The biggest video games to be released in June 2024

June is a quiet month for games. For nearly a quarter of a century, game journalists have traveled to Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo and split their time between crawling around the crowded, loud, show floor and ducking into the often frigid meeting rooms for a half-height water bottle. and meeting with developers.

But with E3 gone and now in the rearview mirror, Summer Games Fest has taken its place as a less formal, less centralized and more alternative version of that previous event. Because these events are a month so packed with gaming news, it's often slow for actual game releases.

This month, though, there's a big release you won't want to miss, with Elden Ring's long-awaited expansion and some smaller games worth checking out. Here's what we're looking forward to playing in June.

Note: All games listed below are traditional or “Web2” video games. As far as we know it does not have any crypto or blockchain elements.

Lot 2: The final shape

Release Date: June 4 Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Destiny 2's ongoing story has been in the works for years up to this point. The final shape will bring the ongoing Destiny story to a close, open up Bungie's slate to start a new story, or even announce Destiny 3. (Don't worry, we don't know what you don't know).

Along with ending the current storyline, this expansion introduces the Prismatic subclass, which allows you to combine Arc, Solar, Void, Static, and Strand powers into the perfect subclass of your own design.

Star Wars: Predators

Release Date: June 4 Platforms: Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch

While Star Wars Outlaws – set for release later this summer – is getting all the attention right now, it's not the only Star Wars game on the horizon. June brings us Star Wars: Predator.

Get ready for video game buzzwords: this is a free-to-play, player-versus-player arena game, featuring new characters from familiar molds. Character types include Wookie, Trandoshan, and Rodian. There are bounty hunters, Jedi, and rogues.

By choosing from a diverse roster of characters, you'll engage in modes you know and love from other games. There's a squad deathmatch-style mode called Squad Brawl, a Domination-style Power Control, and an away-style game called Capture the Flag or Trophy Chess. Again, this game is free to play, and it's on all popular mobile platforms, so it's worth a look if you're itching for a Star Wars experience right now.

Killer clones from space: the game

Release Date: June 4 Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

Horror movies are the perfect subject for multiplayer, where some players are powerful, seemingly immortal, and others are hapless victims who can't escape. The formula works in Dead by Daylight and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , but no one in 2010 has ever seen it. He never made money on the 1988 cult classic horror film “Killing Clowns From Outer Space.”

In this adaptation, three players take control of one of five unique clowns—a clown-like alien race that comes to Earth to prey on humans—while seven others play as residents of Crescent Cove, and must fend off the clowns and them. Funny scary weapons. Movies include popcorn bazookas, cotton candy coconuts, sensational balloon animals, shrinking shadow puppets, and more. In zombie movies, they aim for the head. In clown movies, you aim for the nose.

It still activates the deep.

Release Date: June 18 Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

In the year Set in December 1975, Glaswegian electrician Kaz McCleary is trapped in a gas station when disaster strikes on the coast of Scotland. The player, as McCleary, must survive not only the dangerous weather and the decline of the gas station, but also the pursuit of a mysterious monster, now on the equipment. With Still Wakes the Deep, developer The Chinese Room returns to narrative horror. This studio has previously worked on Amnesia: Machine for Pigs, Dear Esther and Everybody's Rapture.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Release Date: June 21 Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Just as one Elden Ring player takes down the Fire Giant, other games are also awaiting the release of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Elden Ring was one of the most reviewed and best selling games of 2022, so this expansion is sure to be huge.

This expansion gives you a huge new area to explore, new weapons and equipment to use, and new enemies and bosses to repeatedly die and then defeat. The new area itself, the Land of Shadows, is said to be as large as Limgrave, the original area of ​​the Elden Ring. It's not that big compared to the overall Elden Ring map—but the Elden Ring map is huge, so expect a lot to do.

Luigi's Mansion 2 HD

Release Date: June 27 Platforms: Nintendo Switch

For our American readers, you may remember that Luigi's Mansion 2 is the title of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, which was released in the United States in 2013. A Nintendo 3DS game for the Switch with new visuals, otherwise largely leaving the game out. The game offers cooperative multiplayer for up to four players.

Edited by Andrew Hayward.