DK£3713 Event News Via Famitsu!

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Published on June 18, 2008 @ 08:46 am

Written by monkeybutt

Great news! In this week's Famitsu Magazine, Tetsuya Nomura, Director of the Kingdom Hearts Series, held an interview concerning the upcoming DKΣ3713 Event in August. He had a lot to say, and we finally have confirmation of what is playable and what is not! Thanks to Neogaf's Duckroll for the information!

Interview:
-This is a private show. For the general public that wants to see and play the games, please wait for the Tokyo Game Show in October.
-It will be in the same format as previous Square Enix Events, with a closed theater as well as playable booths outside.
-Birth by Sleep will be playable for the first time at the event.
-Despite the news that Square Enix was going to scale back from Mobile development, it appears that Kingdom Hearts Coded, 3rd Birthday and Agito XIII will still be going ahead.
-Agito XIII seems to be facing serious development issues at the moment. There is a huge worldview and historical timeline, etc.
-The director of AgitoXIII is doing the outline of the entire story synopsis himself now, development is still in early stages.
-Versus is on hold until FFXIII is done, because the entire Versus team is helping finish FFXIII at the moment. It is the number one priority.
-While the planners and programmers are all working on FFXIII, the Versus project is getting the designers to work on a lot of image illustrations and conceptual visuals. The story for Versus is also pretty much complete.
-Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS) is being tuned and balanced, but it is not quite as polished as Dissidia yet. They'll be taking feedback from the playable build.
-Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (PSP) is not anywhere close to a final build, but he wanted to let people get a chance to try it out first.
-Advent Children Complete might finally be close to getting a release date.

So what does this confirm?

TRAILERS ONLY:
-Final Fantasy XIII
-Final Fantasy Versus XIII
-Final Fantasy Agito XIII
-Kingdom Hearts: Coded
-The 3rd Birthday
-Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete

TRAILERS AND PLAYABLE:
-Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS)
-Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP)
-Dissidia Final Fantasy
-Sigma Harmonics

Stay tuned as KHInsider provides the quickest and most up to date coverage on all the upcoming events! This also confirms more Kingdom Hearts at the Tokyo Game Show in October, so we have an excellent second half of the year to look forward to! Make sure to comment and join in on forum discussion on what you are looking forward to most! Thanks for choosing us!

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