Square Enix have released a new batch of screenshots for Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX, showing off the Kingdom Hearts Re:coded HD Cinematic Story Videos. These 17 new screenshots can be seen below, in our gallery.
Square Enix have also officially revealed the exclusive Disney collectible pin that will be included in the HD 2.5 ReMIX Limited Edition. This Limited Edition will be available in North America, Europe and Australia, and is available as a free upgrade when you pre-order the game anywhere. You can view the pin and the Limited Edition case below, in our gallery.
Update: Kaori Takasue, the Product Manager at Square Enix Japan Studios, has shared some comments
on the official PlayStation blog about the size of the HD 2.5 ReMIX case, and how exactly the pin will be included. These are quoted below.
Update 2: Square Enix Japan has released the Japanese versions of the screenshots above along with a new render featuring Data Sora, Data Riku & King Mickey. 4Gamer.net have posted them and thanks to them you can view them below, in our gallery.
Square Enix North America has unveiled their Play Arts Kai table at San Diego Comic Con 2014, revealing new Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX figures of Sora and Roxas. These figures are among the purchases that qualify the buyer a ticket to get a the postcard signed by Tetsuya Nomura, director of the Kingdom Hearts series. Images of these figures, as well as all other photos from Comic Con, can be seen below in our gallery.
Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] is celebrating their 1st anniversary, and they are treating the players with new events, cards and even an autographed postcard by Tetsuya Nomura himself. To be awarded one of the autographed postcards, a Hall of Fame ranking was created for the players. The lucky winners of these rare postcards will be the ones who ranked 1st place in different categories like most Lux (light points) collected, most raid bosses defeated, and most treasure chests opened, among others categories.
If you started playing Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] in the past but then stopped for any given reason, right now is the time to come back, as the website is also doing a comeback campaign. Any players that have not logged in for over a month and log in during the 1st Anniversary events will be able to obtain many free items like new cards, potions, ether, and Moogle medals (these are coins used in the game to buy other items).
To help with the celebrations, Donald and Goofy have appeared for the first time in Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]. They can be found in a special area of Daybreak Town. Our favorite sidekicks arrived here and now need our help gathering gummi pieces that can be obtained by defeating certain heartless in the game. The gathered gummi pieces can also be exchanged for new cards and items at the Moogle Trade. Among the things you can buy with your gummi blocks are new sets of clothes that are themed after our favorite gummi ship engineers, Chip and Dale.
Another special treat for players was the release of the 1st Anniversary Premium boxes. These can only be purchased with real money, each being 10,000 yen (approximately US$98.20). They are filled with great items, but the main attraction is a special attack card that commemorates the game's 1st Anniversary and comes with a multiplier boost of x5 in its attack and defense points.
Lastly, the game is also awarding new cards to everyone who logs in every week during the 1st Anniversary events and offers a x2 multiplier on experience gained from fighting enemies and card synthesis. These events and celebrations will end once the maintenance on August 14th starts.
Here is Nomura's postcard, as well as some other images released to promote the event:
Video Game Orchestra (VGO) will be at the Berklee Performance Center on October 2, 2014, and are scheduled to perform music from the Kingdom Hearts series, along with music from other popular video game franchises. If you are in the area of Boston, MA, be sure to buy tickets on their website!
As you may remember, VGO is the orchestra responsible for the re-orchestrated soundtrack of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix in Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX.
Famitsu.com have announced that Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX appears in the July 24, 2014 issue of Famitsu Weekly. The article focuses on the recently revealed cover artwork for the game, as well as the Kingdom Hearts Re:coded HD Cinematic Story Videos included in the collection. You can view a preview of this article below.
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What we're looking for:
- A big interest in the Kingdom Hearts series.
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If interested, please apply by replying to this news post, or contact us by sending me a PM, letting us know why you think you'd be a good addition to our team. Please apply even if you're unsure! Good luck!
Square Enix North America has updated the listing for Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX on the Square Enix Online Store, revealing that North American fans will be getting a Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX Limited Edition release.
This update also includes the North American cover art, which is the same as the Japanese art and can be seen below:
Update: Square Enix have since removed the Limited Edition description from the game's listing on their online store.
After a three hour maintenance period that occurred this past July 23rd on the Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] website, a total of 14 new cards were added to the card roster. This new set of cards is part of the Raise Draw Set. Raise Draw are special black tickets that players can obtain through completing missions on the game or purchasing them with real money.
For those of you who are not familiarized with the game, attack cards are part of the battle system used to defeat Heartless in Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]. Each card can perform an attack animation and inflict damage according to its level and stats. The special part of the Raise Draw set is that these cards will have a powerful multiplier boost on their attack and defense stats, that will last until August 6.
You can see the new Birth by Sleep cards below, in our gallery.
We've bought a new server for KH13, and have spent the last week copying the website over and configuring everything. If you can see this news post, that means you're on the new server. This server is much faster than the old one, with about 4x as much theoretical capacity. Hopefully, this means we'll see KH13 loading faster, with much less crashes. With these improvements, let's look forward to uninterrupted coverage of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX's appearance at San Diego Comic-Con International in under 4 day's time!
