The Warhammer Skulls Festival begins June 3rd

Announcing Warhammer Skulls, the annual festival of Warhammer video games, which launches for the first time this Thursday for Xbox and Windows PC and runs for 7 days! To kick off the release, a special Xbox-specific Warhammer Skulls Showcase will be streamed live Xbox’s Twitch and Youtube on June 3 at 6:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PST with world premieres, revelations, and announcements from leading studios and franchises.

In addition to the Warhammer Skulls Showcase, the event also features new content and updates on fans’ favorite games, and offers week-long discounts and promotions.

Skulls is going to happen in a big way on Xbox. Along with the brand new releases from Age of Sigmar: Storm Bottom

(out now) and Necromunda: Rented weapon (out now), Talisman: Digital edition will start at the beginning of the event on Xbox and there will also be a celebration to take over the Free Play Days on the weekend – with Inquisitor martyr, Chaosbane, and Mechanicus all of them are available for testing free of charge on the weekend. In addition, World of Warships: Legends will have the 40,000 themed ships in-game for Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S players.

You can also look forward to major updates from Vermin 2 (available with Xbox Game Pass), with the release of their free Chaos desert Expansion of the game on June 3rd.

Like Xbox, Windows PC is massive into Skulls with no fewer than three new Skulls games and recently released titles featuring Horus Heresy: Legions, Warhammer battle cards

, and Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower. World of tanks: lightning and World of warships also participate with their 40,000 in-game content. You can find everything from Thursday on the special Warhammer Skulls page on Windows PC.

Be sure to join us on the Xbox Twitch Channel and Xbox YouTube, and right back here on Xbox Wire for all the news, excitement, and revelations this Thursday at 6pm BST / 10am PST!

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