Director Tetsuya Nomura announced in a recent interview with Famitsu that development of Kingdom Hearts III has been moved to Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 instead of Square Enix's in-house engine, Luminous Studios, due unstated reasons although right now they are having difficulties rendering with the engine. Nomura says they are working closely with Epic Games to work through any issues the development team may be having with the engine and are still on schedule with Kingdom Hearts III's...

It's been a 7 year wait, but it's all over now. Thanks to Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX containing english cutscenes in theatre mode, we here at KHInsider have recorded and uploaded the Final Mix scenes - now in English. These are the first high quality copy of these English cutscenes on the internet, and we hope you enjoy!

Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX- was released in Japan a few days ago and already it has been discovered that both Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix & Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep Final Mix retained their respective dual audio Theater Mode from their original PS2 & PSP releases. While looking through the data from Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX-'s disk, YouTube user crazycatz00 has also discovered that most of the English data for Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix is also on the disk.

We learnt yesterday that the Theatre mode for Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix contained English scenes. Today, we booted up our copy of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX and checked if Birth by Sleep was the same.

Revealed in a flounce of style at the end of Terra's story, the development team put the cape on the armour to bridge the end of Birth by Sleep to the secret battle in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix. No doubt some fans will be excited to see the cape make it's triumphant return, but some fans will be sad to learn the team didn't put the cape to more use.

Together with the first press copies of the game is a serial code for Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]. Hence, to celebrate the release of the game, we will be giving out a number of these serial codes to two lucky Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] players! By entering this serial code in the game, you will be able to receive 30 Potions, 30 Ethers, and 1 Limited [SR+] Key Art #16 that features the cover art of Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX-!

Fans eager to get their hands on Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX- this December will undoubtedly want to check out the white Limited Edition boxart, which was just revealed by the french Amazon webstore.

Forum user Bigbadcloud has brought to our attention that one Twitch streamer has discovered that the English voices are still in Kingdom Hearts 2 in the theatre mode.

If you've been following the official Japanese Kingdom Hearts Twitter account over the past week, you may have noticed a series of images featuring Tetsuya Nomura drawing Sora to promote the release of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix. It's not often that we have the opportunity to watch him in action, and thanks to Square Enix, you can watch the entire process for yourself!