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Arc System Works used San Diego Comic-Con to reveal Phoenix Cyclops, drawing on the Avengers vs. X-Men Phoenix Five arc, as the first Year 1 DLC fighter for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. The base game launches August 6 on PS5 and PC, and an open beta is live right now through July 26.
2K has unveiled its NBA 2K27 cover lineup: Victor Wembanyama fronts the Standard Edition, Caitlin Clark becomes the first WNBA player on her own global cover on the Deluxe Edition, and Derrick Rose headlines the Ultra Edition. The game launches September 4 across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Switch 2.
Joe Ziegler, the public face of Bungie's Marathon reboot, confirmed July 17 was his last day at the studio after nearly four years. Del Chafe III steps up as game director alongside creative director Julia Nardin, as the team pushes on following a launch that fell well short of Bungie's sales expectations.
HoYoverse detailed ZZZ's second-anniversary update in a July 17 Special Program. Version 3.1 'The Long Goodbye' arrives July 29 with new S-Rank Agents Remielle Dan and Sigrid, a permanent new mode, a free limited S-Rank of your choice, and a same-day launch on Xbox PC.
Ubisoft's remake of the beloved 2013 pirate adventure is a runaway success: 2 million copies sold on day one, more than 3 million in its first week, a record concurrent-player peak on Steam, and the best reviews an Assassin's Creed has earned since the original Black Flag.
A year into its life, the Switch 2 is outrunning the PS5 quarter-to-quarter and dominating the US market - even as Sony's console keeps a commanding lifetime lead. And a Switch 2 price hike is now on the horizon.
Pocketpair's monster-collecting phenomenon has finally exited Early Access. Palworld 1.0 launched July 10 as a free update with a 27-page changelog - adding the long-teased World Tree, the Sky Islands, 20-plus new Pals, water-based building, reworked tower bosses, and a breeding-defining new system called Genetic Recombination.
Game PassThe full remake of the 2001 original lands July 28 on Xbox, PC and — for the first time in franchise history — PlayStation 5, packing a brand-new three-mission Master Chief arc and day-one Game Pass access.
Honkai: Star Rail Version 4.4 'In Ravages Does the Whistle Sound' launches July 15, 2026 on iOS, Android, PC and PS5. It debuts the new 5-star Fire Erudition unit Himeko - Nova, continues the Fate/stay night crossover with Rin Tohsaka and Gilgamesh from July 24, and stacks six reruns alongside the Planarcadia story finale against Lord Ravager Asat Pramad.
Genshin Impact's Version 6.7 'Luna VIII' is live, bringing back Fatui Harbinger Sandrone as a 5-star Cryo Claymore, with Columbina and a Raiden Shogun rerun across a summer of events.
Palworld's 1.0 release lands July 10 on PC, PS5, Xbox and Game Pass, nearly doubling the map with a World Tree and Sky Islands, adding PvP and its biggest wave of new Pals - free for owners.
Ubisoft's ground-up Black Flag remake, rebuilt on the latest Anvil engine with ray tracing, dynamic weather and new pirate storylines, launches July 9, 2026 on PS5, Xbox and PC.
Moon Studios confirmed at Sony's State of Play that its brutal, hand-painted action RPG No Rest for the Wicked leaves early access for Version 1.0 in October 2026, launching first on PC and PS5 with Xbox and Switch 2 to follow. The full release adds 60+ hours of content, new bosses, a horde mode and a completely reimagined class system - and anyone who buys on PC before July 10 gets the exclusive Founder's Pack.
Sony has revealed the PlayStation Plus Essential Monthly Games for July 2026: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Cross-Gen Bundle), the acclaimed action-RPG CrossCode, and the co-op roguelite For the King II. All three are available to claim from July 7 and stay in your library while your subscription is active.
Koei Tecmo and Omega Force host the Next Scouting Report broadcast for Attack on Titan 3 today, July 1 - the deep dive expected to finally reveal a release date, show off the overhauled ODM combat and confirm that the Final Season and Rumbling are playable for the first time.
Season Meltdown is now live across PC, console and mobile - Delta Force's largest update yet brings the AZ3 Nuclear Plant Operations map with a multi-ending mechanic, control Operator N-TWO, the Coliseum Warfare map, two new weapons and a Rainbow Six Siege crossover.
The hand-drawn 2D fighter based on Avatar: The Last Airbender runs a closed beta from July 2-5 for anyone who pre-orders, ahead of a July 23 launch with 12 fighters, rollback netcode and full crossplay.
Maxis pushed a June 30 patch to The Sims 4 packing 80+ bug fixes and quality-of-life changes: fewer repetitive phone calls, per-pack festival notification toggles, aligned windows and doors, reduced Mac save corruption and clearer Marketplace pricing.
A free July 9 update brings playable Terriermon Assistant, Photo Mode and graphics-mode options to Digimon Story: Time Stranger on all platforms, one day before the 450-Digimon RPG debuts on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 with dedicated Quality and Performance modes.