A couple of days ago, Square Enix showed off photos of the Kingdom Hearts COLLECTORS PACK HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX bundle for Japan, a collection of both Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX that will be released in Japan on October 2, 2014. Now, Square Enix have updated HD 2.5 ReMIX's official Japanese website again, revealing some details about both the Kingdom Hearts Music Selection (the Blu-ray music disc included in the collection) and the Kingdom Hearts Visual Art Collection. These details are below.
Kingdom Hearts Music Selection
- 32 re-orchestrated tracks from HD 1.5 ReMIX and HD 2.5 ReMIX
- Here is the complete track listing:
Kingdom Hearts-HD 1.5 ReMIX-
01. Dearly Beloved
02. Destiny Islands
03. Traverse Town
04. To Our Surprise
05. Go for It!
06. Deep Jungle
07. Winnie the Pooh
08. A Day in Agrabah
09. Monstrous Monstro
10. Under the Sea
11. This is Halloween
12. Pirate's Gigue
13. Hollow Bastion
14. Fragments of Sorrow
15. Guardando nel buio
Kingdom Hearts-HD 2.5 ReMIX-
16. Lazy Afternoons
17. Working Together
18. Scherzo Di Notte
19. Waltz of the Damned
20. Fields of Honor
21. The Underworld
22. Monochrome Dreams
23. Bounce-O-Rama
24. He's a Pirate
25. Arabian Dream
26. Spooks of Halloween Town
27. What A Surprise?!
28. Adventures in the Savannah
29. Byte Bashing
30. Deep Anxiety
31. Sacred Moon
32. The Other Promise
Kingdom Hearts Visual Art Collection
- 30 pages long, at a B6 size
- Contains 180 pieces of illustrations
Photos are available here
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX - ¥6,648 (approximately US$64.97) + tax
- HD 2.5 ReMIX by itself
- Comes with a downloadable PlayStation 3 theme if purchased from Amazon.co.jp
Kingdom Hearts Starter Pack HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX - ¥9,800 (approximately US$95.76) + tax
- Both HD 1.5 ReMIX and HD 2.5 ReMIX
Kingdom Hearts Collectors Pack HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX - ¥14,000 (approximately US$136.79) + tax
- Both HD 1.5 ReMIX and HD 2.5 ReMIX
- Comes with a Blu-ray Music Disc containing tracks from the series
- Comes with an artwork booklet
Each of the above options is also available with the Kingdom Hearts II Play Arts of Sora in Limit Form, for an extra ¥8,389 (approximately US$82.00).
Square Enix North America has announced in a Square Enix Presents video that Tetsuya Nomura, director of the Kingdom Hearts series will be attending San Diego Comic-Con for the first time. Nomura will be holding a special autograph session which will be held at Square Enix's booth (#3829) at an unnamed time. To obtain a ticket for the special autograph session, you must purchase a qualified Play Arts Kai at Square Enix's booth which will be in limited supply.
San Diego Comic-Con 2014 will be held on July 24-27 at the San Diego Convention Center. Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX is confirmed to be featured with a playable demo.
Update: @Hidemi Matsuzuka, the merchandise manager for Square Enix has released the Kingdom Hearts version of the postcard you can get signed by Nomura. You can view it below.
The latest issue of V Jump features Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX. In particular it focuses on the Re:coded HD Cinematic Story Videos. You can view it below thanks to @bKvEBVAvUq
Square Enix has updated the official Japanese website for Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX with various photos showing off the Kingdom Hearts COLLECTORS PACK HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX along with the other special bundles available. You can view them all below.
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX - ¥6,648 (approximately US$64.97) + tax
- HD 2.5 ReMIX by itself
- Comes with a downloadable PlayStation 3 theme if purchased from Amazon.co.jp
Kingdom Hearts Starter Pack HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX - ¥9,800 (approximately US$95.76) + tax
- Both HD 1.5 ReMIX and HD 2.5 ReMIX
Kingdom Hearts Collectors Pack HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX - ¥14,000 (approximately US$136.79) + tax
- Both HD 1.5 ReMIX and HD 2.5 ReMIX
- Comes with a Blu-ray Music Disc containing tracks from the series
- Comes with an artwork booklet
Each of the above options is also available with the Kingdom Hearts II Play Arts of Sora in Limit Form, for an extra ¥8,389 (approximately US$82.00).
Square Enix has updated the official Japanese website for Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX with the cover artwork for Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX. Below you can view the cover, as well as the artwork by itself.
@hidemi_mad_dog, the merchandise manager for Square Enix Japan, has revealed a new piece of merchandise that will tie in with Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX-- Trading Rubber Straps. The image shown is a box containing 6 of these rubber straps, including Terra, Ventus, Aqua, a Shadow Heartless, Sephiroth, and Halloween Town Sora.
