Video games and cartoons seem to be the theme this week as we dive into all of Funko’s latest announcements! Kingdom Hearts III is getting the usual full battery of products with Pop! Pens, Pop! Keychains, and, of course, Pop! figures. And, yes, there will be exclusives. Sora in drive form is available as a Pop! Best Buy exclusive. Sora with duel blasters is available as a GameStop...
When Final Fantasy VII Remake and Kingdom Hearts III were both announced by Square Enix, its large fanbase erupted with applause. Two long-awaited projects were now within grasp, and it would only be a matter of time before they were playable. …an exceptionally long period of time, perhaps half a decade or more. Director Tetsuya Nomura has a reputation for extended development phases...
Kingdom Hearts III has been in development for quite some time. Fans have been growing impatient with the lack of information, and many feared another Final Fantasy XV situation would be on their hands. Thank goodness the game finally got a release window of 2018 this weekend at D23. Director Tetsuya Nomura came out against beliefs that the delays had anything to do with Final Fantasy...
Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura opened up on Kingdom Hearts III this weekend at D23, and he said more in his interviews than he has in the last three years combined! He touched on controlling a new playable character, the potential for a Nintendo Switch release, and finally, at long last, set a 2018 release window for the game. He discussed the potential for a second playable...
At MAGIC 2017 this year in Monaco, we got our first look into Final Fantasy VII Remake and Kingdom Hearts III in quite some time through three screenshots. Not a whole lot of footage, but it’s something at least. Director (of both games) Tetsuya Nomura is now opening up on these three screenshots, and he has a lot to say based on the questions provided to him by Famitsu. As translated...
Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada has been the driving force of the Kingdom Hearts' central theme songs since the first game launched back in 2002. Fans began to worry that Utada wouldn't be participating in Kingdom Hearts III since neither her or Square Enix confirmed her participation. However, Utada's father and manager Teruzane Utada recently took to Twitter, and he confirmed his...
Square Enix showed off quite a bit of Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue at Jump Festa 2015 this week. The upcoming PlayStation 4 package will combine an HD version of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance from the Nintendo 3DS and HD retoolings of Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep — A Fragmentary Passage and Kingdom Hearts x [chi] Back Cover. Yeah, those titles are a lot to...
The illusive and secretive Kingdom Hearts 2.9 has crawled back into the collective curiosity of Square Enix fans everywhere. The LinkedIn profle of Osaka-based game director Richard VanDeventer alludes to him working on the project for the last ten months out of his eleven months with Square Enix. It can’t be a typo for Kingdom Hearts III either, since he lists that immediately...
After a console generation of overall disappointment from the JRPG genre, gears are currently in motion for Japan to retake the living room with a barrage of guaranteed hits from longtime favorite franchises. If these games can’t win Japanese fans back into console gaming and away from their Nintendo 3DS’ and smartphones, then nothing can! I don’t know if we’ve stopped to count yet,...
Square Enix fans have been patiently waiting for new information regarding Kingdom Hearts III. The game turned up at E3 2015 this year in true gameplay form, but Square Enix and Disney have even bigger plans for it in August. Disney Interactive has revealed its line-up of games for the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, and guess which game appears with...