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The following video, featuring news coverage of Square Enix’s recent DKΣ3713 Private Party was spotted on Sony’s PlayStation TV in Japan. The video shows some new footage, and some previously shown footage.

The majority of it’s not breaking news, though we do briefly see some game play footage of the Dissidia: Final Fantasy demo and the Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep demo. We also see some footage from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete.

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Several new Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots have surfaced on the internet. We’ve seen the majority of Dissidia, 358/2 Days and Birth By Sleep screenshots before, however all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new.

Two of the Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep screenshots are of conversations during cutscenes, however the other two seem to show some kind of in game mini-game. It’s hard to tell what’s happening in the mini-game, but it looks as if Terra has to kill one enemy after another within a certain time limit. The ‘Time Limit‘ ring could be part of the battle system, but it’s more likely to be part of a mini-game.

The Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days screenshots don’t really provide us with anything new, they’re just high quality screenshots of those shown in Shonen Jump earlier this week.

As I said earlier, all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new. From what I can make out, it looks as if Coded’s in game battle system will use a mobile phone’s arrow and letter keys to create combos. Whilst in a battle, Kingdom Hearts: Coded seems to use a 3D engine; however from the looks of things Coded’s field play is going to be 2D - reminiscent to titles such as Crash Bandicoot.

All of the Dissidia: Final Fantasy screenshots have been seen before, just not in as high quality. One of the more interesting screenshots features the recently announced Onion Knight.

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With Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party that took place last weekend, it really comes as no surprise that Japanese gaming magazine; Famitsu have something to say about the titles featured at the event.

This month’s issue of Famitsu featured a two page spread on Dissidia: Final Fantasy, a two page spread on Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, and a three page spread on Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. Due to our lack of knowledge when it comes to the Japanese langauge, we don’t actually know if the magazine scans contain any new information; however the scans do contain some new images so it’s worth checking out.

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The above photo was snapped at Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party that took place last weekend. The photo contains three concept box arts for Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

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This weeks edition of the Japanese gaming magazine, Jump Weekly featured a page spread on three of the upcoming games in the Kingdom Hearts compilation. The main focus of the article was on Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, though there was a little on Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Coded.

The Jump Weekly scan further confirms a vague release date of 2008 for Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. The screenshots featured in the scan reveal a little new information, we know know that at one point or another you’ll get to visit Beast’s Castle; a world featured in Kingdom Hearts II. The new screenshots also reveal a couple of changes to the games original interface, a new special points system now appears in the left hand corner of the screen; and Roxas’ character icon has changed since the last batch of screenshots.

Interestingly, it seems that there is a map on the bottom screen. This suggests that Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days probably won’t intergrate the Nintendo DS’s touch screen in the way that fans had originally hoped. It’s not the end of the world, but it is a shame.

In regard to Birth By Sleep, the release date is still unknown. The same goes for Kingdom Hearts: Coded, the scan also suggests that Kingdom Hearts: Coded will feature a different combo system that will make Sora far more powerful than in previous titles. Though this isn’t confirmed.