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Sora from Kingdom Hearts Modded Into Smash Bros. 4
Kingdom Hearts’ Sora was one of the most requested Super Smash Bros. 4 fighters when Nintendo asked fans who they wanted included last year’s DLC. Although we saw crowd favorites Cloud and Bayonetta, Sora didn’t make it into the roster. Recently, Smash modders Nibrock.Rock and KTH sought to fix that. Using Shulk as a base,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 12, 2016 -
Kotaku East
Kingdom Hearts III’s Japanese Xbox One page has vanished, it seems. As Twitter user @bKvEBVAvUq (via KH Insider) points out, there was previously a Japanese language page on Xbox.com, butit’s now gone. The game’s official Japanese site still lists Xbox One as a platform, and there has been no confirmation that the Japanese version has…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 30, 2016 -
Kotaku EastUtada Hikaru Is Releasing A New Album This September
Utada Hikaru is releasing her first full album in eight years. Announced tracks include “Manatsu No Tooriame,” which is now the theme song of a Japanese news show; “Hanataba Wo Kimini,” which was the theme for a TV drama; and “Sakura Nagashi,” which was the theme for Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. According Yahoo!…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2016 -
Hey, It’s A . . . Oh, It’s Just A Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Trailer
Aqua demonstrates exactly how I feel when I see “Kingdom Hearts” from Square Enix in my inbox and it’s not about Kingdom Hearts III Not that I don’t mind getting a preview of the very-long-awaited third installment of the series via Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep–A Fragmentary Passage. Aqua looks pretty amazing in the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 8, 2016 -
Celebrate The Unofficial Start Of Summer With Delicious Video Game Food
Hot dogs and hamburgers are great, and all. But wouldn’t a barbecue be even cooler with a comforting flask of estus soup, courtesy of Dark Souls 3? Video game food is plentiful. Sometimes they’re so awesome, that recreating them in the real world feels the next logical step. Sometimes they’re so bad, that we’ll gag…
By Narelle Ho Sang Published May 30, 2016 -
Unchained χ Is A Pleasant Little Slice Of Kingdom Hearts
It may be a free-to-play mobile port of a browser-based game, but Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ crams a lot of what series fans love into a tiny space. Prounounced Kingdom Hearts Unchained Chi (Key), the newly-released in North America Android and iOS originated as a Japanese browser game in 2013. Richard Eisenbeis called it “More…
By Mike Fahey Published April 12, 2016 -
New Trailer Shows A Little More Kingdom Hearts III
Square Enix has just put a new Kingdom Hearts trailer that showcases the series’ upcoming 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue release and ends with a couple of minutes’ worth of Kingdom Hearts III gameplay. Nothing ground-breaking, and III still seems to be a long ways off, but this is better than nothing, right? Jump to 3:38…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 18, 2015 -
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Kingdom Hearts Comes To Life
The chances of there ever being a live-action Kingdom Hearts are, mercifully, almost zero. But if it ever did happen, it wouldn’t be a disaster if it looked this…literal. Sora is Jin, Kairi is Sarah. Photo byJulie Wawawa
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2015 -
Kotaku East
Explaining Kingdom Hearts HD II.8‘s Bizarre Title
The most recently announced Kingdom Hearts release is Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 (er, 2.8, WHATEVER). That’s kind of an odd title. But, according to Tetsuya Nomura, there is a reason for it. A confusing reason. Speaking with Famitsu, the Kingdom Hearts designer explained that there are various meanings contained in the naming. “This Kingdom Hearts…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2015 -
Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Announced
Following up Kingdom Hearts HD collections Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix, comes Kingdom Hearts HD II.8. Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 will contain an HD remaster of 3DS title Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. It will also have a completely new HD theater cinematic called Kingdom Hearts χ Back…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 15, 2015 -
Real-Life Kingdom Hearts Keyblade Is Impractical, Smashes Stuff Anyway
Pretty sure the folks at Awe Me like challenges. Their recent project was to forge the Oathkeeper from the Kingdom Hearts series, a keyblade sword with giant holes everywhere, a heart shaped point and a really weird hilt and grip. It just shouldn’t work in real-life. The Oathkeeper is one of those over-designed JRPG items.…
By Gergo Vas Published September 8, 2015 -
Kingdom Hearts III Is Getting A Big Hero 6 World
Sora and crew will ride the robot Baymax and fight their way through a Big Hero 6 world in Kingdom Hearts III, Square Enix announced today during the D23 expo in Anaheim, California. Big Hero 6, an animated Disney film that stars a 14-year-old prodigy and his team of superheroes as they fight against a…
By Jason Schreier Published August 16, 2015 -
The New Kingdom Hearts III Trailer Is Glorious
Today Square Enix showed off new footage from Kingdom Hearts III. As you might expect, it looks stellar. As you also might expect, there’s still no release date or even a release year—the trailer just says “Now in development,” which is just what they said back at E3 2013. Welp. Kingdom Hearts III is currently…
By Jason Schreier Published June 16, 2015 -
Kingdom Hearts Unchained Key Announced For iOS, Android
What, were you expecting Kingdom Hearts III? Square just announced that Kingdom Hearts: Unchained Key, a mobile game that was previously just announced for Japan, will come to North America too. Trailer:
By Jason Schreier Published June 16, 2015 -
Kotaku East
Tetsuya Nomura on Redesigning Characters for Dissidia Final Fantasy
With the release of the latest Dissidia Final Fantasy trailer, Kingdom Hearts director and zipper enthusiast*, Tetsuya Nomura sat down to talk about the newest addition to the character roster. *Not officially “With the two PSP games, I felt I’d ‘done all there is to do’ and took the stance that it was ‘completed,’ so…
By Toshi Nakamura Published April 16, 2015 -
Here’s an oil painting of Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series, based on this well-known piece of official concept art, done by artist Raman Singh. Look below for the HD pics, and check out Singh’s portfolio for more, albeit non-gaming-themed, paintings in this style (I particularly like his portraits). Dayshot is an image-based feature that…
By András Neltz Published March 9, 2015
