June 2026 Is Stacked and Nobody's Talking About It

Somewhere between a Star Fox remake, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on Switch 2, a train you can kickflip, and Netflix dumping the entire Rocky franchise into your queue, June 2026 quietly became one of the most packed months of the year. Not packed in the way E3 used to be, with trailers and promises. Packed with actual stuff you can play, watch, and download right now, or within the next four weeks.

Let's start with the Switch 2, because Nintendo's new console is having a month that would make most holiday lineups jealous. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth arrives on June 3, barely five months after Remake landed on the platform. Square Enix is clearly trying to get Switch 2 players caught up before the third and final chapter gets announced, and honestly, Rebirth is the stronger game. Its open-world sections and absurd number of minigames made it a favourite on PS5, and if the port holds up anything like Remake did, this is the best RPG on the console right now.

Then on June 26, Star Fox lands. Not a sequel, not a spin-off, but a full remake of Star Fox 64 built from the ground up for Switch 2. According to Polygon's June roundup, it features a complete orchestral re-recording of the soundtrack, which you can already preview on Nintendo Music. I've been waiting years for Nintendo to do something meaningful with Fox McCloud, and a lavish remake of one of the N64's best games is exactly the right call. Whether it actually elevates Star Fox back into Nintendo's top tier of franchises is another question, but the ambition is clearly there.

Filling out the rest of the Switch 2 calendar: To a T, Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi's surreal game about a teen stuck in a T-pose, arrives June 11. Denshattack!, the post-apocalyptic train game where you kickflip and grind rails like it's Tony Hawk, launches June 17. Square Enix's HD-2D action-RPG The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales hits June 18. And Wanderstop, the burnout-recovery cozy game from the now-shuttered Ivy Road, comes to Switch 2 on June 23. Six releases in one month for a console that launched this year. I can't remember the last time a Nintendo platform had this kind of early momentum.

PS Plus Stays Rough

Over on PlayStation, the mood is considerably less cheerful. June's PS Plus Essential lineup is Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Grounded, and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. A Push Square poll with over 2,100 votes found that 44% of respondents called it "a crap selection", with another 23% rating the games "disappointing." Only 14% were mostly or very happy. That's the second month in a row where nearly half the voters have rejected the lineup outright.

I actually think Darktide is a decent pick. It had a rough launch on PS5 back in 2024, but Fatshark has put in serious work since then, overhauling progression and mission structure. If you have a group to play with, it's one of the better co-op shooters available. The problem is that all three June games lean multiplayer, and PS Plus subscribers skew heavily toward single-player experiences. Three multiplayer-focused titles in one month feels like a misread of the audience rather than a bad selection on individual merit.

Meanwhile, the PS4 continues its slow funeral march. Warzone's PS4 version gets delisted on June 4, with its in-game store shutting down on June 25 and online services expected to end around November once Modern Warfare 4's first season kicks off. Battlefield Hardline's PS4 servers go offline June 22. Horizon Chase Turbo gets pulled from the PS Store on June 1 following Epic Games layoffs. The console is 13 years old at this point, and these delistings are inevitable, but watching Warzone specifically get phased out in stages feels like watching someone dismantle a building floor by floor.

Streaming Overload

If you need a break from all of this, Netflix and Disney+ are both going heavy in June. Netflix is adding what feels like every wedding movie ever made on June 1, from My Best Friend's Wedding to Four Weddings and a Funeral, alongside the full Rocky and Creed franchises. Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 hits Netflix on June 25. Poor Things arrives June 7. The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act drops June 19.

Disney+ has Avatar: Fire and Ash as its headline streaming premiere, plus a Hamilton 10th anniversary documentary called A Spark Into A Flame on June 16. The service will also be livestreaming the Bonnaroo music festival across four days starting June 11. And in a deep cut I wasn't expecting, there's a never-before-seen director's cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe landing June 11.

June is one of those months where there's too much to keep track of. Between Switch 2 building real library depth, PS Plus continuing to frustrate its subscribers, PS4 losing more ground, and streaming services competing for your evenings, the only scarce resource is time. If you're only picking one thing this month, Star Fox on June 26 is the one I'd circle. Nintendo hasn't given that franchise a real spotlight in over a decade, and a ground-up remake with a full orchestral score is the kind of treatment that suggests they're finally taking it seriously again.