Nestled in the heart of Europe, Czechoslovakia is a democratic bulwark, surrounded by autocratic neighbors. Rich in resources, industry and population, it is also an early target for aggression. Chart a new course for Czechoslovakia in the face of these threats in Peace for Our Time, a new Focus Pack for Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s grand strategic wargame about the conflict and politics of the Second World War. Created in collaboration with veteran modders Logan ‘Spicy Alfredo’ Calkins, Abbus Fung and Marijn ‘marijn211’ Vroegh, Peace for Our Time is the first Focus Pack to include new National Focus Trees and unique mechanics, presenting a new challenge to experienced desktop generals. It will be released next week, on 22 April.

Highlights of the Focus Pack Peace for Our Time include:

• Democratic National Focus Path: Surrounded by non-democratic nations, safeguard Czechoslovakia’s freedom by forging your own faction, leading a government in exile or pursuing independence as Slovakia.
• Communist National Focus Path: Spark a socialist revolution to replace the failed middle path, joining the Comintern or uniting the region under your own federation; whether through radical struggle or moderate reform.
• Monarchist and Fascist National Focus Paths: Rally nationalist forces to establish a new kingdom of Bohemia or embrace military dictatorship, expand your influence through allies or subjects, and decide whether to entrench authoritarianism or return to democracy once the crisis has passed.
• Manage your arms industry, become an industrial powerhouse, and shape conflicts across the globe by exporting weapons abroad.
• Engage with the Divided Nation mechanic to solve the challenges of governing a divided democracy.
• Army Readiness Balance of Power forces you to ensure you have the support of the military.
• New Art and Music, including two new music tracks, 3D depictions of the historical Prague Castle and Bojnice Castle, new equipment graphics and new focus icons and character portraits.

The Hearts of Iron IV: Peace for Our Time Focus Pack will be available on 22 April 2026 on Steam for the suggested retail price of $5.99 / £4.99 /€5.99.

Dive deeper into the world of UBOAT, a World War II submarine simulation game with the new Type IX: Distant Coasts DLC on Steam! This expansion brings the long-awaited Type IX U-boat to the game, opening up new strategic possibilities and historical theaters of war.

To access the new DLC:

1. Please click with a right mouse button on UBOAT in your Steam library and enter properties from the context menu.

2. Once there, select the tab titled “Betas” and enter this password: tfbaADngquY84n.

3. Ensure that your currently selected beta is called “2026.1-alpha”.

After doing these steps, you will have access to the version 2026.1 and the DLC.

UBOAT Type IX: Distant Coasts DLC Key Features:

• Three playable Type IX variants: From early long-range patrol boats to the advanced IXC/40 with enhanced survivability
• New historical campaigns: Operate in distant regions like Penang or the South Atlantic in authentic WWII scenarios
• Unique missions: Including Operation Kiebitz, daring rescues, and long-range wolfpack operations
• Expanded operational depth: Explore new strategies with extended range and diverse conning tower configurations
• Custom conning tower emblems: Personalize your U-boat with iconic symbols like a clover, crocodile, or tiger

Manage your aircraft, build your reputation, and carve your path through the skies in a rich, retro-inspired aviation world.

Blending accessible flying mechanics with deeper management systems, Legendary Pilots invites players to step into a vibrant aviation world where every flight is just one part of a bigger journey. From planning routes and transporting passengers to maintaining aircraft and climbing the ranks of a competitive airline ecosystem, the game offers a refreshing take on the flight sim genre-one that prioritizes experience, progression, and personality over strict realism.

Legendary Pilots Career Flight Sim Announcement Trailer

With its distinctive retro-inspired visuals and a focus on turboprops and regional jets, Legendary Pilots delivers a grounded yet stylised aviation fantasy. It’s a world where smart decisions, efficient flying, and long-term planning matter just as much as what happens in the cockpit.

Whether flying short regional hops or building a reputation across a living network of AI-controlled air traffic and rival companies, players are constantly working toward the next milestone in their career.

