{"id":85850,"date":"2026-07-13T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85850"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:50:10","slug":"kingdom-hearts-4-news-could-come-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85850","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Hearts 4 News Could Come Sooner Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/\">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\/\">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<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nZjagzpvHXU  <\/p>\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<\/p>\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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":85852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85853,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85850\/revisions\/85853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}