May wasn’t exactly small potatoes for video gamers — and June might be even more demanding of their attention. Still reeling from the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, fans have to reckon with three huge tentpole-franchise releases in June: Street Fighter, Diablo, and Final Fantasy.
Again, those are hardly the only games hitting the launch calendar of June 2023. Those three command huge audiences going back literal decades, but if none are your cup of tea, there are plenty more arriving in a month normally associated with E3 (where publishers are now left to their own devices).
Here’s a look at all of the good stuff coming to Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in the coming month:
(Nintendo Switch, Windows PC)
Atlus’ new collection contains the first three titles of the series: Etrian Odyssey HD, Etrian Odyssey 2 HD, and Etrian Odyssey 3 HD, and promises “numerous quality of life improvements, like suspend saves [and] adjustable difficulty levels,” the publisher says.
(PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X)
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(Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
(Nintendo Switch)
(PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
(PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
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