Kingdom Hearts 3 Release Date, Latest News: Game Not Included in Sony Releases for 2015

Mercy Soriano Tuesday, March 03, 2015

A screenshot of 'Kingdom Hearts' game. | FACEBOOK/Official Kingdom Hearts page

"Kingdom Hearts III" will definitely not be released in 2015 as Sony has not included the game in its official list of releases for 2015. Although the game was initially speculated for release in late 2015, fans will have to wait a little longer for the game to be released to PS4 and Xbox One.

"Kingdom Hearts III" is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and published by Disney Interactive Studios for the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. It will be the first Kingdom Hearts game to be featured in the Microsoft platform, having been previously released on the Sony and Nintendo platforms. This will be the eighth instalment in the Kingdom Heart series.

The game will reportedly be the final episode in the "Dark Seeker" saga that began with the original Kingdom Hearts. It will depict the final battle with Xenhort, picking up from the story of "Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance," which was the seventh instalment in the Kingdom Hearts series, released in Japan on March 29, 2012.

The latest news about the game is that it will feature an online or multiplayer mode. The official careers website for Square Enix had a job posting for its Osaka branch where the last part of the job description mentioned about "constantly online games," Attack on Fanboy reported.

The rough translation for the job position reads: "In charge of general technical assistance (workflow construction, selection of middleware etc) in implementing the high quality graphic expression or Kingdom Hearts III. In charge of construction duties for a shader on the game engine for nature representations (water, rain, snow etc) and special effects (magic etc) etc, constantly online games."

Previous reports said game director Tetsuya Nomura had made some veiled references in his interview that an online multiplayer mode could be included in the game. However, nothing has been officially confirmed at this point.

Development of the game is reportedly going full steam ahead.