Yoko Shimomura's "memória!"

Yoko Shimomura, main composer for the Kingdom Hearts series and for the much anticipated Final Fantasy XV, has just released her new compilation album: memória! The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura.

Her last compilation album, "Drammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura," was released back in 2008, and featured re-workings of songs from various games that she has worked on, including an anthology of Organisation XIII themes from Kingdom Hearts, 'Somnus' from Final Fantasy XV (Then, still under the title of Versus XIII), and the Mana series.

NEW! Characters Included For Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Curtain Call!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Curtain Call is set to release in April 24th in Japan, and features many more songs, modes, features, and characters than its original counterpart. The definitive version of the rhythm-based RPG featuring Final Fantasy music also has a new system called the Collectacrystarium, based off the CollectaCards from the original game. Acquiring common or rare cards can bestow additional stats on your character as seen in the video above.  Curtain Call features new music from Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Type-0, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and more.

New characters and summons are also in the game, including Knights of the Round from Final Fantasy VII. Additional characters available in the game from Final Fantasy I ~ VII have also been announced, images of them are below.

Our First Year Anniversary!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, Venso Howlie, Chad and D'Lux, we're proud to announce that today is the day that Kingdom Hearts #1 Fan, Please! was created. Over the year we Admins have posted happy, shocking and sad moments. The most popular post being "Why Disney's "The Little Mermaid 3D" ISN'T CANCELLED!" (which reminds me, I need to do a follow up post). The country that has viewed KHPlease the most, are the United States. Also KHPlease has been visited more the 21,000+ times around the world. To everyone who visits or follows this page, we Admins say "Thank you", and hope you guys and gals have a great day. 

Oh… just quickly, KHplease Youtube Videos Updates will starts on the 25th of March 2014 (Eastern Standard Time).

NEW! Disney's Maleficent Trailer!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, Disney has released a new trailer for the upcoming movie Maleficent, which tells  the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the 1959 classic "Sleeping Beauty," reveals the events that hardened Maleficent's heart and drove her to curse the baby, Aurora. 

This trailer concerns me a little bit, you see the two dragons, but in the end, it ISN'T the Maleficent Dragon, I'm just hoping Disney is keeping it a secret. Also Maleficent had wings! I don't mind… I think it's a good idea considering she was once a "fairy-like" creature. Well, I hope you guys like the trailer.

BREAKING NEWS! The Incredibles 2 & Cars 3 Announced As Pixar Sequels At Walt Disney Shareholders Meeting!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, exciting news today at the Walt Disney Company’s annual shareholders meeting, Disney CEO Bob Iger ran through their upcoming movies for the next few years. After barreling through live-action films, Bob Iger turned to Pixar making some surprising announcements. New sequels to “Cars” and “The Incredibles” are in the works at Pixar. Yay!

No further details were given, other than to say director Brad Bird is back for "The Incredibles 2" and "Cars 3" which is in development. Pixar’s other upcoming films include: Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, and Finding Dory. There are no Pixar movies being released this year in 2014.

I personally haven't heard anything about this movie… 

See the Full Mondo Disney Poster Gallery for “Nothing’s Impossible!”

Hi everyone it's Xebs, look at the amazing artworks from the "Nothing's Impossible" which was a special gallery event to explore decades of beloved Disney films and characters like never before. It was showed at the Mondo Gallery located in Austin, USA. (wish I went).

To view these amazing artworks, Check down below:

Learn How To Draw Disney Characters at Animation Academy at Disney's Hollywood Studios!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, at the Animation Academy at Disney's Hollywood Studios, you can learn how to draw a real Disney character from one of our character artists, nearly every year a new character is added to the artists' repertoires, most recently Anna, Elsa and Olaf from Disney's "Frozen." Here're some Youtube videos to get you inspired.

NEW! Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster Trailer!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, This week, get ready to be thrown back into the magical world of Spira, and join Tidus, Yuna and friends into the most celebrated adventures of their generation, now in beautiful high definition. Featuring over 200 hours of gameplay and including content never before released outside of Japan and fully remastered HD visuals, and rearranged music. 

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster releases in the US on March 18th, 20th for Australia and 21st for Europe, 2014 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.

NEW! FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster - Collector's Edition Unboxing!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, with the launch of FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster in a few days, SQUARE-ENIX NA take a moment to sit down with the Merchandise and Marketing teams to take a first look at everything in the Collector's Edition. Quantities are limited, so make sure to preorder before they're all gone, order now! http://sqex.to/ffx_x2 

Not forget the launch of FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster kicks off with an art gallery charity event in Southern California US.

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster Collector's Edition is priced at $79.99 and includes the following: 

• Full-size artbook packaging, featuring 40 pages of imagery from the beautiful world of Spira 
• FINAL FANTASY X HD REMASTER ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (Blu-Ray MUSIC DISC) - Over six hours of music set to the game's most memorable moments 
• Five lithographs of iconic artwork and characters Also available as a 2-in-1 retail pack, the PlayStation®Vita system version of the game will include FINAL FANTASY X HD Remaster on the game card and FINAL FANTASY X-2 HD Remaster as a downloadable PlayStation®Network voucher*. Both titles will be available on March 18th, 2014 and will support cross-save functionality with the PlayStation®3 system. ONLY at the Square-Enix Store.

NEW! Utada Hikaru - First Love -15th Anniversary Edition- Album!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, a fifteenth anniversary album of Utada Hikaru's "First Love" contains the original tracks of the album featuring the high-fidelity SHM-CD format, and remastering in 2014 by Ted Jensen. This album contains 3 of my favourites songs of her's, "First Love", "Another Chance" and "Give Me A Reason".

