Fans have been ready a very long time for a brand new Injustice sport, nevertheless it appears to be like like they’ll have to attend just a little longer after DC revealed a very totally different preventing sport… on cell.
DCKO is an upcoming free-to-play cell preventing sport developed by Drop Faux, Inc., an impartial sport studio primarily based in British Columbia. That includes characters from DC Comics, this title is a 2v2 tag fighter with collectible and RPG components the place gamers can degree up their fighters, unlock new stats, and enhance their talents by spending in-game foreign money. It is scheduled for launch in 2027.
It couldn’t be any extra totally different from NetherRealm’s Injustice video games, and that’s what has the preventing sport neighborhood in knots after DCKO’s announcement trailer launched on July 20, 2026.
“DC, this is not the time so that you can play video games and launch an Injustice clone. You realize what we wish,” one commenter wrote on YouTube.
“Ought to have been the following NetherRealm sport,” one other said on X.
Others can’t assist however reference Multiversus, the multi-property platform fighter revealed by Warner Bros. Video games that was famously delisted only one yr after its launch. (It’s value noting that DCKO is each developed and self-published by Drop Faux, Inc., although it’s formally licensed via Warner Bros. Game Interactive on behalf of DC.)
It’s been almost ten years because the final Injustice sport launched in 2017. Fans have been hoping for a 3rd set up within the franchise since Could 2025, when NetherRealm publicly confirmed it could now not add content material to Mortal Kombat 1 in an effort to concentrate on the studio’s “subsequent challenge.”
This challenge is rumored to be Injustice 3, with MP1st reporting the sport is in “lively improvement” at NetherRealm as of April 2026. The sport has been all however confirmed by a number of sources, together with the voice actors for Superman and Aquaman, who let slip their involvement within the sport in now-deleted social media posts, in addition to an artist who listed Injustice 3 on their Artstation portfolio.
And on July 16, Ed Boon himself posted a ‘Greatest Injustice 1 Tremendous Transfer Match’ ballot on X, giving followers much more hope {that a} new DC fighter from NetherRealm is on the best way. Whereas DCKO has thrown a complicated wrench within the combine, it doesn’t appear to have interrupted issues at NetherRealm, which has identified what its subsequent sport could be for a while now.
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