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Tokyo Game Show is online for the second year in a row

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TOKYO, September 30. / TASS /. One of the world's largest international gaming industry exhibitions, the Tokyo Game Show (TGS), opened online for the second year in a row on Thursday due to the spread of the coronavirus.

According to the organizers, more than 350 companies from the gaming and entertainment industry from 37 countries of the world, including Japan, China, the United States and Russia, will take part in the four-day exhibition. The online exhibition program is divided into 46 different events, which will be broadcast live on popular networking platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Twitch.

One of the most anticipated events of this year at TGS will be a panel discussion hosted by the largest and oldest Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, featuring the creator of the Japanese RPG series Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi. The topic of discussion will be the current state of role-playing games and the potential for their further development.

Also, the attention of gamers will be riveted on the live broadcast on October 3, organized within the framework of TGS by the Chinese company miHoYo – the creator of a game for various platforms called Genshin Impact, which these days celebrates its first anniversary of the release. The celebration was overshadowed by a conflict that erupted between the creators of the game and its community directly over the anniversary itself – many players felt that gifts and holiday events from the developers were too small. The players' dissatisfaction resulted in a massive underestimation of the rating of the game by users on Google Play and the App Store – at one point the average rating of the game sank from 4.7 to 2, and hashtags on this topic have been in the tops of Twitter trends for the third day. It is expected that during the event at TGS miHoYo will talk about the upcoming updates for Genshin Impact, but players expect that the developers will also touch on the topic of the conflict that has occurred.

Exhibition of gaming entertainment Tokyo Game Show has been held since 1996, annually more than 250 thousand people from all over the world became its guests.

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