After a weekend full of surprises, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will finally be upon us this Monday with a day full of press conferences by the largest game companies in the industry. Cecily (Sign) & Arielle (Master Spockanort) will be reporting news and impressions live from E3 2014 again this year, and our wonderful staff including Geir (Gexus), Joey (Chaser), Katie (Taochan), Sophearum (Zephyr), and Josh (Narukami) will be manning the battle stations at our headquarters.
With Co-Director Tai Yasue attending E3 2014 as special guests, this year will be chock full of new and exciting information about the Kingdom Hearts series!
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- June 5, 2014 (Pre E3)
- June 6, 2014 (Pre E3)
- June 7, 2014 (Pre E3)
- June 10, 2014 (E3 Day 1)
- 12:38pm - Cecily (Sign) has uploaded photos of the HD 2.5 ReMIX demo to our image gallery
- 12:50pm - Photos of various Square Enix merch have been uploaded to our image gallery
- 2:30pm - Interview of Ichiro Hazama, Director of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Series, begins
- 3:08pm - Offscreen gameplay of Cecily playing the demo of Birth by Sleep -Final Mix- has been added to our video gallery
- 3:30pm - Interview of Tai Yasue, Co-Director of HD 2.5 ReMIX, begins
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue confirms that multiplayer will not be present in HD 2.5 ReMIX, particularly in Birth by Sleep -Final Mix-
- 3:36pm - Theater Mode will be present in HD 2.5 ReMIX and Re:coded will have unseen story elements
- 3:36pm - Developing the 2.5 was not difficult
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue states his favorite world is Castle of Dreams
- 3:36pm - Vincent Valentine was originally going to be in Birth by Sleep
- 3:36pm - Over 70 people are working on 2.5 ReMIX
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue says he would love a Frozen world since his daughter loves the movie
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue was given a life-sized Keyblade as a gift
- 5:21pm - The texture for KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 ReMIX has been increased 4 times
- 5:21pm - Re:Coded is nearly 3 hours and was originally supposed to be 2 hours
- 5:23pm - The development team for 1.5 & 2.5 didn't take any breaks
- 5:25pm - KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 ReMIX Collector's Package contains a Blu-Ray disk containing over 80 tracks
- June 11, 2014 (E3 Day 2)
- 11:30am - Yoko Shimomura appears on Square Enix Presents!
- 11:50am - Yoko Shimomura performs the memória! version of Dearly Beloved
- 2:00pm - All Eyes on on KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 ReMIX begins!
- 2:25pm - Square Enix confirm that over 2 hours of Re:Coded's cinematics are brand new, with about an hour with original footage.
- June 12, 2014 (E3 Day 3)
- 2:40pm - Tai Yasue confirms via IGN that they might consider a new-gen version of the HD collections, but nothing's been decided yet.
- 2:42pm - Nothing's been decided yet either on special editions for overseas release of 2.5 ReMIX.
- 2:43pm - Finally some Re:Coded cinematics will be new and feature a backstory into older KH games.
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