On Thursday, Tokyo Game Show (TGS) — the most important in-person occasion devoted to video games in Japan — marks its thirtieth anniversary.
It’s a outstanding milestone not solely when it comes to longevity. Within the age of streaming, in-person gaming exhibits like TGS are not any certain factor. In 2023, the Los Angeles-based Digital Leisure Expo (as soon as one of many world’s large three gaming exhibits alongside Germany’s Gamescom and TGS) introduced it was packing up for good, leaving TGS trying like a specimen of an more and more endangered species.
And but, towards all odds, the commerce present at Chiba’s Makuhari Messe retains rising. This yr’s thirtieth anniversary version expands from 4 days to 5 and boasts a document variety of exhibitors.