This article was originally written for TheNintendoVillage.com, a website I founded and ran from 2018 to 2021.

As we hurtle onwards into 2020 and towards an inevitable Nintendo Direct (at some point), more leaks and rumours are surfacing about games potentially heading to Switch in the year ahead. We’ve all heard the rumours about a new Paper Mario and 2D Metroid, and Bioshock was listed in Taiwan last week too.

Now it seems we’ll be getting some old-school Mortal Kombat before long too. Gematsu has spotted a listing for the game on European rater PEGI’s website, which mentions Switch alongside PS4, Xbox and PC as the relevant systems, along with the following blurb:

“Mortal Kombat Kollection Online is the original Mortal Kombat trilogy that Mortal Kombat fans always wanted. Upgraded art, gameplay, and online features provide an incredible experience that revive the ‘klassics’”

The remastered trilogy began life as a community project, eventually earning backing from Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon himself, and Warner Bros reportedly gave the project the green light. According to DSO Gaming, the project was then handed over to Blind Squirrel Games, before they too had the plug pulled in 2018.

It seems the project may have continued on under a different studio though. There’s been no announcement from Warner Bros yet, but if this rating is anything to go by, we won’t have to wait too long before we get one.

Check out some screenshots from the cancelled Blind Squirrel project below. Are you keen to revisit the early Mortal Kombat games? Let us know down in the comments.

Source: Gematsu, DSO Gaming