Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm has laid off its mobile team. While it’s unclear how many employees were affected, the number is reportedly more than 50.
Several now-former employees posted on LinkedIn about being laid off from NetherRealm. A quality assurance analyst said, “Unfortunately, NetherRealms mobile team was shut down. A ton of very talented people were put out of work. We had live services on multiple titles such as Mortal Kombat Mobile, Injustice 2, and Mortal Kombat Onslaught.”
An animator also said, “It hurts me to announce I’ve been laid off from NetherRealm Studios after about 10 years of working there.” GameSpot has reached out to WB Games for comment.
Over the past few years, many video game studios have conducted mass layoffs, all the way from the biggest developers like Ubisoft to smaller ones like Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios.
The mobile entries of the Mortal Kombat series include Mortal Kombat Mobile, which was released in 2015 and is a free-to-play fighting and card-battler hybrid of Mortal Kombat X. Mortal Kombat: Onslaught launched in 2023 and is more of a free-to-play mobile multiplayer online battle arena game, a departure from the mainline traditional fighting game.