Key Features

• A Pilot’s Career, Fully Realized
  Progress from humble beginnings to established professional, unlocking new opportunities, aircraft, and challenges along the way.
• Fly Turbo-Props and Regional Jets
  Take control of a carefully selected lineup of aircraft tailored to regional aviation, each offering a distinct flying experience.
• Accessible Yet Rewarding Flight Model
  Enjoy simplified navigation using systems like the radio compass, designed to keep flying engaging without overwhelming complexity.
• Own, Manage, and Maintain Your Fleet
  Purchase aircraft, keep them in top condition, and make strategic decisions that impact performance and profitability.
• Dynamic Airline Economy
  Compete within a living world of AI airlines, where rankings shift and success depends on efficiency, planning, and smart route management.
• Routes, Passengers, and Crew
  Manage your operations beyond the cockpit, balancing logistics, staffing, and passenger needs.
• AI Air Traffic and Immersive World
  Share the skies with other aircraft and navigate a detailed fictional setting that brings each flight to life.
• Distinctive Retro-Inspired Visual Style
  A unique blend of pixel-art aesthetics and stylised 3D presentation, evoking classic flight sims with a modern twist.

Legendary Pilots launches on Steam on April 21, 2026.

Players can wishlist now and prepare for takeoff into a career where every decision counts-and every flight tells a story.

Kraken Studios, known for its WarPlan series and Kingdom Dungeon and Hero, is excited to announce that Total Victory: World Conflict 1939-1945 will soon be available on Steam. A new demo will be released on April 16th.

Total Victory Trailer

Take Your Place in a Global War from 1939 to 1945
Drawing inspiration from classic wargames like ADG’s World in Flames, SPI’s ETO, and others, Total Victory is the grand strategy wargame that enthusiasts have been eagerly waiting for. It combines moderate complexity and divisional-level strategy with historically inspired units and production. Play as any major nation from the Axis, Allies, or Comintern during World War II. Manage production, military units, and prominent historical commanders. Lead land, naval, and air forces against rival nations.

Real World Map with Tile System
Total Victory features a modified Mercator map with colorful silhouettes highlighting military units unique to each nation. A clutter-free interface lets you focus on strategy, not menus. Land units include infantry, armor, paratroopers, marines, and many more types. Air units include a variety of plane model types. Naval units include individual capital ships and groups of other units. Most military units have a unique set of attributes. Monitor your nation’s overall manpower and oil, as they could be crucial to the war’s outcome. Ore feeds the industry that makes war materials like weapons, tanks, planes, and support units. The automated supply system allows players to focus on play rather than micromanagement. Explore over twenty technological advances that unlock new units, combat enhancements, and intelligence.

Classic, Strategy-First Gameplay
Total Victory provides a challenging yet practical experience, led by an easy-to-use interface. Unlike the micromanagement found in other popular RTS games, Total Victory reduces the need for endless menu-clicking and unit upkeep with its automatic reinforcement mechanic, allowing you to focus more on making strategic decisions. It provides multiple ways to play: exchanging your latest moves through PBEM, pass-and-play on a single PC against a friend in Hotseat mode, or play solo against an AI opponent with adjustable difficulty settings.

New Demo Coming APRIL 16TH
Players interested in trying out Total Victory will be able to get a glimpse of the game when the Steam demo launches on April 16th. In the demo, players can get a feel for the land and air mechanics and play as Germany in the Blitzkrieg East Scenario, set in June-September 1941.

Game Features

• Play as any major global superpower during World War II
• Modified Mercator map with a tile-based hex system, easy to read at a glance
• Research 20+ technology slots for new combat units, modifiers, and intelligence
• Multiple play modes, including PBEM, Hotseat, and AI opposition

Wishlist Total Victory: World Conflict 1939-1945 on Steam to receive all future updates.

Wargaming today announced that World of Tanks: HEAT, its new standalone free-to-play tactical vehicle shooter, will enter closed beta from April 16 through April 20 across PC (Steam and Wargaming Game Center), Steam Deck, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nvidia GeForce NOW.

Watch the closed beta trailer HERE.

Set in an alternate post WWII era, HEAT reimagines armored combat, bringing the franchise’s signature gameplay to more dynamic and fast-paced battlefields. Players step into the role of elite Agents with unique, game-changing abilities and pilot a roster of experimental vehicles. Each tank brings its own tactical strengths, enhanced by deep customization with advanced weapon systems, armor modules, and visual upgrades.

