After nearly two years of active updates and DLC releases, the latest entry inMortal Kombat’s 33-year-long franchise,Mortal Kombat 1, was classified as complete with the May 2025 digital release ofMortal Kombat 1: Definitive Edition. WhileMortal Kombat 1is still receiving online multiplayer support, fans were uncertain what theMortal Kombatfranchise would do next, until June 2025’s Sony State of Play event brought the announcement of Digital Eclipse’s upcomingMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection. A compilation game featuring 19 versions of several classicMortal Kombattitles so far,Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollectioncurrently has no official release window. However,Legacy Kollectionmay have a perfect release date already slated if the supposed leak turns out to be true.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection’s Leaked Release Date Explained
WhenMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollectionwas first announced, Digital Eclipse only confirmed that the game would debut sometime in 2025 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox, and PC platforms. Little is still currently known aboutMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollectionwith the current game roster for theLegacyKollectioncurrentlyincluding:
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollectionwill feature Arcade, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega 32X, and Game Boy Advance versions of the aforementioned games, but Digital Eclipse suggested that more games could be included in the Kollection.
News onMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollectionhas been relatively barren since the State of Play, but a new supposed leak suggests that fighting game fans may be able to get their hands on the compilation sooner than expected. According to Reddit user ByrdofMemes, the Xbox app has supposedly leakedMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection’s release date, with the app listing the compilation as launching on Monday, September 29 later this year. Screenshots of the listing have since come to the surface, though Digital Eclipse has not yet confirmed whether this release date forMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollectionis true. Currently, the app listsLegacy Kollectionas launching on Wednesday, December 31, though this is very likely a placeholder until Digital Eclipse formally announces the compilation’s launch date.
The Potential Tie-In of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
While the authenticity ofMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection’s supposed release date remains to be determined, with some fans even claiming that the game may debut on September 30, this leaked release date could potentially be intentional if proven to be true. September 29 is just one day away from the start of October and the Halloween month is already expected to be an exciting time forMortal Kombatfans, withNew Line Cinema’sMortal Kombat IIfilm slated to debut on Friday, October 24. IfLegacy Kollection’s leaked release date turns out to be true, it would give players about three weeks to relive the classicMortal Kombat 2and other celebratedMortal Kombatgames ahead of the film’s premiere.
Sales ofMortal Kombat 1have so far been notoriously low, especially compared to the sales ofMortal Kombat 11, but the upcoming release ofMortal Kombat: Legacy KollectionandMortal Kombat 2could help revitalize theMortal Kombatfranchise. For example, withLegacy Kolletionfeaturing some of the franchise’s most iconic titles and online multiplayer with rollback netcode, it could potentially attract both older fans striving to relive nostalgic moments and younger fans who never had a chance to play oldMortal Kombatarcade cabinets. This, in turn, could motivate players to watch theMortal Kombat IIfilm and potentially lead to people trying outMortal Kombat 1due to it being the most recent mainlineMortal Kombatgame.
