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After almost a decade of working on Final Fantasy XV, Tetsuya Nomura will be handing over directing duties of the Final Fantasy title to Hajime Tabata (Type-0 director) in order to focus on Kingdom Hearts III.

Square-Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda states:

via IGN

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Amongst other postings for a Tech Artist (who work on things like physics and environments) and a UI Designer, the Osaka Studio -- aka the people developing Kingdom Hearts III -- also seem to be interested in some online capabilities after a posting for a Network Programmer. Square-Enix is also recruiting for a new studio focused on console RPGs, so it's really been a week of job openings!

The posting for the Osaka team is in Japanese, but Dualshockers reports:
Fans of the series have lamented that the upcoming Kingdom Hearts II.5 HD Remix will not include the Mirage Arena, a special world in Birth by Sleep where up to six friends can team up for a variety of battles and challenges. Interviews with Tetsuya Nomura and Tai Yasue have remained open to the idea of multiplayer for Kingdom Hearts III but have not confirmed anything.

Given Dualshockers' evaluation of the posting, it seems unlikely that the ad pertains to Kingdom Hearts III. However, we'd love to hear what you all would like to see in KH3 multiplayer. It's worth noting that the Osaka Studio is responsible for the Dissidia series and other spin-off titles, so it's entirely possible that the posting has nothing to do with Kingdom Hearts at all -- but maybe a Kingdom Hearts Dissidia?

It's up in the air right now, but we'd love to hear your best speculations!

Dengeki Online has posted their review of the HD collection, which is due to release in Japan on Oct. 2nd. Within their review they mention that there is a brand new Secret Movie to unlock!

Translation courtesy of Google Translate (grammar clean up by me) and KH13.

Project Destati is a group of musicians who have been paying tribute Yoko Shimomura’s brilliant compositions in the Kingdom Hearts games.


The truly capture the magic of Kingdom Hearts in their own versions. Apart of this team are Kristin Naigus, David Russell and Sebastian Wolff. Today they have released their new album called Light, containing 22 re-imagined tracks from Kingdom Hearts. This follows their first album Awakening, which released 358 days ago.

Light is available here on Loudr, or here on iTunes.


Source: Offical Facebook Page, Thank you to Tale for the find.