The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct airs Sunday, September 28 at 9 am Pacific (12 pm Eastern, 5 pm BST, 1 am JST) with never-before-seen trailers, announcements, and updates from our reporter on the ground at Tokyo Game Show.
You can watch the stream live in the player above or on Twitch and Steam, but if years of social media conditioning has led you to prefer scrolling through a reverse-chronological feed of brief written comments, I've got you covered. I'll be sharing all the news from PCGS Tokyo Direct as it happens in the liveblog below.
Without further ado, the latest from Tokyo:
Yakuza Kiwami 3 and some love for the PC
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama has so many nice things to say about PC gaming in this interview that I might have to follow the lead of the many Yakuza-heads on the PC Gamer team and get into them myself.
It's interesting to hear that the founding idea of the series was "Japanese people making a game for Japanese people"—Yokoyama says it came as a surprise to him that the games were embraced globally.
Billie Bust Up
"Billie Bust Up" sounds like a phrase improv performers would use to warm-up. Billie Bust Up Billie Bust Up Billie Bust Up. And is that an axolotl named Aristotle? Axolotl named Aristotle axolotl named Aristotle axolotl named Aristotle. (I'll let Issy actually tell you what the game's about.)
Awaysis
This trailer from 17-Bit Studios and Cult Games directs us to "taste the Awaysis," but what is the Awaysis? I couldn't tell ya! Justin's got more on it here.
Enter the Moomin
I guess I missed Moomin growing up in the US, because I had to look them up when Snufkin Melody of Moominvalley was announced, and then again this year when I heard about Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth. They are very popular Finnish trolls, I've gathered—there's a theme park in Japan, even! Anyway, the game looks lovely.
It's Wes!
PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon has spent the past week at Tokyo Game Show and will be popping up throughout the Tokyo Direct with reports from the show floor. (Last I talked to him, he was telling me about a vomiting vampire in the 'anime GTA' game he played.)
Get 'em, Minotaur
If you ask me, Theseus should take his spool of thread and go see if he can work out whether or not his ship is the same ship it used to be, and leave the Minotaur alone. Go slap around ol' King Minos if you're mad about the human sacrifices! Glad to see the Minotaur take charge here.
Hey, it's little Alex Horne!
This genuinely startled me. Even the US side of PC Gamer has been whiling away the 2020s watching the UK's Taskmaster, and I wasn't prepared for a Horne appearance here. He's voicing a character in upcoming adventure game Earth Must Die alongside a bunch of other British talent—you can see the trailer on YouTube.
It's time! …for Blood!
Woo! The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct is underway with hosts Elle Osili Wood (from TV) and Midas (from PC Gamer), who's queued up the first world premiere of the show from Tokyo gaming mecca Akihabara.
I'm proud to be a part of a publication that's happy to kick off a showcase with 1997 DOS shooter Blood. Actually, it's Nightdive's remaster, Blood: Fresh Supply, which is itself is getting an upgrade with Blood: Refreshed Supply—more details here.
The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct starts in one hour!
Just 60 minutes to go until the first PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct! Along with the usual world premiere trailers you expect from our June and December shows, this stream will include reports from ground at Tokyo Game Show, where PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon has spent the past week speaking to developers. The show will be a little over an hour long.
What's been going on at TGS so far
The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct starts soon! While we wait, here are some of the headlines that have come out of this year's Tokyo Game Show already:
- I played China's 'anime GTA' Ananta and I wasn't surprised to find Spider-Man swinging and Batman punching, but I wasn't quite ready for the vampire who vomits rainbows
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 gets Tokyo Game Show sign of life: 'Since we called the first instalment Vol. 1, it’s only natural to expect a second one'
- Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is mondo-huge, Playground's 'biggest map yet' and also its 'most full'
- New Virtua Fighter presentation takes a lot of time to say not very much aside from a short teaser and a brand-new battle system
