo as they could've only use one for marketing purposes. Tobias then shares that the final design for the dragon icon was an attempt at replicating the yin yang symbol, which represented balancing of the furies- a core part of MK’s early fiction

Tobias ends the story a couple of extra notes: Firstly, he tells the he almost tossed the sketch for the dragon icon thanks for his sister, and finally, he shares a picture of the same golden dragon statue that was used for the logo, that was found by Boon 30 years later.

This is a classic case of the domino effect, as one idea have led to so many other things that we are know and familiar with in the MK series. Looks like the dragon has indeed scorched a ton of land, and marked it's territory by a flame that still burns strong for 30 years, and nothing is going to extinguish that flame.

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The Mortal Kombat series has been full of references and Easter Eggs over the years, both from it's own series and other series as well. This however is one of the cases of another series making a reference to MK.

In The Last of Us Remake, as shown by the Naughty Dog Central Twitter page, there is a shot in which a Mortal Kombat II poster can be seen on the wall. This shot is taken from a cutscene in the Left Behind DLC update for the game.

Keep in mind that this is only seen in the remake, but not in the original game.

A fun fact, one of Naughty Dog's very first games was a fighting game called Way of the Warrior, which was a glorified MK clone, which obviously flopped. Naughty Dog are clearly fans of MK, and perhaps in the spirit of the upcoming Mortal Kombat 30th anniversary, they felt it was the right time to pay homage to the iconic fighting game genre. And it surely is an awesome one at that.

Credit to Mortal Kombat Online.

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The hype for the Mortal Kombat 30th anniversary continues, as Ed Boon has shared yet another story around the first game in the series, Mortal Kombat 1, this time focusing on the creation of the leg grabbing, death kissing Special Forces kombatant, Sonya Blade, and her iconic Leg Grab special move.

During the video you will see the character select screen of an early build of the original Mortal Kombat 1 that has never been seen before:
Now have a look at the video itself:

Boon than goes on to mention how they were all excited to see the Leg Grab being used in the original 1995 Mortal Kombat movie, indicating it's status as one of the most iconic moves in the history of the franchise.

As Boon previously mentioned the kombat cop Kurtis Stryker, he also goes on to tell how this all led to the creation of both Stryker and the pounding and grabbing powerhouse of the Special Forces, Jackson "Jax" Briggs.

And finally, Boon reveal something pretty shocking, that both Sonya Blade and the yellow female Ninja, Tanya, are actually named after Boon's sisters.

If and when Ed Boon decides to share even more stories leading to the MK 30th anniversary, we will surely be ready to cover the news about them, so stay tuned.

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Novabox, the company that made the Steelbook for the Mortal Kombat 11's special/premium editions, announced a set of 5 Special Editions of the game for Mortal Kombat's 30th Anniversary.

The sets include the PlayStation 4 version of Mortal Kombat 11 (unknown whether its the base game or Ultimate), a Steelcase for the game in the well familiar form, 1 metal poster and 2 postcards. Each set is limited to only 100 units.

Have a look at the different sets:
From the announcement on Instagram:

At the occasion of Mortal Kombat 30th anniversary, Novobox will release the " special edition boxset" below including

- the Mortal Kombat 11 video game on playstation 4 .
- the futureoak premium steelcase with spot gloss and debosaing with giant blue colector coin magnet
- each set will have 1 exclusive limited matt finish metal poster and 2 exclusive postcards . LIMITED to only 100 units worldwide for each metal poster and postcards.

Total is 5 different sets .
The metal poster and postcards are different in each of the 5 sets .
Total is only 5 times 100 sets worldwide.

Previsional sreet date is mid December 2022.

So far the PlayStation 4 seems to be the only platform to get this release. In addition prizes (29,99) are in Euro, so it is unclear in what other territories these would be available.

What do you guys think of this Special release of the game, would you be picking of these to celebrate Mortal Kombat's 30 Anniversary? Tell us in the comments.

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