{"id":466,"date":"2026-07-14T00:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=466"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:07:57","slug":"kingdom-hearts-4-news-could-come-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Hearts 4 News Could Come Sooner Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A special 25th-anniversary Kingdom Hearts panel at Disney&#8217;s 2026 D23 event has fans of Square Enix&#8217;s RPG series wondering if major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/kingdom-hearts-iv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingdom Hearts 4<\/a> news is right around the corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disney doesn&#8217;t hold a D23 annually (the previous one was held in 2024), and in recent years the fan event has taken on newfound importance as a stage for the House of Mouse to make all kinds of major announcements about upcoming films, shows, and even, occasionally, video games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year in particular may be worth paying attention to for Kingdom Hearts fans. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/d23.com\/all-day-programming-lineup-announced-for-d23-the-ultimate-disney-fan-event-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> detailing the programming fans can expect from D23 this year, Disney revealed an hour-long panel titled &#8220;Deep Dive into Kingdom Hearts,&#8221; which will celebrate 25 years of the franchise on August 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Join us for a journey through light and darkness as we commemorate 25 years of Kingdom Hearts,&#8221; the panel&#8217;s description reads. &#8220;Discover how this saga united Disney, Pixar, and Square Enix, with insights from the creative minds, character voices, and more behind the magic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KINGDOM HEARTS IV - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZjagzpvHXU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who, exactly, those &#8220;creative minds&#8221; in attendance will be remains to be seen. While voice actors and Disney employees are a given, the bigger question is whether anyone from Square Enix will be in attendance. If so, there is no bigger creative force behind Kingdom Hearts than Square Enix&#8217;s Tetsuya Nomura, who in addition to designing the look of the series&#8217; iconic characters has also directed every main entry in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until we know exactly who will be featured as part of the panel, it&#8217;s hard to say for sure what to expect. The existence of the panel on its own isn&#8217;t exactly direct confirmation that Kingdom Hearts 4 news, whether it be a new trailer, a release date, or some other announcement, will happen at D23, but it certainly wouldn&#8217;t be surprising.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was just last month that a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/kingdom-hearts-4-gets-a-surprise-look-at-nintendo-direct-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer<\/a> served as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-direct-june-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June Nintendo Direct&#8217;s biggest announcements<\/a>, breaking years of radio silence and confirming it would launch on Switch 2. Like previous looks at Kingdom Hearts 4, the trailer showed Sora battling against Heartless in a modern day, Japan-esque setting, even as it flashed glimpses of other characters like Donald, Goofy, various hooded figures, and even lesser-known characters from various mobile spin-offs like Kingdom Hearts Union X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special 25th-anniversary Kingdom Hearts panel at Disney&#8217;s 2026 D23 event has fans of Square Enix&#8217;s RPG series wondering if major Kingdom Hearts 4 news is right around the corner. Disney doesn&#8217;t hold a D23 annually (the previous one was held in 2024), and in recent years the fan event has taken on newfound importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}