Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 3 dated for 2027 after a 10-year return

I’ve got the source facts and constraints. I’m rewriting this as a native-sounding English gaming-news piece, preserving every required fact, the three images in order, and the exact source entities like XboxSeriesX and AGE1000.Bandai Namco Entertainment dropped the first trailer for Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero on June 23, confirming a 2027 release on PS5, XboxSeriesX|S, and Steam. The sequel pushes the story into AGE1000, a future era never used in the original work, with every character design created by Akira Toriyama.

That matters because the Sparking! series has always sold itself on custom characters and time travel, with players protecting Dragon Ball history across eras. This time, though, the series is clearly reaching for something bigger. AGE1000 is a genuinely new setting for Dragon Ball games, which means fresh threats, new relationships, and a different kind of narrative setup. Toriyama’s direct involvement in the character designs also gives the whole premise a stronger sense of continuity for long-time fans.

The trailer also points to West City as the story’s main hub, and its scale suggests a larger stage for the campaign. The formation of the GS team aka the Super Saiyan team, hints that group dynamics will be central to how the story unfolds. One small but notable detail is Bulma still looking young in the distant future, which fits Dragon Ball’s famously tangled relationship with time while leaving room for a more interesting character arc.

The biggest gameplay addition is the Soul Shift battle system. It lets players borrow the power of warriors from across the series, which should push combat beyond simple stat growth and into more tactical builds. Given how much freedom Sparking! has always offered in character customization, Soul Shift could end up working like a class-style layer on top of that system. If it lands well, it should add real replay value, especially for players who like digging into mechanics.

Separately, the official Dragon Ball website published an overseas expo hands-on report that goes into the upgraded combat controls and the Soul Shift system in more detail. The game is still scheduled for 2027, but the exact release date has not been announced. For players on PC, the confirmed Steam version keeps access relatively straightforward, and core fans of the ten-years-later sequel should keep an eye out for Chinese localization news next.