{"id":86246,"date":"2026-07-20T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86246"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:39:31","slug":"dc-announces-new-tag-fighting-game-and-injustice-fans-are-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86246","title":{"rendered":"DC Announces New Tag Fighting Game And Injustice Fans Are Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Fans have been waiting a long time for a new Injustice game, but it looks like they\u2019ll have to wait a little longer after DC revealed a totally different fighting game\u2026 on mobile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/playdcko.com\/\">DCKO<\/a> is an upcoming free-to-play mobile fighting game developed by Drop Fake, Inc., an independent game studio based in British Columbia. Featuring characters from DC Comics, this title is a 2v2 tag fighter with collectible and RPG elements where players can level up their fighters, unlock new stats, and boost their abilities by spending in-game currency. It&#8217;s scheduled for release in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>It couldn\u2019t be any more different from NetherRealm\u2019s Injustice games, and that\u2019s what has the fighting game community in knots after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YC7nGcrUKI\">DCKO\u2019s announcement trailer<\/a> released on July 20, 2026. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-twisted-history-of-dcs-injustice-universe\" data-value=\"the-twisted-history-of-dcs-injustice-universe\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>\u201cDC, this isn&#8217;t the time for you to play games and release an Injustice clone. You know what we want,\u201d one commenter wrote on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould have been the next NetherRealm game,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wario64\/status\/2079291494553534623?s=20\">said on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others can\u2019t help but reference Multiversus, the multi-property platform fighter published by Warner Bros. Games that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/multiversus-to-shut-down-when-season-5-concludes-in-may\">famously delisted just one year<\/a> after its release. (It\u2019s worth noting that DCKO is both developed and self-published by Drop Fake,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans have been waiting a long time for a new Injustice game, but it looks like they\u2019ll have to wait a little longer after DC revealed a totally different fighting game\u2026 on mobile. DCKO is an upcoming free-to-play mobile fighting game developed by Drop Fake, Inc., an independent game studio based in British Columbia. Featuring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":86248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86250,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86246\/revisions\/86250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}