Ubisoft's team-based Star Wars reinvention of Monopoly launches June 30, 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch. It features 28 characters with unique abilities, online 2v2 and 3v3 modes, and a $29.99 price tag.
Zenless Zone Zero Version 3.1 lands July 29, 2026 for the game's second anniversary, adding two S-Rank Agents: the mysterious Void Hunter Remielle - whose attribute matches no known element - and ice spear-and-shield user Sigrid de L'Azur.
Game PassFuncom's open-world survival RPG Dune: Awakening arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 22, 2026, alongside a cross-platform update adding a full single-player mode, PvE access to the Deep Desert, and a free Polar Cap ice map. It joins Game Pass day one.
Bandai Namco debuted the first Tekken 8 gameplay trailer for Bob at EVO 2026, showing off his skateboard entrance and belly-bounce counter. He launches August 24 (August 19 for Season 3 Pass owners), with Roger Jr. teased for a later reveal.
Kuro Games detailed Wuthering Waves Version 3.5, launching July 10. The update returns to Huanglong with a new area, Mengzhou: Land of Xuanfang, new Resonators including Yangyang: Xuanling and Suisui, a Reverb Convene rerun banner, and free codes.
Project Cloud Games and Perp Games confirmed The Relic: First Guardian arrives July 31 on PS5 and PC, with Xbox Series and Switch 2 to follow. The Soulslike packs 70-plus bosses, five weapon types, twelve skill trees, and a stamina system reserved for defense.
The 3v3 superhero tag fighter begins its first full Season on June 30, adding Year 1 Pass fighters Universa and The Immortal, a new Endless Arcade mode, and a comprehensive balance patch. Angstrom Levy was teased for Fall 2026.
id Software dates the Revelations story expansion for July 7, 2026 - new levels, demons, and the throwable Chain Spear - while a free Update 4 brings advanced PSSR to PS5 Pro at a locked 60fps.
Stubby Games and Playstack confirm the fast, fully destructible roguelite shooter VOID/BREAKER is heading to PlayStation 5 in 2026, with a new demo and a roadmap toward 1.0.
Marvel Snap's June 30 season, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, brings a double-moving season pass card that pumps Power across the board, a Super Premium Mary Jane reward, and a Spidey Birthday event.
Rockstar Games opened Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders on June 25, 2026 with two editions - Standard ($79.99) and Ultimate ($99.99) - and a shared Vintage Vice City Pack bonus, ahead of the November 19 launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
EVO 2026 opens in Las Vegas on June 26 with 5,774 entrants across 12 games. Riot's 2XKO storms into the Arena Finals in its Vegas debut, Marvel Tokon offers playable Magneto demos ahead of its August 6 launch, and Capcom is widely expected to hold its biggest Street Fighter 6 news for Sunday's finals.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is playable at EVO 2026, and the demo build includes newly revealed Knights of Doom villain Magneto. Arc System Works and PlayStation Studios' 4v4 tag fighter launches on PS5 and PC on August 6 with a 20-character roster, cross-play, and a motion-comic Episode Mode.
Riot Games' free-to-play 2v2 fighter 2XKO has earned a spot in the EVO 2026 Arena Finals in its Las Vegas debut, drawing 1,080 entrants chasing a $135K+ pot. Newest champions Senna and Thresh are tournament-legal, and top names like SonicFox headline a scene that has matured remarkably fast since the game's January launch.
Team Ninja's Dead or Alive 6: Last Round arrives June 25, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam. The current-gen re-release bundles 29 fighters, a new photo mode and a free Core Fighters tier, with DLC newcomer Minato and a KOF collab on the way.
Deltarune Chapter 5: The Field of Pink and Gold unlocks worldwide on June 24, 2026 as a free update on Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, PC and Mac - and Toby Fox says Chapter 6 is already ahead of schedule.
Empulse, the 6v6 movement shooter from Splitgate studio 1047 Games, hits Steam Early Access on June 24, 2026 on PC, PS5 and Xbox with cross-play, contested map-spawned mechs, and no store, battle pass or paid cosmetics.
Honkai: Star Rail 4.3 Phase 2 goes live June 24, 2026 with reruns for Ice Remembrance unit Cyrene and Physical Remembrance unit Phainon, running through July 14 on iOS, Android, PC and PS5.
Arrowhead's Machinery of Oppression 6.3.0 update for Helldivers 2 is live on PS5, Xbox and PC, packing hundreds of balance changes across weapons, enemies and stratagems alongside a new biome, a Control Center terminal, fresh Galactic Campaigns and a reworked training program.
The second Frostpunk 2 expansion, Breach of Trust, arrives June 23 on PC, PS5 and Xbox. It swaps the series' signature cold for a volcanic crisis in New Edinburgh, adding two maps, five factions, a new 'Vote of Trust' mechanic and Tremor and Volcano Night systems.
Cygames released a free, save-carryover demo for Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok on June 18 across PS5, PS4, Switch 2 and PC, previewing the expansion's new Conflux solo mode, bosses and master traits before its July 9 launch.
