Mortal Kombat’s All-Inclusive XL Edition now on PC, Online Enhanced Beta Launched

Mortal Kombat's all-inclusive XL edition has now finally been confirmed to be coming to PC. The Enhanced Online Beta version can be played on PC via Steam, available from now until August 29th at 10 a.m. PDT. Mortal Kombat XL is the complete version of Mortal Kombat X which contains the base game and all of the post-launch DLC. It came out on PS4 and Xbox One back in March.

Co-creator Ed Boon teased an image of a motherboard earlier this week, alongside a coded message which spelled out "MKXLPC", before tweeting this earlier:

Download the Mortal Kombat XL for PC Beta for FREE here. Help us make it the best it can be!https://t.co/OLITe8DbFe pic.twitter.com/vXka6tFTjn

— Ed Boon (@noobde) August 26, 2016

What's New in the Game

Mortal Kombat XL includes Kombat Pack 2, which features Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, returning face Bo' Rai Cho, newbie Triborg (think Cyrax, Robot Smoke, and Sektor rolled into one), and the Alien xenomorph--the latter of which is easily the coolest of the lot. It also includes the Apocalypse skin pack, previously released content such as playable Goro, Brazil skin pack, Kold War skin pack, the Kold War Scorpion skin, Kombat Pack 1 and updates for the game to run on the GGPO netcode.

If you fancy it, you can now head over to the Mortal Kombat X Steam page to sign up free-of-charge which will help developers of NetherRealm "test improved online gameplay and more," so reads an update. Brant McCaskill pointed out in his tweet, the MKXL PC beta conveniently ends on August 29th, which is the day before Tuesday, August 30th.

Release Date

Unfortunately, the exact date for Mortal Kombat XL's official release for PC hasn't yet been revealed. NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive will most likely take their time carefully working on Mortal Kombat XL to prevent massive errors from ruining the PC port once again. Ed Boon's latest poll indicates that NetherRealm is looking into GGPO netcode for online matches, which should help to create a nearly lag-free experience for gamers, so that should provide a significant online gameplay improvement over the original release.