The first Mortal Kombat 12 teaser is apparently a grain of sand that explodes for some reason
Warner Bros. let slip in February that Mortal Kombat 12 is "set for release this year(opens in new tab)," and while that unexpected statement has yet to be officially confirmed, we may have just been given our first (unofficial) Mortal Kombat 12 teaser.
The big moment comes at the tail end of a «Thank You From NetherRealm» video posted today on YouTube, marking 30 years of Mortal Kombat. As the title implies, it's basically a cavalcade of developers saying «thank you» in various ways. Naturally, the gratitude-a-thon concludes with series co-creator and creative director Ed Boon, who says, «Thank you, Mortal Kombat fans, for 30 years of amazing support. And we're not quite done yet.»
And then things get interesting. The video quickly transitions to what appears to be some kind of mineral, maybe salt, or perhaps sand? Sand! And the sand appears to be falling slowly down some kind of cylinder of some sort, a tube, like maybe a straw, or possibly… an hourglass!
That's it! Sand through an hourglass! A timer! A countdown! But to what, I wonder?
But then it gets really weird, because then the video moves to focus on one individual grain of sand, zooming in super-close:
«That's not even what sand looks like up close!» features producer Chris Livingston complained in the PC Gamer Slack channel, snapping me out of a snoozy reverie. «Sand is all pretty.»
I hadn't actually thought about this before, so I did a quick Google search. Chris is correct in that sand is very pretty up close, but there are all sorts of different kinds, and at least some of them do bear a strong resemblance to the image in the NetherRealm video. This, for instance, is sand from the Western Desert of Egypt:
This is sand from the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State
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