II.8 Final Chapter Prologue

Square Enix Japan's e-Store has revealed that a Kingdom Hearts 15th Anniversary Box will be available as a pre-order bonus for HD 1.5+2.5 ReMix in Japan, intended to store a copy of both 1.5+2.5, as well as the recently released 'Kingdom Hearts 2.8 HD Final Chapter Prologue'. The box also contains artwork that merges the three cover arts of the three HD re-releases (something that Nomura talked about in the past). Take a look at how the anniversary box looks like below:

Hey everyone! As was announced Saturday of last week, the KH-Vids staff is going to be streaming Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue this weekend! We've been super excited to start, and have been preparing behind the scenes to get ready.

We will be streaming on both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday at 7PM EST, @Cat~ will be streaming Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, with commentary provided by her, Heart, and Karuta.

On Sunday, Plums will be streaming Kingdom Hearts X: Back Cover at 12PM EST (with no commentary). Later that night, Plums will stream Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep: A Fragmentary Passage, with commentary from Plums, Heart, and Fearless at 7PM EST.

Furthermore, to make the commentary a little more interesting, we'll doing a rotating guest commentary throughout the streams! Members who sign up will join with us for about an hour, and then we'll switch over to the next person in line. These will be first come, first serve, but if interested, you should still sign up anyway just in case a spot ends up vacated! As all times are in EST (New York), if you need to know what time this would be in your timezone, follow this link: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/

Available timeslots for both days are:

If you would like to join in for Cat's Saturday stream of KH3D, please fill out this form:
If you would like to join Plums' Sunday stream of KH BBS 0.2, please fill out this form:
For the streams, you can reach and follow our Twitch channel at the following link: KH-Vids Twitch Channel. Additionally, you can click the header image and it'll bring you right to our Twitch channel!

For a quick picture reference as to our schedule for the weekend:

Saturday, Jan 28th


Sunday, Jan 29th



Additionally, during the stream, there's also a chance we may be giving away a few pieces of Kingdom Hearts merchandise to a few lucky participants -- join in and find out! If you have any questions, please post them here. We hope to see you guys there, and are looking forward to a great weekend! :]

Square-Enix has released an update for 'Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A Fragmentary Passage-', fixing a number of gameplay issues to offer a smoother experience with the game. The full list of changes include:

Controls

• Adjusted reflect (guard) response
• Adjusted cartwheel (evade) response
• Adjusted cancellation timing after a Barrier Cracker (counter)
• Adjusted MP consumption

UI

• Adjusted camera speed
• Adjusted shortcut button response
• Adjusted magic command display

System

• Proud Mode adjustments (lowered the amount of damage received from enemies)
• Critical Mode adjustments (increased the amount of damage dealt to enemies)

Enemies

• Adjusted enemy AI and parameters

Source: Gematsu

It has been brought to our attention by @Hayabusa that after unlocking one of three themes that are supposed to be free in the just released 'Kingdom Hearts 2.8 HD Final Chapter Prologue', you will be charged $2.99 to download the theme rather than being able to download it for free:


To make things even more confusing, KHInsider stated:
Most likely, this appears to be an error that'll hopefully be resolved soon. In the meantime, we'll be waiting for a response from Square-Enix.

EDIT: A GameFaqs user appears to have contacted Square-Enix regarding this issue, stating the following:
EDIT 2: The same user, domnu, also posted a screenshot of the email.


We'll let you know if we hear anything else about this story. Thanks to @Hayabusa for letting us know!

EDIT 3:

According to Churro, a long time figure in the KH community, it seems like the themes are now free. As soon as we hear anything else (or if anyone in NA wants to give us a screenshot of this), we'll update this story more!

The official Kingdom Hearts website has just received a massive update, such as dividing the series into four games (Unchained χ[chi], HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix, HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and of course KH3), new character summaries, worlds being listed with the movie they are based off of, as well as the addition of images and past trailers. Interesting things to note in the updated website include the following timeline:

Also, the area usually referred to as the Dark Margin now appears to have an official name: