by Kimberley Wallace:
"Kingdom Hearts III has been front and center at E3, but there are still a few things we’d like to know. Director Tetsuya Nomura was on hand for an interview and we tried to get him to clarify as much as possible. Here’s his answers to some of our burning questions. True to Nomura, there are plenty of hints to follow."
While it may not have been The Witcher 4 gameplay, the Unreal Fest 2025 tech demo for CD Projekt Red's latest gave us a good idea of how the finished game might look. We talked to the developers, as well as Epic Games' Unreal Engine team, to find out exactly how the upcoming open-world RPG looks so incredible.
The studio was founded in March of 2024 by Stig Asmussen, director of the Star Wars: Jedi games.
Hideo Kojima and PlayStation go together like hobbits and breakfasts. That is to say, they're meant to be together, but they're also happy to serve up a PC port or afternoon tea if the time is right. Kojima's long-time collaboration with Sony means it always feels odd to see his name next to an Xbox logo, like Master Chief appearing on your PS5 or glimpsing your teacher in the big Tesco doing her weekly shop.
yawn. ^ All of this opinion piece sounds like someone’s recount when they get out of the norm and go on a hiking vacation and boast about their “life changing moments” over things extremely common and accessible to everyone. Get a rocket ship and take some selfies already. jezzus .
If you missed out on old games it’s nothing to apologize for. Just the way life goes sometimes. We can’t access everything in our short lives.
I demand to see at least Noctis show up along with other Final Fantasy characters. Plus that Cloud vs Sephiroth subplot needs to get resolved after they disappeared into light.
Also only Nomura can get away with showing us such magical things as traveling alongside childhood characters in a trailer only to end it on the most depressing note
i want to see leon e co. again, tidus/wakka/selphie on destiny island, seifer/fujin/raijin/setzer/viv i on twilight town, zack in hercules world, ignis with remy and 2/3 new FF characters showing up (i hope for noctis, zidane and kefka).
also, but probably will never happen, i want another bunch of non-FF characters showing up, like the world ends with you in KH3D... maybe lara croft or aya brea?
Nomura on Aqua reaction: "there are more surprises and some even bigger than that. I just wonder if everyone will be okay."
No. No one will be OK if there's even more than that!
It was surprising seeing aqua like that, but it makes sense if you think about it.
She spent 10 years in a world of darkness, fighting it - she was doing the equivalent of pushing back the ocean. It's a testament to her strength and worthiness of the title "Master", that she's survived so long.
Meanwhile, people like Terra and Riku basically drowned in the bathtub, falling to darkness with the mere wiggle of Xehanort's finger.
Even in the deepest darkness, there is still light, so I have little doubt that Aqua can still be saved.
This is going to be fucking epic.