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E3 is just a few days away and Square has decided to drop a short video for what they'll be showing off at the conference; complete with ~secret~ titles and some patented Square humor. Will Kingdom Hearts make an appearance at the expo? Only a few days until we find out!

Count Dooku. Dracula. Saruman.
These are just a few of the many legendary and villainous roles that the talented Sir. Christopher Lee was able to portray. With over 250 roles and 65 years of experience in the industry, Lee had also performed a range of heavy metal tracks and recieved various awards for his efforts.

Best known for his deep operatic voice and suave presence, he portrays the character Ansem the Wise in the Kingdom Hearts series. Having only the chance to voice the role in Kingdom Hearts II, and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, this marks the second well known actor in the series to have passed this year following the death of Xehanort back in February.

His cause of death appeared to be from respiratory problems and heart failure, dying on June 7th 2015, just under 2 weeks after his birthday. His family made the official announcement on June 11th 2015. Our hearts here at KH-vids.net go out to him in hopes that he may enjoy all the sea salt ice cream he wants now.

News find courtesy of Anixe

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m proud to officially unveil KH-Vids 9.0.


Those who have been with us for several years know that it has been somewhat of a tradition to redesign KH-Vids every year, and while there have been lapses, I’ve always enjoyed revisiting and updating the site’s appearance so regularly. For the ninth (numbered) iteration of our site, however, I decided to tackle a rather ambitious goal: creating a style framework.

What does that mean, exactly? Well, to put it in layman’s terms, every year I build a new style for KH-Vids completely from scratch. This involves a lot of work, and much of it is simply adding support for the many custom pages, features, and systems we have on KH-Vids. Redoing all of that every year gets tiresome and delays the process. Think of the KH-Vids Framework as a sort of custom base style that I can develop off of, rather than having to repeat all that work!

That’s great and all, but what does that mean for you – the end user? Well, with that base, it will be a lot easier to update styles, add new features that we invent or you guys request, and best of all, offer multiple different styles to our users. You’ll notice that we’re launching KH-Vids 9.0 with both Light and Dark variants! Basically…

• Creating new styles is faster and easier
• Increased consistency between styles
• Styles will no longer be deprecated/deactivated once replaced
• Styles can be updated easily & all at once (when a bug is fixed on one style, it's fixed on all of them)

There are a ton of new features and updates hidden within this update, and it’d take ages for me to detail them all in this post. I’m going to be trying something new now, not just for stylistic updates but for any new features we’d like to detail on this site – Have You Seen? posts! Within the Feedback & Assistance section, I’ll be creating individual threads that highlight some of these changes and help users acclimate themselves with them.

Similarly, because of the expanse of the KH-Vids Framework and KH-Vids 9.0 (this update also brings us to the latest version of XenForo, 1.4.7), we’ll be taking bug reports a little differently now. If you notice something that doesn’t look (or work) quite right, you can now post in our special bug report section and I’ll take care of it, rather than flooding this thread and creating a jumbled mess.

I’d also like to extend a thank you to the entire staff team for their feedback throughout the creation process, but especially to @libregkd , who helped me in creating the framework with his code expertise.

We hope you guys enjoy the new look!

Today the official Kingdom Hearts Facebook page shared a new survey for fans of the series. The survey aims to give fans a platform to share their feedback on the future of the Kingdom Hearts series.

The majority of the questions are demographic or otherwise cover your history with the series (such as what games you have played, which of the HD Remixes you have purchased, and what platforms you play on). However, the fifth question asks fans to weigh in on localization, and what translated state a game must be in for them to consider it. With the localization status of Kingdom Hearts Unchained Key still unknown, this survey is presumably connected to it.

The survey is short and should take no more than a few minutes. It will close on June 12th, 2015 at 11:45PM PDT. You can fill out the survey here.

It's podcast time everybody!

This week your usual podcast crew, @Misty, @libregkd, and @Calxiyn, host the annual E3 predictions episode! As one of the biggest events in gaming, if not the, E3 promises to deliver new game reveals and news galore. Going through each major conference (Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Nintendo, and Square-Enix), we make our predictions, call our bets, and place ourselves at the mercy of the great gaming gods. Our coverage of Square-Enix's conference includes speculation on the presence of Kingdom Hearts at the event, including Unchained X[chi], an HD remaster collection, and of course, Kingdom Hearts 3!

As per usual, we also answer user-submitted questions! @Graxe digs up one of the more ridiculous elements of KH-Vids history and @Quilligan asks us about Steven Universe!

Please support and participate in the KH-Vids Podcast by leaving us a comment, answering our user-submitted questions, submitting to be a guest, or sending in questions of your own -- and have a Kingdom Hearts day!


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