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The 'Project Xehanort' Guess the Name campaign is officially over! The title of the new game/mobile experience will be revealed January 30 at 12:00 AM PT. The winners of the Guess the Name contest will be directly messaged on Twitter, and the Project Xehanort Twitter account handle will be changed to the actual game name. Update: The official Twitter for Project Xehanort has apologized for their typo, and the name will be revealed on January 31 at 12am PT.

To celebrate the release of Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind, there will be an exhibit held at Tokyo, Shibuya-ku 2-24-12 Shibuya Scramble Square, on the 12F of the Event Space from January 31 to February 2. It will be known as the Connected Hearts Exhibition, and with it, a campaign being held seven winners will be selected and given a special piece of artwork. Note: Delivery of prizes is limited to Japan residents only. 【Campaign Guidelines】 ● The person must have a good terms Twitter account and not have it set as "Private". ● The person's account must be able to accept DMs. ● The person must be following the official KH twitter (@_KINGDOMHEARTS) ※ To enter, please retweet the tweet. ※ Use the hashtag ＃繋がるハート展 in your retweet. ※ Once a winner has been chosen, the winner will be DMed by the official KH Twitter. (NOTE: The winner will not be able to choose which gift they'll get.) Campaign duration: January 31~February 9 Translation credit goes to KH13's Ryuji! You can take a look at some images of the event's artwork and set up below! The Seven Hearts' names roughly translate to Journey, Destiny, Promise, Twilight, Duplicity, Missing and Eternal.

Two music boxes have been added to the merchandise list for the recent Yokohama concert on their main website. One plays "The Other Promise" and the other plays "Vector to the Heavens". Each one of them are limited to 3 per customer and are listed for ¥7,400 each. Thanks to Churro for the tip!

Series creator and director Tetsuya Nomura will be illustrating a brand new piece of artwork for Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind. It's to be the main visual of the theme. A sample image of the top part of the theme was released via the Playstation Blog, where it details about the DLC announcement and trailer. You can check out the sample image below. You can pre-order the Japanese version of the Re Mind DLC here, and the concert video bundle version here.

Famitsu has published a small interview on their website featuring composers Yoko Shimomura, Tsuyoshi Sekito and Takeharu Ishimoto. The interview mainly focuses on their overall thoughts of the Kingdom Hearts Orchestra -World of Tres- orchestra. Credit to the translations goes to KH13 staff Mio and Solis!

Announced at the X019 conference, Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5 and Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue are finally coming to Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass. To get players into the series, a free Kingdom Hearts III demo on the Xbox Store starting today.

Square Enix is getting ready to start development on its next work within the Kingdom Hearts franchise by listing jobs in the Osaka team for UI Designer, Effect Designer, and Technical Artist for the "HD Development of the Kingdom Hearts series." Since Square Enix hasn't officially announced a new title, these job listings are towards the development of a future or unreleased project. All three of these jobs have a 6 month trial period, so these new hires could potentially be starting off working on a current project. It should be noted that they list specifically for Playstation 4 and Xbox One, as well as Unreal Engine 4, so it's suggested that's what the next project will be developed for. UI Designer -This is a job where you will create an HD easy-to-understand and user-friendly User Interface for the Kingdom Hearts series. -Production and implementation of an optimal UI according to a plan. Proposal and rule creation of UI design with the sense of unity throughout the game's development. -Best part of this job is the user-friendly UI is one of the most important parts of the Kingdom Hearts series, and your creation will be used by millions of passionate fans all around the world. -Need Knowledge of developing for the Playstaion 4 and the Xbox One -Multi-lingual (Japanese, English) Effect Designer -This job consists of creating HD effects for the Kingdom Hearts series. -Effects are very important for the game's graphical quality. This job branches into animation, technical aspects of effects, color, design, etc. -Main required skills are experience in creating effects for the Playstation 4 and Unreal Engine 4's cascade tool. Technical Artist -Shader development and workflow construction of the HD development of the Kingdom Hearts series. -Need experience of development environment and building tools for the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. -Visual proposals, effecient workflow, DCC tool script and shader creation. Credit for the translations, thanks to @ryujiblades! Thanks to Kingdom Hearts Union for the tip!