Persona 4 Revival joins Famitsu's 40th anniversary demos
Kadokawa Game Linkage's birthday festival fills Bellesalle Akihabara on 7 November 2026, and Persona 4 Revival is on a playable line-up taken from Tokyo Game Show 2026.
Famitsu is throwing itself a 40th birthday party and has added another playable game to the guest list. Kadokawa Game Linkage said on 30 September that Persona 4 Revival joins the latest-games trial corner at the Famitsu 40th Anniversary Fest, which takes over Bellesalle Akihabara on 7 November 2026.
The demo line-up confirmed so far also carries Super Danganronpa 2×2 and Final Fantasy VII Revelation. Kadokawa says the playable content matches what each title showed at Tokyo Game Show 2026, and that places are allocated by advance lottery, with entry details promised for 9 October.
What else is on the first floor
The ground-floor programme is free to enter. It includes a workshop in which visitors try the sub-editing that goes into a Weekly Famitsu article, a photo spot buried in 「ガバス」, the magazine's printed promotional tickets, an exhibition covering 40 years of Famitsu and the anniversary congratulation ads, a capsule-toy corner and merchandise built on an anniversary illustration.
Four game characters are turning up for photographs as well: Astro from Astro Bot, Sonic from the Sonic series, March 7th from Honkai: Star Rail and Monokuma from the Danganronpa series.
Stages, signings and the small print
Lottery applications for the stage events and signing sessions opened on 30 September. The stage day runs from a 10:00 opening through to a closing segment at 17:50, takes in a Super Danganronpa 2×2 session and a stage for Masahiro Sakurai's new book, and every session is due to stream free on the Famitsu TUBE YouTube channel.
Only lottery winners can watch from the floor, with a maximum of 204 winners per session, and the merchandise area is set to run on advance lottery rather than an open queue.
Our opinion
The word free is doing a lot of work in this announcement. Entry to the Bellesalle Akihabara floor costs nothing, but the demos, the goods and the stage seats all run through advance lotteries, so the day itself is really decided weeks earlier by an application form. That is standard practice for Japanese publisher events with more demand than floor space, and it is a fair trade only if the odds are legible. Kadokawa's promise to publish both lottery details on 9 October is the date worth diarising, because until then nobody knows whether they are attending a festival or entering a raffle.