The CEO of Eyeballistic has posted a suspicious tweet suggesting that publisher Warner may have decided to modernize the older content.

Eyeballistic is a group of developers, artists, programmers and passionate gamers. They’re the ones behind the MKHD fan project from a few years ago that never made it to the finish line. Here’s how the team explained the project’s cancellation on their website: “We are the team behind the MKHD fan project, where we infamously appealed to series co-creator Ed Boon to remake the original Mortal Kombat games in HD. Although MK IP owner Warner Bros. initially gave our team the green light to work on the project, they abruptly changed their minds due to evidence that it could cannibalize sales of their 2019 mainline MK game, thus ending Eyeballistic’s involvement.”

Except that Eyeballistic CEO Joe Tresca has been posting images of the remaster of the first two episodes of Mortal Kombat on Twitter. In June, Tresca wrote that they might have something special in the works, then a few days ago, he called attention to the first part with the question “Who can forget the game that started it all?” and showed an AI upscaled image of the first game. It’s visually better, but the models aren’t perfect, and Tresca admitted that it’s still a work in progress, and he could point to at least a hundred other bugs that will all be fixed.

This doesn’t officially mean that Warner has given Eyeballistic the green light for the MKHD project, but considering that it’s been five years since Mortal Kombat 11 (and another reboot, Mortal Kombat 1, was released in the meantime), maybe they can avoid the sales excuse now. Eyeballistic is on to something, and maybe Ed Boon was involved behind the scenes (holding his back for the team).

Let’s hope that this time there will be some results of the work…

Source: WCCFTech, Eyeballistic, DSOGaming