Kingdom Hearts III switched to Unreal Engine 4

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Kingdom Hearts III is dropping Square Enix’s in-house Luminous Engine for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, director Tetsuya Nomura revealed.

“Surely and steadily, and we’re progressing on schedule,” Nomura said when asked about the game’s development status during a new Famitsu interview. “For various reasons, we’ve changed the game engine to Unreal Engine 4, because of which we’ve been facing rendering troubles. But Epic Games has been really cooperative and helpful, so we’re progressing just fine.”

Nomura continued, “Right now, we’re doing the scenario writing and world selection. I’m also making the new outfits for Sora and Riku.”

Kingdom Hearts III is in development for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

So far, their internally developed Luminous engine has only been used for a pre-rendered tech demo.

#2

so it will look good then

#3

Another day, another news of incompetence at Square Enix HQ. Like Vizzy said, by using a tried and trusted engine, it’ll ensure that the game will (hopefully) come out sooner rather than later.

#4

Sounds like amazing news. Possible PC port?

#5

I wouldn’t be surprised if most of their games ended up on Steam eventually.