Square Enix shared production samples of the Kingdom Hearts Formation Arts series three which has Mer-Sora and Kingdom Hearts II Sora wading through Destiny islands.

Final Fantasy VII, Sleeping Dogs, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Hitman Absolution on sale.

Square Enix are holding a Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale on their online store in North America.

Square Enix have provided shipment figures for a few of their major recent releases.

Reflecting on her work, composer Yoko Shimomura said “Hikari” captures the image of Kingdom Hearts. Shimomura was asked to compose a song that captures the feeling of great drama, which led to the creation of “Hikari.”

Nintendo’s data didn’t take into account sales of the “Mark of Mastery” collector’s edition of the game.

Nintendo announce sales figures for New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance in the U.S. [Update: New figures for KH3D.]

Also on the list were Darksiders II and New Super Mario Bros. 2, bringing some nice variety to the top-ten. [Updated with some sales figures.]

Square Enix have a different version of the song for each day counting down to the reveal. This is the “0 days” version.

Square Enix have erected a new teaser website for a project involving characters designed by Tetsuya Nomura and Gen Kobayashi. [Update]

Kingdom Hearts 3D’s focus seems to be not only moving the series past the events in Kingdom Hearts 2, but also to link all the games together, as its introduction hints.

“Nomura wanted it to be a bit thrilling in a way, so we added a time limit. It’s a little bit different in the North American version. We tweaked it.”

Also, Fantasia 2000 was considered as a world for Riku to visit and co-director Tai Yasue talks about designing the artificial intelligence for the Dream Eaters.

Plus see tons of new screenshots from the English version of Kingdom Hearts 3D.