Xbox @ Tokyo Game Show 2026: broadcast, games and how to watch
Xbox will host a Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast on 17 September, with Minecraft Dungeons II and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 playable on the show floor.
Xbox is bringing its Tokyo Game Show plans into focus, with a dedicated broadcast, a show-floor presence and a FanFest event marking the company’s 25th year of play and more than two decades in Japan.
What Xbox is bringing to Tokyo Game Show
Xbox says its Tokyo Game Show 2026 Broadcast will take place on Thursday, 17 September at 7:00pm JST, which is 11:00am in the UK. The show will be hosted by Misuzu Araki and will include Tokyo Game Show-exclusive content, new gameplay and moments built for the event.
The show floor will feature Minecraft Dungeons II, giving visitors in Japan their first hands-on opportunity to play the co-operative dungeon-crawler. Xbox says the game will launch on 29 September 2026 and will be available day one through Game Pass.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will also appear on the show floor with partner Happinet. Visitors will be able to try its multiplayer ahead of the worldwide launch on 23 October 2026. Xbox says the title will also feature at Xbox FanFest Tokyo in Hall 6, booth 06-N4.
How to watch
The broadcast will stream through the official Tokyo Game Show YouTube channel and Xbox’s Japanese and US social channels. Xbox lists 4K viewing through Xbox Japan, plus a global YouTube feed with American Sign Language and audio-description support. Twitch will carry the global stream as well.
Xbox also says additional language support will be added after the broadcast, including German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese. The audio will mix Japanese and English, so captions may be useful even if your preferred interface language is available.
Our opinion
This is a sensible showcase rather than a desperate attempt to pretend every announcement is a megaton. Xbox has a useful mix here: a new hands-on look at Minecraft Dungeons II, a blockbuster multiplayer test for Call of Duty and a broadcast aimed at the Japanese audience rather than merely translated for it. The real question is what else Xbox is keeping behind the curtain. If the stream has meaningful reveals instead of three trailers wearing a party hat, it could be one of the more useful Tokyo Game Show broadcasts this year.
Sources
Sources: Xbox Wire; Tokyo Game Show official site; official Xbox, Xbox Japan and Twitch channels linked below.