During the closed beta, players will be able to explore a diverse lineup of tanks and Agents, supporting different playstyles across three distinct roles: Defender, Assault, and Marksman. The beta will feature four PvP modes across eight maps:

• Hardpoint (5v5): Capture, defend, and hold a rolling series of dynamically changing bases.
• Control (5v5): Capture and hold a single zone.
• Kill Confirmed (5v5): Destroy enemies and grab their tokens, or grab your allies’ dropped tokens to deny the other team points.
• Conquest (10v10): Large teams and multiple capture zones make for a sprawling, dynamic war zone.
  Powered by Wargaming’s new proprietary engine, World of Tanks: HEAT will launch simultaneously across PC (Wargaming Game Center and Steam), PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam Deck and Nvidia GeForce NOW, with full cross-platform play and cross-progression.

Players can sign up for the closed beta HERE.

Wishlist the game today on Steam!

Wargaming, the developer and publisher of the leading naval MMO World of Warships, is excited to announce that World of Warships: Legends previously on console and mobile will be arriving on PC on May 4th. Additionally, Update 15.3 has arrived in World of Warships today with fresh content, including the brand new Tier IX German Destroyer ZH-1 introduced to the Dockyard, offering solid defensive firepower. Players can also work their way through two new themed event passes packed with rewards, prepare for the eighth wave of Azur Lane featuring new ships and Commanders, and look forward to a host of in-game improvements.

World of Warships: Legends on PC

World of Warships: Legends is sailing onto PC on May 4th 2026, available to players from 11:30 AM UTC, and bringing the same action-packed naval experience from consoles and mobile to Steam, Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass. Players will be able to start fresh, or log in with an existing console or mobile account to continue their journey right where they left off with full cross-progression.

German destroyer ZH-1 comes to the Dockyard

Tier IX German destroyer ZH-1 has arrived in the Dockyard, ready to be built across 20 phases of construction. Based on the historic ship of the same name that served off the coast of France during the Second World War, ZH-1 comes equipped with multiple 120mm gun turrets, powerful airstrike capabilities, and versatile torpedoes, allowing her to devastate unsuspecting foes from both above and below.

Golden Week and Battle of the Coral Sea Event Passes

Update 15.3 also brings players double the fun with not one, but two standalone event passes filled with themed rewards across 15 levels. Players can unlock secondary progression paths via doubloons, as well as extra levels upon completion of both paths for additional rewards.

The Golden Week Event Pass includes themed permanent camouflages, Commander Masaru Tadamatsu, Japanese Tier VI Premium battleship Ise, a new Golden Tribute enemy destruction effect, and more. For the Battle of the Coral Sea Event Pass, players can look forward to notable historical Commanders that took part in the titular battle – Commanders Robert Dixon and Shigekazu Shimazaki – as well as American Tier VI premium destroyer Monaghan, a new permanent camouflage, and more across the progression lines.

World of Warships will also be available on the Xbox Game Pass starting April 9th. A combat mission chain offering several containers, 1000 doubloons and eco-bonuses will prepare the new captains to meet their foes on the virtual seas.

Azur Lane Returns to World of Warships alongside in-game improvements

Wave 8 of Azur Lane arrives in World of Warships, bringing more vibrant content to the high seas. Available from April 29 until June 17, players can dive into a wide array of new additions, including six iconic themed vessels, themed skins, new Commanders ready to take charge in battle, and commemorative flags for players to showcase their allegiance. Rounding out the update are a handful of other improvements and gameplay tweaks. Victory Points now show up in both the in-battle and post-battle interfaces, providing insight into player’s actions and their team contribution. Changes have also been implemented across the Domination game mode, the Mountain Range map, and Aircraft Carriers to improve the overall game experience.

Find out more about World of Warships: Legends on its official website.

More information about the 15.3 update is available on the World of Warships official website.

With ‘No Man Left Behind’, the Commandos squad steps back into the shadows. The new Commandos: Origins DLC deploys on April 28th, 2026, on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation®4|5.

This operation closes a critical gap in the main campaign: deep behind enemy lines in the Auvergne region of occupied France, the Green Beret is captured by German forces during a mission to extract an allied informant who possesses high-value intelligence. Players experience this story in the first mission firsthand as Jack O’Hara, the Green Beret.

In three additional new missions, Thomas “the Sapper” Hancock, Francis T. “the Sniper” Woolridge, and Rene “the Spy” Duchamp make their way across heavily fortified mountain facilities, dense forests, and a tightly secured construction site housing to rescue the Green Beret. On their mission, the Commandos must uncover crucial clues, sabotage a prototype of a deadly German superweapon, and piece together the intelligence needed to complete their objective.

