A wise man once said, "It appears we've come to a standstill." The question is, is our standstill over again for the time being? Perhaps! Jesse David Corti, well known for his role as Neku Sakuraba in The World Ends With You may have just confirmed his return via the comments of his beautiful song on Youtube, In Memory of the Living, to voice the alternate universe persona of the headphone-clad Shibuya teen! Or we're probably overthinking things again due to the current news drought. Take wha...

Rinoa's wings were added to the back of Leon's jacket in order to imply that something happened in the past that would lead him to reject his original name.

Nomura personally thought that Rinoa was different from the other characters in Final Fantasy VIII and her personality was harder to grasp, leading to her exclusion in Kingdom Hearts.

Remember the White Mushroom Heartless from the original Kingdom Hearts? How they only appeared with other ones when you encountered them? Well it turns out that during development there was some trouble animating the Heartless which caused it to take up much more data than expected. This meant that no other enemy could share the spotlight unless it was another White Mushroom.

It is not news to any fans that Leonard Nimoy, know for his iconic role as Spock in the sci-fi franchise Star Trek, voices Master Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. It is also well known by the fandom that Mark Hamill, who is best known by his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Warsfranchise, voices Master Eraqus in the same game.

Something not many know is that Nomura personally requested for the both of them to voice their respective characters because of their past roles as Spock and Luke Skywalker.

Written by Cecily Lam Saturday, 11 February 2012

It was certainly no surprise when Mickey Mouse's arch-nemesis, Peg Leg Pete, first appeared in the early beta trailers for Kingdom Hearts II. This feisty duo have butted heads several times over throughout the past few decades, the scrawny, mischievous little rascal versus the larger, bumbling but cunning fee-fie-foe. It was only natural that their rivalry transcend universes and into that of Kingdom Hearts, and yet, you can't help but ...

Thanks to aibo_ac7 for the heads up and forum member Taocha~n for the direct source, we have an image of what appears to be the box art of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance! Reminds you of that message we received at the beginning: "Darkness becomes Light, Light falls into Darkness." Click on the image below to enlarge!

The Square Enix e-Store has also updated their pages with the pictured boxart! In addition to this, the e-Store Twitter has posted a slightly larger version of t...

Still interested in the series? Experienced in graphic-making? Then by golly do we have a proposition for you! We here at Kingdom Hearts Insider are currently searching for a total of 2 graphic artists to join our team of staff in order to bring beautiful pieces of artwork to the community! If you are interested, please send us an email at kingdomheartsinsider@gmail.com. We are searching for individuals who can provide the following: 1 iPhone wallpaper (640 x 960 for 4/4s or 320 x 48...

Final Fantasy characters were included in Kingdom Heartsto play roles that were not possible for Disney characters to play.

Leon was decided to play the role of the "guiding swordsman" who'd lead Sora in the right direction on his journey. However, if people immediately saw his original name (Squall) in Mickey's letter before actually meeting him, it would take away all of the suspense and the impact would be greatly weakened. Event Planning Director Jun Akiyama suggested to change his name for that reason.

Good evening everybody! We're pretty newsless right now (oh drought, how we hate thee~), but maybe things will start to get better in the coming weeks!

Richard Epcar, voice actor of Xehanort's Heartless and Apprentice Xehanort in the Kingdom Hearts series, posted an update on his Facebook today mentioning he had worked on a "big title game". Now before you get your hopes up, it wasn't Kingdom Hearts...but he did say this concerning the series:

Think we'll be getting...