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It seems that Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep keeps getting more and more popular, this time with Yahoo jumping on the bandwagon. In a collective that includes Halo, Metroid M and PlayStation Move, Birth by Sleep is one of 'games of the summer 2010'. According to the article, the Kingdom Hearts series has outsold franchises such as Mario Kart, Dance Dance Revolution and Gears of War! That's some going!

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Square Enix Europe has posted a trailer highlighting the brand new characters in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. This trailer features a ton of game play in English not previously seen. All three characters, Terra, Aqua, and Ven are featured. Enjoy!

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Hello, folks! The video game magazine Nintendo Power has published an article about the upcoming DS title Kingdom Hearts Re:coded in their August edition. Read it below--

Heart Transplant

Sora, Mickey, and company return to DS in Kingdom Hearts RE:coded.

Because you can never have too much Kingdom Hearts goodness, Square Enix is bringing its popular Disney-themed action-RPG series back to DS with Kingdom Hearts RE:coded. An enhanced remake of a game previously availab...

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Famitsu.com has updated with high quality images of the screens featured in the latest magazine scans. These images provide insight into the battle mechanics of the game, as well as showing off the graphics. Take a look--

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Good news, the scans from the latest issue of Famitsu, which we covered a couple days ago are now released in fairly high quality. They show off the visual style of the game well, as well as introduce the structure of the game in general, which once again you can read our earlier translations to understand. I'll let you get straight to the scans, just click the thumbnails below.

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Following the release of the highly anticipated Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 3, Square Enix director Tetsuya Nomura had this to say about the possible inclusion of Pixar characters in future Kingdom Hearts titles--

"I am aware of the fan requests for Pixar characters. I will do my best. Maybe one day Pixar characters will be featured in the Kingdom Hearts series."

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Thanks to Neogaf's duckroll, we have the first tidbits on both Re: Coded and Kingdom Hearts: 3DS from the latest issue of Famitsu.

Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded
- Re:Coded is being developed to allow more fans to experience the game, the DS was selected as most people have the hardware.
- Another reason for the hardware choice is that Coded was developed with the lack of analog in mind.
- The story will be the same as Coded, but aside from the event scenes the game...

 

Why Is BBS on the PSP?

Because of the similarities in development concept, performance and design to the PS2, so they feel it would be the perfect platform. So basically they picked a system to which they could use similar design choices to what they did in past titles.

Will you look more into the past of Kingdom Hearts, e.g. The Keyblade War?

They have base concepts for the past, which they look into in BBS, but no plans for a new prequel, or ...

 

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How was KH: Birth by Sleep received in Japan?

Tetsuya Nomura: After its release, Birth by Sleep was praised as the best KH title on the PSP. I think the reason for this is because it was developed in an environment similar to the original Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II, and thus, the gameplay reminded players of the feel and sensation of those games. Of course, some players regretted that Sora was not featured as the main character, but ...