Kingdom Hearts

Utada 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!…

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…

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…

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…

Browser game Kingdom Hearts χ is ending service in Japanin early September of this year. A mobile version of the game, however, is headingto North America today as Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ. How’s that for timing?

Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, the mobile version of the game that first appeared on browsers in 2013, will be heading to North America on April 7 It’ll be available for iOS and Android devices.

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…

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

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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:

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…

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…

The Kingdom Hearts Remakes Were ‘Good Training’ For Kingdom Hearts 3

Working on the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and 2.5 remixes has been good training for Kingdom Hearts 3, said Tai Yasue (co-director and game designer on Kingdom Hearts 3 and the Kingdom Hearts 1.5/2.5 HD remasters) in an interview in London. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK “We have been working on 3 and 2.5…

Not Even Honest Trailers Can Keep Up With Kingdom Hearts‘ Story

The latest Honest Game Trailer focuses on gaming’s favorite high-speed collision of universes, Kingdom Hearts. As with most Honest Trailers, the Disney-Square Enix mash-up comes out a pile of twisted metal (and cartoon duck bills). But the trailer also raises a good question: where’s our Pixar world? In addition to making that extremely legitimate complaint,…

Tetsuya Nomura’s Version of Hikaru Utada Is… Interesting

This December will see an album of Hikaru Utada songs covered by an array of famous singers. Well-known artists are also doing illustrations, drawings, and art inspired by Utada and her music. For example, this. The album is called Utada Hikaru no Uta (宇多田ヒカルのうた) or Hikaru Utada’s Songs and features covers by Ringo Sheena, Ayumi…

Tetsuya Nomura’s Take on Hatsune Miku Looks So Final Fantasy

You might know Square Enix game creator Tetsuya Nomura best for his Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts character designs. Recently, his version of virtual idol Hatsune Miku was revealed in New York. Via Sega, here is what Hatsune Miku usually looks like. Or this. And as Famitsu shows, this is Tetsuya Nomura’s take, which was…