Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 Starts April 18 With AGE 1000 Details and FighterZ Masters Showdown

Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026 runs Saturday April 18 and Sunday April 19 at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles. Admission is free, and every stage event streams live on the official YouTube channel. Now in its sixth year, this is the one weekend Bandai Namco hands fans the full calendar's worth of announcements across every active Dragon Ball game, and the schedule is unusually dense this time around.

When and Where to Tune In

Doors open at 9:00 AM on both days. Day One kicks off at 11:00 AM PDT with a screening of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, then moves into a special producer match for Dragon Ball Gekishin Squadra at 1:00 PM PDT. Day Two is where the big news lands. The FighterZ Masters Showdown opening matches fire up at 9:00 AM PDT, the Dragon Ball Super Special Panel hits at 1:15 PM PDT, the Battle Hour Times news block runs from 1:35 PM PDT, and the Masters Showdown finals close things out at 2:30 PM PDT.

Every Game On Stage

The participating title list is the most complete it has ever been: Dragon Ball FighterZ, Sparking! ZERO, Xenoverse 2, Dokkan Battle, Legends, Gekishin Squadra, Super Card Game Fusion World, Super Card Game Masters, and the new AGE 1000 project. If it has Dragon Ball in the title and a dev team behind it, it shows up somewhere on this floor.

The biggest question mark of the weekend is AGE 1000, the new game project Bandai Namco announced back at Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri in late January 2026. Everyone got a teaser trailer and a promise that more was coming at Battle Hour. This is the moment that more shows up.

What We Know Going In

Bandai Namco has described AGE 1000 as a brand-new Dragon Ball world shaped by Akira Toriyama, with original characters and a never-before-seen lead designed by Toriyama himself. Release is targeted for 2027. Beyond that, nothing official about genre, platforms, or story scope has been confirmed. Fans online have been guessing for months that this could be the spiritual follow-up to Xenoverse, but Bandai Namco has deliberately kept the lid on it so the Battle Hour Times segment at 1:35 PM PDT has real fireworks.

The Other Announcements To Watch

Battle Hour Times is also where Sparking! ZERO, Xenoverse 2, Dokkan Battle, Legends, and Gekishin Squadra get their spotlight slots. Sparking! ZERO is still riding the wave of the Hero of Justice DLC pack that landed on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 in February 2026, so fresh content for later in the year is almost certainly teased here. Gekishin Squadra is the newcomer on the Battle Hour stage, and putting its producer on Day One signals Bandai Namco wants this smartphone title taken seriously alongside the console heavy hitters.

For the competitive side of the room, the Dragon Ball FighterZ Masters Showdown is the weekend's centerpiece. Eight players will fight it out for the title. Six earned their spots through results at previous tournaments, one is the EVO France runner-up, and one slot is filled via on-site qualifiers.

GO1 Is Back in the Chair

The marquee name is Goichi Kishida, better known as GO1, the 2019 FighterZ World Tour champion, who is invited back as a featured player. FighterZ has had a weird few years, with the community oscillating between treating it as finally dead and celebrating every time it claws back, so putting GO1 on this stage in 2026 is a real statement that Bandai Namco still sees this game as the flagship for competitive Dragon Ball.

The Card Games Are Settling Titles Too

Quieter but just as important for their respective scenes, the Super Card Game Masters 2025 to 2026 Grand Finals and the Super Card Game Fusion World 2025 to 2026 Grand Finals, covering both the physical and digital versions, all crown champions this weekend. If you follow the Dragon Ball TCG scene at all, this is the weekend your brackets stop being theoretical. The full stream schedule and links live on the official Battle Hour site.