The newly introduced Radio Operator represents a major tactical threat: eliminating this enemy type can trigger an instant global alarm. To maintain operational secrecy, the Commandos must locate and disable signal enhancers, severing enemy communications before striking. Precision, timing, and discipline are mandatory.

Features

• The missing link: In Commandos: Origins DLC ‘No Man Left Behind’, you finally discover the events that led to the Green Beret’s capture, triggering the search for him and the rescue mission of the main campaign.
• Embark on four new missions to uncover crucial information leading to the prototype of a new German superweapon, being built in the seclusion of the French mountains.
• Your search for both information and your captured companion will take you across a huge, picturesque map of occupied French territory in the Auvergne, spanning nighttime forest operations and heavily guarded military structures scattered across the mountainous countryside.
• Encounter new characters, including the informant and fellow prisoners, and prepare to face a new enemy unit: the radio operator, who will call for reinforcements and trigger a global alarm if his line of communication is not cut before he is eliminated.

Matrix Games today announce the release of Command: Modern Operations – Tides of War, a new campaign DLC available now.

Set in the tense waters of the South China Sea, Tides of War places players in command of ASEAN forces as a regional crisis escalates toward open conflict. What begins as a multinational military exercise quickly deteriorates when Chinese maritime militia and coast guard vessels interfere with operations, creating the conditions for a broader confrontation across the theater.

The campaign includes six tightly focused scenarios, each representing up to 24 hours of operations. Players will navigate a structured escalation ladder, moving from gray-zone incidents and non-kinetic encounters to submarine interdiction, precision strikes, and ultimately large-scale air and naval engagements.

A key feature of Tides of War is its Continuous Loss System, where losses and damage persist between scenarios. Decisions made early in the campaign can have significant consequences later, making force preservation and operational planning critical.

Rather than focusing on individual platforms, the campaign emphasizes escalation management, joint operations, and long-term force preservation, offering Command players an operational perspective on crisis escalation in one of the world’s most sensitive maritime regions.

Tides of War is available now and requires the base game Command: Modern Operations to play.

Burghers and Bombards, the second DLC for Field of Glory: Kingdoms welcomes players in the new Advanced Economy, where the rise of the Burgher class, the growth of guilds, and the burden of inflation redefine how wealth and power interact. Gamers will experience the pivotal change of the war: the Age of Gunpowder, as bombards, handgunners, and cannon-armed galleys forever change the fate of empires.

Field of Glory: Kingdoms – Burghers and Bombards Gameplay video

What’s new:

• Two new Campaigns: The Late Campaign (1223-1470) where players take command of the Mongols after the victory over the Kievan Rus’, and The Mega Campaign (1054-1470), where players will experience transformations, expansion and changes from the Great Schism throughout four centuries of history.
• The Burgher Class: A new social force that generates wealth but challenges royal and noble power.
• Inflation: Prosperity has a price. Manage inflation or watch your realm’s coffers crumble.
• Guilds: Tier II and III buildings that unlock bonuses and unique events as urban industries grow.
• Gunpowder Mechanics: building new facilities to produce gunpowder, recruiting handgunners and bombards, modernizing fortresses to accommodate the new artillery.

And more. Discover all the new features in Field of Glory: Kingdom – Burghers and Bombards, out now on Steam.

The new DLC Baltic Battalion is out now and available for free.

You can download it today and immediately access all the new content included in this release, expanding your experience with everything listed below:

• New army specialization: Baltic Battalion, including more than 30 new units and many more customization options.
• New map: Kadaga Military base
• New solo+coop scenario “Welcome to Kadaga” that can be re-played in 6 different ways
• New Baltic Battalion AI preset for skirmish
• New profile customization
• 12 new music compositions have been added to the Original Sound Track (also available on streaming platforms)

To celebrate the launch, the Spring Sale discount will remain active until April 6th. Broken Arrow will be available at a 15% discount until then on Steam.

Broken Arrow: Baltic Battalion Cinematic Release Trailer

You can also enjoy the original soundtrack here and immerse yourself even further in the game’s atmosphere.

This DLC arrives alongside a range of highly anticipated and requested updates, including new features, improvements, gameplay changes, balance adjustments and bug fixes. Highlights include the addition of a Streamer Mode, a reduction in overall game size, performance optimizations, the new emergency airdrop feature and more enhancements designed to improve your overall experience.