The beloved company, Square-Enix, has joined with another company known as Nifty, launching a series of casual games with in-game adds. Nifty is simply using Square Enix's game development resources and experience. Will these adds play a role in the future of gaming? The way it works is that while you're level is loading, an advertisement appears, making it unable to be closed. These casual games can be played at Nifty's home site. Let us hope that we won't have to to deal with advertising...

The beloved company, Square-Enix, has left us with some rather shocking news. They plan to have in-game adds, adds that are presented during the loading times of future games. Could it be true? Are adds going to rampage the gaming Square-Enix's gaming industry, interfering with you beloved Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts games? We certainly hope not, and that isn't necessarily the case. Square-Enix has made a deal with a company known as Nifty. The result? In-game adds during loading times...

Amazon.co.jp has released information on the Kingdom Hearts 2: Volume 2 Manga, including some excellent cover art that's just drop dead gorgeous!

Information:
-Name: Kingdom Hearts 2: Volume 2 Manga Comic
-Price: 410 Yen (About Four Dollars)
-Release Date: 8/22/07

Keep in mind, this is Japan only. The comic will be in Japanese, an English release will be announced in the future.

What does everyone think about the cover? I adore this art...

It's finally that time! I am so excited to announce the winners of our Boxart Contest! This was KHInsider's first major contest, and it ended up spanning the entire summer due to a lot of difficulties. We're going to be doing a lot like this in the future, but it will certainly not take as long now that we got the hang of it!

I just want to say, I adored each and every entry. Every time a new entry popped in, a huge smile grew on my face. All the...

Exciting stuff!

Yesterday, we opened up our Future of Kingdom Hearts board for all of our visitors to discuss the future of the Kingdom Hearts series, including theories, news, ideas, questions, and just fun things about Kingdom Hearts in general! Already we've gotten thousands of varying discussions on such. We'd like everyone else to join in!

Because of this new section, we will once again be starting up our Theory of the Week and Community Corner features. To have you...

Hey hey! Before we continue to the day's update, I'd like to apologize to those of you complaining about the ads. As the largest and longest standing Kingdom Hearts site, it costs a lot of money to run and manage this website, so we had to add a few more advertisements to cover the cost. Nonetheless we tried to make them as less intrusive as possible so you can still enjoy the site, and in the long run it'll benefit all our visitors, thanks for your support.

Today we are featuring ...

Surprise surprise! Square Enix has released their game list for the Tokyo Game Show! Below is the full list. You will notice a few things, most importantly that Kingdom Hearts is not on the list. Please Note: Any surprises such as new game announcements do not appear on their game list, so not to worry, we will have our next Kingdom Hearts game at the event!

The Tokyo Game show will take place on September 21st-23rd.

To view the full list of games, which contains quite a...

Jane Porter from Tarzan on the left and Naia Kelly who voiced Jane's character in Kingdom Hearts on the right.

Hello, everyone! Deeman here, and I have some exciting information to present you with. As you may have noticed, KHI has just recently interviewed a voice actor for the Kingdom Hearts series. How enthralling and engaging it was to be able to communicate with this lovely person. Her name is Naia Kelly, the voice actor for Jane Porter in the first Kingdom Hearts game. For those ...