There’s a lot of confusion regarding the big “Worlds Collide” story. Basically, there’s a very convincing site featuring a pre-rendered image of Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero and the Dark Knight himself, Batman, facing off with one another. Currently, the site isn’t CONFIRMED to be real, but who knows?

On the sidelines though is another story. Long-time followers of the Mortal Kombat franchise will remember noob.com, MK-creator Ed Boon’s personal site. Boon has had teasers of upcoming titles on his site before it went down for a good long while. Well noob.com is back up and running, and after a month-long countdown with nothing else on the site, we finally have an update… kinda.

Now all the site has is a very blurred image with jumbled-up letters at the bottom. So far, the only thing I’ve been able to decipher (I think) is that the second word is ‘lifts’. Chances are, this is in fact a tease of the next Mortal Kombat fighter, but what does it all mean? One more interesting note. Upon trying to save the image, the file was already named ‘rain02′. Could this be the purple ninja Rain? If you look at the image, you can kinda see an arm, as well as a figure that appears to be MK-favorite Scorpion, but maybe it’s just me.

From previous interviews, Ed Boon has said that the franchise’s step onto the current-gen of consoles will be as much as a revamp from MK4 to MK: Deadly Alliance, wiping the slate clean and starting anew. Other than the fact that we know it’ll be running on the Unreal 3 Engine, there’s not much else we know now. But expect some updates soon! I know I’m excited…

UPDATE - Worldscollide.com has now updated with a trailer and a downloadable wallpaper. The teaser shows off Sub-Zero and Batman beatin’ the crap out of one another.  There is no viewable hub or anything, but the fighting itself looks like an update from the previous games’ fight mechanics.  Batman knocks Sub-Zero through a wall and the two of them fall to an arena below, continuing the idea of changing environments presented in the last games.  However there is one new aspect to the combat.  As the two of them fall, they get into a mid-air brawl.  Chances are, this is a new mechanic in the game. 

Overall, it appears that the game will revolve around the idea of Mortal Kombat vs. DC.  Imagine doing Scorpion’s spear on Robin… oooh that’d be sweet.  Now you may want to complain or go “WTF?!” but don’t forget about Marvel vs. Capcom, one of the best and strangest fighting games ever.  Don’t you think some people were confused to see Cyclops and Chun Li on the same screen?  So I guess a Mortal Kombat vs. DC seems warranted.

See Noob.com here

See the teaser here