Thanks to @RPGSite, a photo of this announcement is below.
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Thanks to @RPGSite, a photo of this announcement is below.
Update: This event is now over. All Kingdom Hearts III information from the event is summarized immediately below. For more in-depth information, read on for the live updates.
- KH3 will be released on both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One
- A mature Sora will adventure with Mickey, Donald and Goofy
- New Disney worlds for the series will be included
- The KH series has sold over 19 million copies to date
- KH3 is being developed by the "Osaka team", the team responsible for Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts 3D
Live Update 1: mbdamiani and Nova_Crystallis from Twitter have shared photos of a Kingdom Hearts III poster at E3 2013. This poster is from Square Enix's private conference, "Square Enix: The Future", which is about to go underway. It is likely that this event could reveal more details about Kingdom Hearts III, so stay tuned. The poster can be seen below.
Live Update 2: Yosuke Matsuda, President and CEO of Square Enix: "KH3 - very excited to work again with Disney, and making every effort to measure up to fan expectations." [Source: @RPGSite]
Live Update 3: Shinji Hashimoto, producer of the Kingdom Hearts series, is now on-stage to discuss Kingdom Hearts III. To begin, the Kingdom Hearts III announcement trailer from yesterday is being shown. Matsuda took the stage again, and said "Kingdom Hearts 3 is a game he's looking forward to as a fan, and he awaits further news with excitement."
Co-president of Disney Interactive, John Pleasants, has joined the stage with Matsuda. He is said to have "provided tremendous support for the KH3 announcement", and remarks that "He's thrilled to have everyone here. Everyone knows what KH is, he says." "Sales of more than 19 million copies. An Important franchise for Disney not just in games but for books, games, toys and consumer products."
"A mature Sora who will go off on new adventures with Mickey, Donald and Goofy. New Disney worlds for the series." "Expresses gratitude to Square Enix for their success, passion, energy and creativity. Disney couldn't be more excited." "KH3 will keep the tradition of the series, delivering world class story and gameplay to fans around the world." "Hashimoto back on stage once more. He's extremely happy KH3 is finally announced." [Source: @RPGSite]
Live Update 4: Lastly, Hashimoto announced that Kingdom Hearts III will be released on the Xbox One, as well as the PlayStation 4. All details regarding this are available here.
Live Update 5: Kingdom Hearts III is being developed by the "Osaka team", the team responsible for Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts 3D-- NOT the team who developed Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II, and are currently developing Final Fantasy XV (previously Final Fantasy Versus XIII).
Live Update 6: Arturo Molina has uploaded a much clearer image of the Kingdom Hearts poster, which you can see below.
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This trailer can be seen below, on YouTube. Enjoy! Kingdom Hearts III is finally on the way!
The trailer starts by showing all of the previous Kingdom Hearts titles to date. Next, Sora is shown on Destiny Islands finding Master Eraqus' Keyblade. The Kingdom Hearts III game logo is shown. Lastly, Sora is shown in Twilight Town fighting a wave/storm of Shadow Heartless. Donald and Goofy are party members.
Here is the Kingdom Hearts III game logo:
Make sure to discuss the Kingdom Hearts III announcement in the comments or on our forum-- or, if you want to start a specific discussion about the game, use our new KH3 forum.
Update 1: IGN have uploaded a summary video for the Kingdom Hearts III announcement. In this, they reveal that "according to Tetsuya Nomura, the game began development in 2010, after the release of Birth by Sleep". This is interesting news, as it means development was started up to 3 years ago!
Update 2: mbdamiani and Nova_Crystallis from Twitter have shared photos of a Kingdom Hearts III poster at E3 2013. This poster is from Square Enix's private conference, "Square Enix: The Future", which is about to go underway. It is likely that this event could reveal more details about Kingdom Hearts III, so stay tuned. The poster can be seen below. We will update you on details from this conference live, here.
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This conference will be livestreamed online, and we will be embedding the livestream below once it starts. Please make use of the comments section to share your speculation, thoughts and feelings about the conference! Enjoy!
Update: The conference is now over, and can be watched here. Kingdom Hearts III was officially announced at this conference.
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Arturo Molina from KH13 will be attending the event on behalf of our website, so we are very excited to be able to bring you exclusive photos and videos from the show floor, starting June 11! We'll update this post with any pre-event coverage, and start a new post when the event begins.
Update 1: To start things off, Wario64 on Twitter has taken a photo of a HD 1.5 ReMIX poster from inside the convention. Gamekyo.com has also uploaded a photo. You can see both of these below, in our gallery.
Update 2: Square Enix have revealed the schedule for their E3 2013 livestreams on their SquareEnixPresents channel. HD 1.5 ReMIX will feature with an exclusive interview with SQEX Members at 2:00pm PST on June 11, and a whole focused segment at 9:45am PST on June 12. We will update with countdowns and embedded livestreams closer to these events.
Update 3: The second episode of Square Enix Japan's mdRadio has confirmed that Tetsuya Nomura, director of the Kingdom Hearts series, will be attending E3 2013 for HD 1.5 ReMIX promotion. Nomura will also reveal some particular information, which is suspected to be Versus XIII-related. Stay tuned! Thanks go to Nova Crystallis for the find and translation.
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Update: Square Enix UK have decided to remove the E3 2013 trailer from the Internet, for the time being. Please keep checking back, as we will add the trailer back as soon as they officially release it.
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E3 2013 will take place at the Los Angeles Convention centre on June 11-13.
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