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Clash Royale's Season 84 'Stone Cold' adds the long-awaited Princess Evolution with slowing Ice Arrows and a frozen zone, plus a new free-to-unlock Hero, Tombstone, whose 6-Elixir Regal Revival summons a skeleton-spawning Tomb Queen.
Firefly Studios' castle sim returns: a free, playable Stronghold 4 demo goes live for Steam Next Fest on June 23. The next mainline entry is a cinematic narrative prequel following shepherd-turned-leader Penryn of Wethel, with deeper siegecraft, extensive castle customization, and a Steam Early Access launch - a 22-mission campaign, skirmish and sandbox - planned for later in 2026.
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.
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.
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.
Supercell's June 2026 Clash of Clans update is here, led by the new Hero Journey progression system, the Town Hall 16 Ruin Witch troop and her Ruin Knights, the targeting-focused Angry Spell, +5 hero levels, a 4x battle speed option and a shared Clan Capital Treasury.
Creative Assembly and SEGA showed new in-development gameplay for Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 at the PC Gaming Show 2026 - Astra Militarum versus Orks - and confirmed a closed beta with sign-ups open now.
SUPER AC's stealth-tactics game PROHIBEAST launches June 3, 2026 on PC via Steam, casting players as Eliot Ness against Al Capone's black market in a noir, anthropomorphic Prohibition-era Chicago where meat itself is illegal.
Hooded Horse and Tropico 6 studio Limbic Entertainment have locked in July 31, 2026 as the launch date for pirate city-builder Corsair Cove and dropped the demo on Steam today at 7AM PDT / 4PM CEST. The reveal trailer pitches a verticality-first builder with 50-plus goods, a turn-based naval combat layer, and a confirmed skip past early access into a full launch on Steam, Epic, Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass.
Bulwark Studios' Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II launched today on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S for $39.99, anchoring the 10th-anniversary Warhammer Skulls 2026 broadcast hosted by Alanah Pearce. Both the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Necrons are fully playable this time, four distinct leaders shape each faction, and early PC reviews call out a locked 60 FPS at 4K with no patch-day fires - rare for a 2026 Warhammer 40K launch.
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will feature heavy destructible terrain, with forests, walls, and fortifications all destroyable via bombardment. Battle product owner Dave Petry walked through the system on the May 1 Show & Tell stream — and explained why cover-cracking ordnance changes the rhythm of every battle in the 40K universe.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era launches into Early Access on April 30 with six factions, ranked multiplayer, and day-one PC Game Pass availability — the first new entry in the legendary strategy franchise in over a decade.
Clash of Clans' April 2026 update delivers the Sky Wagon siege machine, Logger guardian, Electro Fangs equipment, a ranked mode overhaul with new Legend tiers, and increased army capacity to 352.
Titanium Court, winner of the IGF Seumas McNally Grand Prize, launches today on Steam with its genre-defying blend of match-3, tower defense, and roguelike mechanics.
Sintopia, a darkly comedic management sim where you run Hell as a corporate middle manager, has launched on Steam from developer Piraknights Games and publisher Team17, with a 15% launch discount through April 30.