After Mortal Kombat 11 Director Ed Boon posted a gif of a cartoon hand rolling ones with a pair of dice on Twitter Wednesday, rumors flew that he was teasing the addition of G.I. Joe's Snake Eyes or a Dimitri Vegas skin for Sub-Zero as future DLC. While the guess is not totally unfounded given Boon's history of trolling fans, NetherRealm Studios' Creative Director confirmed today he was simply posting about attending the 2020 D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas.
The Design Innovate Communicate Entertain (D.I.C.E.) Summit is an annual event hosted by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences where members of the video game industry gather to attend conferences, take part in events like go-kart and poker tournaments, and present awards to AAA and indie games. This year Control, Death Stranding, and Untitled Goose Game are among the nominees for Game of the Year at the D.I.C.E. Awards.
Those awards are being presented tonight between 8:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. PST, and will be followed by an after-party to close out the three-day Summit according to its online schedule. Even if it was tantalizing to see Mortal Kombat 11 Director Boon's Tweet as some 3D chess-level tease for fans, the text saying "Vegas" above his gif was probably a good indication to it being an innocuous message.
The popular fighting game Mortal Kombat 11 has been in the news for its DLC recently, as D.C. Comics' Joker was released as a fighter this month. Players can expect to learn more about Spawn, a character from Image Comics created by Todd McFarlane who is coming to wrap up the game's first Kombat Pack, at the esports championship event Final Kombat 2020 on March 8.
MK11 received an additional amount of attention when it was found to not be among other fighting games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Tekken 7 in the lineup for EVO 2020. The snub was surprising to many considering the game was only released in 2019 and has continually added DLC since then.
Even without its presence at EVO, fans of the gruesome fighting game will keep playing it to discover all the brutalities characters like Joker are capable of dishing out. As long as they are doing that, Boon's social media will constantly be under scrutiny — whether the leads it gives are false positives or not.
Mortal Kombat 11 is out now for PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, and Xbox One.
Source: D.I.C.E. Summit 2020 schedule