There's still no word if Utada Hikaru will be doing a new theme-song for the highly-anticipated Kingdom Hearts III, but last year her Mr Utada said on Twitter that they are "thinking about it", after the "miscommunication" were he replied to a fan's message saying "YES" about Utada Hikaru returning for Kingdom Hearts III. Lets hope that they're still thinking about it, unlike in 2007's interview were Mr Utada said that they won't do the next song after Disney didn't want to pay them more money for the other four past theme-songs "Simple & Clean" aka "Hikari" and "Sanctuary" aka "Passion".

NEW! Interview With Tetsuya Nomura About Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix & Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, in the latest issue of Famitsu, they interview with Kingdom Hearts series Director Tetsuya Nomura. The interview was asking various game developers questions regarding the next generation of gaming. Tetsuya Nomura also recalls his first project working at SQUARESOFT (now, known as SQUARE-ENIX) as a debugger for Final Fantasy IV. Tetsuya Nomura confirms that the voice recording for Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix as been completed, and his also working on new scenarios for Kingdom Hearts χ[chi].

(English translation, thanks to KHinsider) Famitsu - (The people who spun the new gaming generation) The 23rd is Tetsuya Nomura from Square Enix. He joined Square during the time he was helping debug for Final Fantasy IV. Kingdom Hearts 2.5′s recording has concluded, and he has been thinking of further scenarios for Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]. He’s also been raising a Scottish Fold Blue Tabby.

Hopes for Final Fantasy Type-0 in the West!

Chad - Final Fantasy Type-0 was released in Japan quite some time ago. Originally titled Final Fantasy Agito XIII, and a part of the Fabula Nova Christallis series, the title was changed late in development to Type-0, and eventually released on the PSP in the form of 2 UMD disks.

NEW! Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Curtain Call 3DS Game Adds Reno, Golbez, More as Enemies!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, the April issue of SQUARE-ENIX's Shonen Gangan magazine has announced that Final Fantasy II's Emperor, Final Fantasy IV's Golbez and Zeromus, Final Fantasy VII's Reno, and Final Fantasy X's Braska's Final Summoning will all appear as enemies in Square Enix's Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Curtain Call rhythm game. 

Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Curtain Call will ship in Japan on April 24th 2014. The game will collect over 200 songs from the Final Fantasy series of video games, and will have appearances by over 60 characters. A versus battle mode will also be added, allowing players to challenge their friends to rhythm game battles.

BREAKING NEWS! Kingdom Hearts Is Doing A Worldwide Survey!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, SQUARE-ENIX has distributed a worldwide survey called "KINGDOM HEARTS Players Survey"on the official Facebook page for Kingdom Hearts. 

The post quotes: Attention Kingdom Hearts fans - We’d like to ask if you all could take a little bit of time out of your day to help us fill out the below survey. It will take approximately 10-15 minutes and the more truthful your answers are helps shape the future of KINGDOM HEARTS. The survey will be open until 3/14/2014 at 11:59pm PST. 

The site to do the survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GP7XTLF. So please, click it and check it out. 

Just quickly, "apparently" the survey is only for the US, but I tried it and everything went smoothly. 

NEW! Interview With Takamasa Shiba Producer Of Drakengard Series!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, producer Takamasa Shiba, sits down for a interview about his experiences with the franchise, the prequel novella, and how Drakengard 3 came to fruition after an eight year hiatus in the series. 

Drakengard 3 will be available on the PlayStation 3 system as well as for digital download on the PS Network and Square Enix Online Store. Available on May 20th in US,  and 21st in Australia, Europe and Worldwide.

BREAKING NEWS! Kingdom Hearts #1 Fan Please! Video Updates Will Be On March 25th!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, I'm pleased to say that Kingdom Hearts #1 Fan Please! Video Updates on Youtube has a confirmed date, March 25th (Eastern Standard Time). So for the meantime, keep on checking out this site for the latest information about these franchises. And again please enjoy the video that I made. Thanks!

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/KHNumber1FanPlease

BREAKING NEWS! Disney's Frozen Wins Best Original Song!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, again, Disney's first ever Oscar winning movie Frozen has won Best Original Song, "Let It Go." Written by Keisten Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez and sung by non-other then Idina Menzel. Her performance at the Oscars was in my opinion, graceful and beautiful,  but also it was a shame that towards the end she did struggled with the ending note. Well, overall I'm very happy for Disney to win so many awards with this gorgeous film. Also I'm very happy that "12 Years A Slave" won the Best Picture award. So happy!

Also I forgot to say, the introduction to "Let It Go", John Travolta mispronounced Idina Menzel's name, which was quiet funny, but at the same time a little bit disrespectful to Idina Menzel.

BREAKING NEWS! Disney's Frozen Wins the Oscar for Best Animated Feature & Make Over A Billion Dollars At The Box-Office!

Hi everyone it's Xebs, for the first time in forever, the Walt Disney Animation Studio has one it's first Oscar. It's sad to say that Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" didn't win, cause in my opinion it had a better storyline then Disney's Frozen. Overall I'm extremely glad that Disney finally won an Oscar. Also a few days ago Frozen made into the billion dollar club, which the movie made around $1,000,236,000 and still hasn't been released in Japan. Wow!

NEW! Lightning Returns DLC Grab Outfits (...But Is It Worth It?)

Hi everyone Xebs, the new garb outfits for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is in the form of downloadable content. Available through the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, the Ultimate Savior, Moogle Lover, and Divine The sets of garb outfits can be purchased for $3.99 USD each or $9.99 USD, but for Australians we have to pay $5.99 AUD for all the outfits, which is a total of $17.99 dollars. WHAT THE HELL! Maybe when the games DLC gets a little bit cheaper I'll get it, maybe or maybe not?