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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
System Era Softworks and Devolver Digital launch STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions into Early Access on June 11, 2026 - a crossplay co-op sandbox of expeditions to the planet Tephra, on Game Pass day one across PC, Xbox, PS5 and Switch 2 for $29.99.
The medieval survival town-builder Bellwright hit PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on June 9, 2026, adding the new 10 sq km Halmare Isles map, fresh quests and a Loyalty and Faction system. It remains in Early Access.
Square Enix gave Kingdom Hearts IV a major new gameplay trailer at the June 9 Nintendo Direct, showing Sora battling a giant Heartless in the rain-soaked, Shibuya-like city of Quadratum. The game will launch simultaneously on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with native Switch 2 collections of the older titles arriving October 8, 2026.
Frontier Developments revealed first gameplay for Planet Zoo 2 at the PC Gaming Show 2026, adding fully aquatic and flying species with custom aquariums and aviaries, and set an October 13, 2026 launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Game PassGears of War: E-Day kicked off the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 with an extended gameplay reveal and a release date: October 6, 2026, as an Xbox console exclusive on Xbox Series X|S and PC, day one on Game Pass. The Coalition and People Can Fly's prequel is set 14 years before the original, following a younger Marcus Fenix through the first Emergence Day.
Game PassinXile Entertainment showed a new 'The Heist' trailer for its steampunk time-travel RPG Clockwork Revolution at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026. The Xbox console exclusive is set for 2027 on Xbox Series X|S and PC, day one on Game Pass.
Game PassSerenity Forge and Studio Meadowflower revealed Vivarium at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, a peaceful, softly-styled game launching in 2027 on Xbox, PC, Steam and Epic, with Game Pass and Play Anywhere support.
Microsoft and Asobo Studio announced World Update 22 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, the latest free update adding enhanced scenery and regional detail for virtual pilots on Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Game PassOne More Level, the Ghostrunner studio, and publisher Lyrical Games gave Valor Mortis a release-date trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026. The first-person soulslike set in an undead-plagued 19th-century Europe arrives Fall 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, day one on Game Pass.
Mojang revealed Minecraft Dungeons II at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 - a sequel to the blocky co-op dungeon-crawler action-RPG, with up to four-player co-op and a September 29 launch.
Bandai Namco revealed GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT at Summer Game Fest 2026, a high-octane third-person action game from Bandai Namco Studios set in an all-new Gundam timeline. Players pilot the high-mobility Gundam Helix as ace RE-X against an unknown threat, launching in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Chennai-based Ayelet Studio released a gameplay reveal trailer for Son of Thanjai, a cinematic action-adventure set in 11th-century South India. Playing as Chola prince Vinnendiran, you wield the flexible Surul Vaal whip-sword in fluid combat inspired by the martial art Kalaripayattu. It's coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Capcom revealed Street Fighter 6's Year 4 at Summer Game Fest 2026, headlined by Final Fantasy VII's Tifa Lockhart as a guest fighter. The season - the first with no returning classics - adds newcomers Yasmine (Summer 2026) and Arjun (Autumn 2026), Tifa in early 2027, and World Tour rival Bosch in Spring 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
HoYoverse's Zenless Zone Zero Version 3.0, 'A Sleepwalker's Confession,' arrives June 17, 2026 with the game's first new combat attribute - Wind - alongside the new district of Roscaelifer and Agents Velina, Pyrois (free) and Norma. The update also marks ZZZ's Steam debut, going live the same day across iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Twelve years after the original, Creative Assembly and SEGA used Summer Game Fest 2026 to reveal Alien: Isolation 2. The 'Last Chance' trailer takes the horror planetside to the storm-battered colony of Kurosaki Station with a new protagonist, a more aggressive Xenomorph and Unreal Engine 5, launching on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC.
Capcom revealed Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance at Summer Game Fest 2026 - a massive paid expansion, comparable in scale to Iceborne and Sunbreak, that takes hunters to a new region of floating sky islands. It adds Master Rank content, a new Boost Bracer mechanic and the return of Elder Dragons like Kushala Daora and the colossal Lao-Shan Lung, launching in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Milestone revealed Hot Wheels Infinite Rush at Summer Game Fest 2026 - the first open-world game in the franchise, with four explorable islands, 150-plus collectible vehicles across four classes, full cross-play and four-player split-screen. It launches September 24, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC.
