Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, his love of digging into game lore and history naturally led to a passion for sharing these ideas with others through writing. He has been writing about games professionally for over 4 years, with bylines as a Contributing Writer at High Ground Gaming for 2 years before joining GameRant. He also has a background in video game studies with a degree from Washington State University, where he also won the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Award in 2021 for his writing and design work on the game Quest for Arete.
Xbox Game Pass has revealed a second wave of new games being added to the service this month. While Xbox Game Pass has already seen exciting additions to its catalog in June 2026, including The Elder Scrolls Online and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, even more fantastic titles are about to become available for subscribers to enjoy. Fans of both single-player and co-op games will have a lot to look forward to throughout the rest of the month and into early July.
Xbox Game Pass is Adding 7 More Games in the Second Half of June
- Junkster (Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, Handheld, and PC) – June 16
- Call of Duty: Vanguard (Cloud, Console, and PC) – June 17
- EA Sports FC 26 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – June 18
- Abyssus (Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, and PC) – June 25
- RV There Yet? (Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, and PC) – June 30
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – July 2
- Winds of Arcana: Ruination (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC) – July 6
Available today as a day-one Xbox Game Pass release is Junkster, a charming 3D platformer about a small robot named UM-13 and his quest to navigate an alien junkyard in order to repair his ship and recover his cargo. For fans of multiplayer shooters, tomorrow, June 17, Call of Duty: Vanguard joins the Xbox Game Pass library. Originally released in 2021, Call of Duty: Vanguard takes the series back to World War 2 with the franchise’s staple PvP multiplayer, campaign, and Zombies modes, serving as the perfect way to tide players over until Modern Warfare 4 releases later this year.
