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The Joy of Making Video Gaming a Family Affair

Commenter Madammina‘s tale of playing through Kingdom Hearts with her little brother reminds us how much fun it is to play video games with our loved ones in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. As very few of you know, I’ve been playing Kingdom Hearts with my baby brother. He wanted to play Kingdom Hearts 2…

By Mike Fahey Published May 25, 2011

Ryu, Ken, Yoshi, Sheik And Some Creepers Star In Convention Fighter II

Remember, remember, the Lara Croft in poor weather, and the girl who loved Aion a lot. I see no reason why Star Wars or Creepers should ever be forgot. There’s been plenty of great cosplay going on over the past week or so, some of it in the US, some of it in Australia, all…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2011

Final Fantasy XIII Is Epic Enough For Sony’s Platinum Prize

Tokyo-based Sony Computer Entertainment held its annual PlayStation Awards in which the company gives, wait for it, awards to, you guessed it, PlayStation games. The awards are given based on how titles released in Japan on PlayStation consoles did domestically. Final Fantasy XIII took the Platinum Prize for shipping between 1 and 2 million copies.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 3, 2010

The Next Kingdom Hearts Is One Of 2011’s First Notable Games

Eleven days into 2011, we get a new Kingdom Hearts that is unusual even by that series’ standards. On January 11 in North America, Square-Enix will release Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, a Nintendo DS sequel to Kingdom Hearts II that involves fighting through a digital “datascape” of the diary Jiminy Cricket kept during the first Kingdom…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 15, 2010

Actor Glenn Shadix Dead At 58, We Blame The MTV Video Games

Glenn Shadix might be more famous for his role as Otho in Beetlejuice, but we’ll always remember him as Father Ripper from Heathers, who blamed a teen’s death on “the MTV video games.” More specifically, he blames the death of one of the 1989 dark comedy teens on “a society that tells its youth that…

By Mike Fahey Published September 8, 2010

What Game Characters Does Japan Want To Befriend?

Better yet, what game characters do the readers of Japan’s Dengeki want to become chums with. Let’s have a look: 10. Zidane (Final Fantasy IX) 9. Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) 8. Sora (Kingdom Hearts) 7. Amaterasu (Okami) 6. Kyousuke Natsume (Little Busters!) 5. Felynes (Monster Hunter) 4. Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia) 3. Youhei Sunohara…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2010

More Details About Nintendo 3DS Kingdom Hearts Game

Square Enix is making a Kingdom Hearts game for the Nintendo 3DS. The main characters will be Sora and Riku, and players will alternate between them while playing as they make their way through the game’s “mysterious” story. How…mysterious! While unable to go into great length about the game system, designer Tetsuya Nomura says that…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2010

Your Guide To This Summer’s Movies

Summertime is more than beaches and barbecues. It’s also when Hollywood releases some of its biggest motion pictures. Here’s a look at the Hollywood’s upcoming summer blockbusters, both good and bad. SALT – Release Date: 7/23 Angelina Jolie, star of the Tomb Raider movies, does her best cloak and dagger in this espionage thriller. Salt…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 23, 2010

So Many Square Enix Toys, So Little Time

At this year’s Tokyo Toy Show, Square Enix showed off…toys. There are loads of Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts figures and knick-knacks. Makes sense, because there are loads of Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts games. I like the inflatable Slimes. Have a look for yourself. ［東京おもちゃショー2010］スクウェア・エニックスでフィギュア三昧 [Gizmodo Japan]

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 15, 2010

Screw English, It’s All About C

This month, Japanese online retailer Rakuten.com decided the language that was used internally by the company would no longer be Japanese. By 2012, the company’s official in-house language will be English. That would mean all meetings would be conducted in English and all internal documents would be in English. English, English, English! Rakuten has been…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2010

Kingdom Hearts Designer Talks Picking and Choosing

Last year, it was revealed that Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura originally conceived with chainsaws. “There things I wanted to do [with Kingdom Hearts]”, Nomura recently told Kotaku, “but things that were not allowed.” Maybe like chainsaws? Obviously, you can’t have Mickey Mouse wield a chainsaw. (Well, I guess you could. And I guess it…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 25, 2010

The Kingdom Hearts Keyblade Takes Disneyland

Over at Disneyland forum MiceChat, member AcmePunched created a keyblade weapon from Square Enix’s Disney franchise Kingdom Hearts. That’s no big deal. What she did, however, is. AcmePunched took the Keyblade to Disneyland and had an array of characters pose with it until… “A security guard came up to me and asked about the key,”…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2010

Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded Debuts In America Next Week

The Nintendo DS re-make of a Japanese Kingdom Hearts cell-phone game will be at video game mega-show E3 next week. Cool, but is that the Kingdom Hearts E3 mystery game? This is what we know: Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is not Kingdom Hearts 3. No way. It’s one of two Kingdom Hearts games Square Enix confirmed…

By Stephen Totilo Published June 9, 2010

What Is Your Favorite Square Enix Series?

A recent pol asked 3,000 people that same question in Japan. But before we get to that, let me ask you this: What’s your favorite Square Enix franchise? Here are the results to said poll: 10. Valkyrie Profile series 2.7 percent 9. Front Mission series 2.8 percent 8. Kingdom Hearts series 2.9 percent 7. Itadaki…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 9, 2010

New Kingdom Hearts Game Will Be At E3

E3 may well be full of unexpected surprises, but one thing that’s for sure is we’ll see a new Kingdom Hearts game. Series director Tetsuya Nomura was interviewed in the latest issue of Game Informer, and while he stopped short of saying that one of two KH games currently in development is Kingdom Hearts 3,…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2010

Kingdom Hearts Figures Might Be Too Damn Cute

Kingdom Hearts fans, who we know like things cute, will surely snap up these new figures from Square Enix, which are not only based on Kingdom hearts characters, but are incredibly, impossibly cute. There are five available – Sora, Cloud, Tifa, Axel and Riku – with the catch being you need to buy them as…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2010

What Does Kingdom Hearts 3 Depend On?

Kingdom Hearts is the Square Enix role-playing series staring Disney characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. The series has had several spin-offs, but gamers are eagerly awaiting Kingdom Hearts 3. “About the next title, Kingdom Hearts 3 depends on Final Fantasy Versus XIII, but development of the next title is already underway,” Kingdom Heart…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2010

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Snoozes Its Way To America

Square Enix is bringing the PSP prequel to its incredibly popular Kingdom Hearts series to North American shores, unsurprisingly, applying a vague “summer” release date to Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. The fifth entry in the Disney-Square Enix crossover series, Birth By Sleep will be armed with a few new additions in its North American…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2010

Thank Kingdom Hearts For Epic Mickey

No, the head of Disney’s gaming division wasn’t taking the bait and announcing Kingdom Hearts 3 here at the annual DICE convention near Las Vegas. But he did tell Kotaku that franchise paved the way for another big Disney game. “It forced us to challenge assumptions,” Disney’s game studio chief Graham Hopper said of the…

By Stephen Totilo Published February 18, 2010

Final Fantasy XIII, Chrono Trigger and Kingdom Hearts: The Statues

The small Square-Enix booth at Toy Fair 2010 had some fancy Final Fantasy jewelry, the newest versions of upcoming Final Fantasy XIII statues, some tiny Chrono Trigger pieces and some new Kingdom Hearts figures. Sorry, I didn’t photograph the jewelry.

By Stephen Totilo Published February 17, 2010