Nacon and Cyanide Studio's Tour de France 2026 is out now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. The latest entry in the long-running cycling sim debuts in-race rain that forces mid-stage strategy changes, an expanded calendar with two new licensed races, and overhauled, more tactical team time trials.
Aurogon Shanghai's Summer Game Fest 2026 combat gameplay trailer for Swords of Legends - the official sequel to the Gujian series - shows a boss fight against the stage-magic Master of Cantrip and debuts the new Spirit Companion system led by the spectral Ox. The Unreal Engine 5 action-RPG is confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Kuro Games' open-world gacha action-RPG Wuthering Waves launches on Xbox Series X|S on July 27, 2026, free-to-play with full feature parity, Xbox Play Anywhere and cloud support, plus in-game perks for Xbox Game Pass members - completing a platform lineup that already spans PC, Mac, PS5, iOS and Android.
Square Enix closed Summer Game Fest 2026 by revealing Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the third and final chapter of the Remake trilogy, launching Spring 2027 across PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Cid and Vincent become full party members, the Highwind enables open-world flight, and a new Job Class feature joins combat.
Capcom revealed Resident Evil Veronica at Summer Game Fest 2026, an RE Engine remake of the 2000 classic Code: Veronica starring Claire Redfield. Featuring overhauled visuals and smarter, more aggressive enemy AI, it launches in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC.
Pocketpair announced at Summer Game Fest 2026 that Palworld leaves early access for its 1.0 release on July 10, with a debut cinematic trailer teasing the long-locked World Tree, new Pals, new regions and a fresh threat across Xbox, PS5 and PC.
Fuse Games and Secret Mode revealed a story trailer for Star Wars: Galactic Racer at Summer Game Fest, showing single-player and multiplayer podracing and confirming an October 6, 2026 launch on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco's Summer Game Fest trailer for dark-fantasy vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker surprised with modern-day framing and a fresh look at Coen's quest for revenge, ahead of its September 3 release on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
2K and Hangar 13 announced Man of Honor, a story expansion for Mafia: The Old Country, at Summer Game Fest. Arriving August 14, 2026 on PS5, PC and Xbox Series X|S, it adds two chapters set in 1905 Sicily and crosses Enzo's path with Mafia's Ennio Salieri.
SEGA and RGG Studio's Summer Game Fest trailer for Stranger Than Heaven reveals Tupac Shakur as the character Amaru (with his estate's blessing and no AI), a deep supporting cast, a Snoop Dogg theme contribution, and a January 15, 2027 release.
Jagex used Summer Game Fest to confirm that survival-crafting breakout RuneScape: Dragonwilds leaves Early Access with a full 1.0 launch on September 15, 2026, simultaneously across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC — the first RuneScape game on PlayStation in 25 years.
Section 9 Interactive's atmospheric top-down sci-fi survival horror End of Abyss got a release date trailer at Summer Game Fest, locking in October 1, 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Epic Games Store).
Ubisoft's Summer Game Fest trailer for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced shows in-engine cinematics and gameplay ahead of its July 9, 2026 launch, with the latest Anvil engine, ray tracing, rebuilt combat and new content for Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet.
At Summer Game Fest, That's No Moon — a studio of ex-Naughty Dog and Call of Duty veterans — revealed its debut, Crossfire: a single-player, story-driven reimagining of Smilegate's multiplayer franchise built around a dynamic Adaptive Cover system. Coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
genDESIGN, the studio led by ICO and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda, revealed gen ATLAS at Summer Game Fest: an open-world action-adventure about a lone robot on a wasteland planet. Epic Games Publishing is backing it for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
THQ Nordic and Alkimia Interactive's ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake of the 2001 RPG Gothic is out now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, marked by a new release trailer during Summer Game Fest weekend.
Whiteboard Games announced Tempus Vitae at the Latin American Games Showcase 2026: a time-travel metroidvania FPS in which a stranded astronaut hops between the station Theia's doomed 2185 and 2385 timelines. Coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2027.
Coffeenauts revealed Ghostless at the Latin American Games Showcase 2026: a 2.5D action-adventure and colony-building hybrid set in a post-apocalyptic world where a rogue Soviet AI sends android infiltrators disguised as humans. Coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Anima Project's dual-protagonist action-RPG, set in the Anima: Beyond Fantasy universe, will hit PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2027. The new Release Window Trailer follows knight Soren and the enigmatic Noein into the Abyss.
Playground Games' Japan-set racer has blown past 6 million players in seven days, hitting 270,000+ concurrent on Steam and a 91 on OpenCritic. A PS5 version is still due later in 2026.