“Kingdom Hearts III” Receives New Game Engine

Luminous Engine Switched to Unreal 4

By Bryan Smith on October 7, 2014 at 6:08pm

In a recent interview at Famitus (in Japanese), Tetsuya Nomura announced "Kingdom Hearts III" will have a new game engine, Epic Games' Unreal 4 engine.

The previous in-game engine, Luminous Engine, has been causing some rendering issues for the game. Unreal 4 should fix whatever is causing the problems.

"Kingdom Hearts III's" release date is still unknown and will coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The next "Kingdom Hearts" game will be "Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix," which will release for the PlayStation 3 on Dec. 2 for North America, Dec. 4 for Australia, and Dec. 5 for Europe. Japan has already received their copies on Oct. 2.

Kingdom Hearts 3

Release:TBA

ESRB Rating: Rating Pending

Publisher: Square Enix

Platforms: PS4, Xbox One

Purchase: Amazon