Game PassBellring Games' extraction ARPG Mistfall Hunter blew past 10,000 concurrent Steam players in its open beta (June 14–22) on PC, Xbox and PS5, debuting the Withered Knight class and Hallowgrove map ahead of a July 29 launch that hits Game Pass day one.
Season 20: Custom Seas launched June 18, 2026, giving Sea of Thieves players a full level editor to build and share their own game modes - from Rowboat Royale to flame-cannon deathmatch - plus new cinematic camera tools, free for all owners on PC, Xbox and PS5.
Monument of Triumph, Destiny 2's final major content update, has arrived - reviving the Sparrow Racing League, adding the Pantheon boss-rush and new Distortions, refocusing the Director and Portal, and dropping Legendary Marks and Exotic overhauls as Bungie ends active development to focus on Marathon.
EA Sports UFC 6 launches June 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with new Flow State combat, Markerless Capture animation, Pereira and Holloway cover athletes, and The Legacy and Hall of Legends modes. A PC version is in development but not part of the launch.
Capcom's Pragmata update 1.220 adds the demo-only Scribble Suit to the full game for free on PS5, Xbox, Switch 2 and PC, alongside an official music video for the theme 'Memories Are You.'
Granzella and NIS America's ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake of the R-Type Tactics spin-offs launched June 18 across six platforms, finally bringing R-Type Tactics II west and adding a new Cosmos campaign. Early reviews praise its scale and visuals while flagging punishing difficulty and a missing tutorial.
Just 26 days after the acclaimed bullet-hell shooter Luna Abyss launched to an 81 Metacritic and a day-one Game Pass deal, developer Kwalee Labs has laid off its entire nine-person team. CEO Hollie Emery called the decision 'completely outside of our control.' The studio, formerly Bonsai Collective, spent seven years building the game.
Polychroma Games and Maximum Entertainment have released Afterimages, a two-chapter story expansion for the acclaimed narrative adventure Until Then, on June 18 for PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox. It follows Sofia and Mark through grief, memory and new beginnings, adds tarot and baking mini-games, and precedes a September physical edition.
Square Enix's HD-2D style goes fully real-time on June 18 in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales - a new action RPG from the Octopath Traveler team that follows a boy and his fairy across a thousand-year, four-age journey. Here is everything launching this week.
Mintrocket's In the Jungle expansion for Dave the Diver lands June 18, swapping the Blue Hole for a freshwater lake and a hidden village - and bringing full isometric movement, a new Bancho Grill and roughly ten hours of fresh content.
Triple Espresso's football tycoon Copa City launches June 16 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, putting you in charge of staging matches for real clubs across Berlin, Warsaw and Rio de Janeiro.
R-Type's two cult turn-based strategy spin-offs return on June 18 in R-Type Tactics I II Cosmos, with NIS America bringing the long-Japan-only sequel West across PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and Switch 2.
1047 Games, the Splitgate studio, brings its Titanfall-inspired 6v6 movement shooter to Steam Next Fest with a free demo - wall-running, grapples, Holojumps and mechs included - ahead of a June 24 Early Access launch that promises no microtransactions.
The frantic co-op railway builder has left Early Access. Unrailed 2: Back on Track launched into 1.0 on June 11 across PC, Switch, Switch 2 and PS5, expanding the cult original with a 3D world, new biomes, deeper progression and cross-platform play for .99.
Fatshark's co-op shooter gets its first playable non-human class on June 23. The Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii Alpha Primus brings arc weapons, a core power system and deep customization, alongside a free update adding the Atoma at Dawn Expedition and two new enemy types.
Revealed at Summer Game Fest 2026, the Mortal Shell II open beta is live worldwide on Steam, offering the opening three hours, a hunt for the Shell Tiel the Acolyte, the Magdalena boss fight, and a Flayed Harbinger reward ahead of the sequel's 2026 launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox.
After a decade of fan demand and licensing limbo, the Friday the 13th icon arrives in Dead by Daylight on June 16, 2026 as The Slasher - the game's 10th-anniversary killer, wielding Omnipresent Evil and Improvised Carnage.
Owlcat Games' third Rogue Trader expansion launched June 11, 2026, pulling the von Valancius dynasty into Trazyn the Infinite's legendary vault with a new companion, an implants augmentation system and roughly 15 hours of Necron-focused story.
In a post-reveal Q&A, producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi confirmed Capcom will make some story changes to Resident Evil Veronica so it fits cleanly into the modern remake timeline - sitting just after RE2 and RE3 and leading into RE4 - with the acclaimed RE2 remake team developing the 2027 release.
Marvel Rivals Season 8.5 launches today with Cyclops, a 275 HP Duelist whose optic beams ricochet off walls and chain between enemies, an Optic Fury ultimate that removes his visor for a devastating line blast, and a new Blast Slash team-up that supercharges Wolverine's claws.