The ultimate Festival of Warhammer video games returned today for its 9^th year – Warhammer Skulls just aired, bringing news for Xbox Warhammer games, and huge discounts.

Hosted once again by huge Warhammer fan, Rahul Kohli, returning for the third year in a row, the Skulls Showcase kicks off an exciting week of world premieres, as well as new announcements and content reveals for Xbox fans. Alongside this celebration, players can expect huge deals and discounts on the Xbox and Microsoft Store, with up to 85% off savings during the event.

Let’s take a closer look at the announcements, reveals, and updates included in the Warhammer Skulls Festival:

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine – Master Crafted Edition was announced and will be coming to Xbox and PC on June 10.  This is an uprezzed 4k version of the game with improved character models, modernized control schemes and upgraded audio. Relive the original adventure on Xbox Series X|S. Also available Day One on Game Pass!

That wasn’t all though, Focus Entertainment and Saber gave us our first look at Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s new Siege mode and revealed it will be coming on June 26.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has announced a new playable Class DLC will be coming to Xbox and PC on June 23.  That’s right, the Adepus Arbites becomes a playable character…. ably assisted by a playable Cyber Mastiff which you can send to disable priority targets and provide vital support to your strike team. Don’t forget the Darktide base game is available on Game Pass, and it is also available as part of Xbox Free Play Days this week!

Xbox fans will remember Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2 was announced at last year’s Skulls Event. This year, we got a new trailer featuring the Leagues of Votann and a first look at gameplay. Whether this faction will be allies or foes to the player is yet to be seen, but this will be the first time the faction has appeared in a Warhammer 40,000 video game. In celebration, you can play the first Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus as part of this week’s Free Play Days.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader announced its second DLC is coming on June 24.  Lex Imperialis sees the Arbitrators join the game and a new companion, locations and archetypes. Owlcat also announced there will be a Season Pass 2 starting during Skulls and have teased there will be another 2 DLCs to follow as part of that.  Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is available to buy on Xbox and PC and is also available on Xbox Game Pass. It also features as part of the Free Play Days during Skulls.

The bombastic boomer shooter Boltgun returns to Xbox in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, including Warhammer Skulls host, Rahul Kohli, resuming his role as veteran Sternguard Malum Caedo, which was announced today. Wishlist now!

The showcase also revealed trailers for Season 9 of Blood Bowl 3, which showed off the new Khorne Team (coming June 10), new content for Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector available now,and a tease that the Black Legion will be joining the fight later this year.  Vermintide 2 saw the release of the 3^rd new level of Verminous Dreams, a free Update. Vermintide 2 is also available on Xbox Game Pass now as part of Skulls. 

Over on the Microsoft store, Total War: Warhammer 3 gave us a glimpse at the free next legendary lord in their new Tides of Torment DLC content coming to PC soon.

The fun doesn’t stop there though – remember – Darktide, Rogue Trader and Vermintide are all on Xbox Game Pass. Game Pass subscribers can also use Xbox Free Play Days to try out multiple Warhammer games between May 22-26, including Blood Bowl 3, Rogue Trader, Chaos Gate Daemon Hunters, Mechanicus, Shootas Blood and Teef, Darktide, Chaosbane Slayer Edition and Inquisitor Martyr.  You can also check out Dynamic Backgrounds for Boltgun, Space Marine 2 and Rogue Trader!

Now, that’s a lot of Warhammer to get your teeth stuck into! And that’s just some highlights of the awesome Warhammer content coming soon. Don’t forget, you can check it all out, and grab some great deals, on the dedicated Warhammer Skulls Festival landing page over on the Microsoft Store. Thanks for reading!