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Dragon Ball XenoVerse 3
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This caught my attention because a tiny, easily overlooked move by a regional publisher just turned a months‑old tease into a likely sequel confirmation. Bandai Namco Southeast Asia briefly created a YouTube playlist titled “Dragon Ball XenoVerse 3” that contained the AGE 1000 reveal trailer from January 25, 2026 – then pulled it down after fans and leakers like Wario64 spotted it. That deletion makes the slip feel accidental, and suddenly the mysterious “AGE 1000” project looks a lot less mysterious.
On or around February 22, Bandai Namco Southeast Asia briefly published a playlist labeled “Dragon Ball XenoVerse 3” that only contained the AGE 1000 teaser trailer. Fans and industry leakers – notably Wario64 — flagged the playlist before it was removed. The internet did what it does best: screenshots and clips spread fast, and several Dragon Ball YouTubers and creators amplified the find as confirmation rather than rumor.
The AGE 1000 teaser shown at Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri on January 25 leaned heavily into familiar Xenoverse tropes: a customizable, avatar‑style protagonist (this one designed by Akira Toriyama with striking white hair that turns gold when Super Saiyan), a far‑future “age 1000” timeline, and time‑travel or timeline‑repair hints. Xenoverse is built around player created characters, online missions and storylines that hop through timelines — those beats map neatly onto what we saw in the teaser.
Add in reports that the project has been in development for six to seven years with Toriyama deeply involved, plus a modest 2027 release window pushed earlier in documents, and the scale and ambition described match what one would expect from a Xenoverse‑style endeavour rather than a small mobile spin‑off.
For players, the leak does two things: it clears the fog around AGE 1000 and ramps expectations that we’re getting a full‑fledged Xenoverse sequel with online systems and custom character gameplay. That’s welcome news for anyone still salty about Xenoverse 2’s unresolved thread — a new entry could close story gaps and refresh the series’ multiplayer formula.
But there are reasons to keep a healthy dose of skepticism. Regional channel slips can be genuine mistakes, but sometimes marketing teams use “accidental” teases to stoke chatter. The speedy deletion leans toward an honest error, yet nothing from Bandai Namco’s global press channels confirms the title yet. Until we get the official stage at Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour, treat this as very strong circumstantial evidence rather than a formal announcement.
Community reaction has already locked onto Xenoverse 3 as the likeliest identity for AGE 1000, and analysts familiar with the franchise point to Xenoverse 2’s sales and unresolved narrative threads as logical reasons Bandai Namco would green‑light a major sequel. If this is real, it’s one of those leaks that doesn’t spoil the party so much as wave the confetti early.
A brief, now‑deleted Bandai Namco Southeast Asia YouTube playlist titled “Dragon Ball XenoVerse 3” included the AGE 1000 trailer — strongly suggesting AGE 1000 is indeed Xenoverse 3. It’s not official until the company says so, but the match between the teaser’s setup and Xenoverse’s DNA makes this the most plausible explanation heading into Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026.
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