Mortal Kombat for the PlayStation Vita will release on May 4th.

“Mortal Kombat for PlayStation Vita allows us to bring the best possible fighting experience to our loyal fans – anytime, anywhere,” said Ed Boon, Creative Director, NetherRealm Studios. “The game runs at a seamless 60 frames per second, and provides unique gameplay modes and features that take advantage of PlayStation Vita’s exciting new hardware capabilities. Mortal Kombat for PlayStation Vita is the ultimate portable fighting gameand provides hours of fun for mobile gamers.”

The fighting game is available for the PS Vita system in the UK on May 4th.

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Developing Mortal Kombat for PS Vita was an incredibly rewarding experience for the team here at NetherRealm Studios. The ability to utilize the numerous new features available on PS Vita was a very gratifying mission, and we are delivering the best possible on-the-go fighting experience for fans.

Our design team jumped at the opportunity to devise 150 new Challenge Tower missions that incorporate the DLC characters (like Freddy Krueger!), while also integrating the front touchscreen and accelerometer in ways that made sense and enhanced the complete Mortal Kombat experience.

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Mortal Kombat Vita, which was announced a little while back, will run at a solid 60 FPS, looking almost as astounding as the console versions of the game did. This is unprecedented for a handheld system, and we’re excited to see how it’ll look in the final product.

When asked about the same in a Q&A session with EU PS Blog, Ed Boon, Creative Director at NetherRealm Studios, said “We wouldn’t accept any compromises there; we needed the game to run at the same framerate as the PS3 version. A number of our internal people proposed running it at 30 frames per second — “we could do this and this and that” — but we knew it would feel different. We didn’t want it to feel sluggish or unresponsive.”

Mortal Kombat for PS Vita will release in Spring 2012. Stay tuned for more updates.

Warner Bros. has just revealed Mortal Kombat for the Vita, and dual analogue fans will no doubt be rejoicing for some hardcore action on the go.

Mortal Kombat was released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 last year, and went on to sell 3 million units and garnered a lot of critical acclaim.

“The NetherRealm team is committed to making sure that we follow up the success of 2011’s Mortal Kombat with an equally compelling experience on the PlayStation Vita,” said Ed Boon, Creative Director, NetherRealm Studios.

“The original game content and new features we developed for the PlayStation Vita will provide gamers with the best fighting game experience available on the new mobile platform.”

There are new features for the Vita in development which will be revealed later.

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