Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

After Final Fatasy XII: Zodiac Age and World of Final Fantasy, Square Enix and Disney have revealed today a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and announced that it will be available this December on PlayStation 4.

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue includes the HD version of the Nintendo 3DS version of Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep – A fragmentary passage, which runs on the same engine as Kingdom Hearts III and KINGDOM HEARTS χ [chi] Back Cover, a new tale that sheds light on the mysterious foretellers.

Square Enix has announced their E3 line-up for this year. Note that five of the seven games are developed by western studios.

• Heroes of Ruin (Nintendo DS)
• Hitman: Absolution (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
• Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance (Nintendo 3DS)
• Quantum Conundrum (PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, PC)
• Sleeping Dogs (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
• Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (Nintendo 3DS)
• Tomb Raider (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)

Great 'absentee' this year is (again) Final Fantasy Versus XIII which was announced on the E3 back in 2006. Also no Final Fantasy Type-0, which was released last October in Japan.

After the rumors of an European release date Square Enix has now confirmed on their Twitter account (@SQUARE_ENIX_EU) that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance will be released on 20 July.

So Europe will get the game first which is a kinda rare occasion.

Here are all the announcements from the Square Enix 1st Production Department Premier that took place a couple of hours ago in Japan.

• Kingdom Hearts 3D now has subtitle Dream Drop Distance;
• A paid demo of Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy is available in Japan as of today. Those who will buy it will get Aerith as an extra character in the final version;
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 announced for PS3 and 360!;
• Final Fantasy Agito XIII has been renamed to Final Fantasy Type-0;

The biggest disappointment was that there's still no release date for Final Fantasy Versus XIII, while Final Fantasy XIII-2 will already be released this year.
All the trailers that were shown at the event will be released on 27 January, except Final Fantasy XIII-2, which will be available this Thursday.