Kingdom Hearts 3 Will Now Run on Unreal Engine 4

Kingdom Hearts III

A new Famitsu interview with Kingdom Hearts series director Tetsuya Nomura has revealed that Kingdom Hearts 3 will now run on Unreal Engine 4.

Following his previous interview with Famitsu, Nomura stated that the team were having problems with it’s current engine (which was Luminous) and they were focusing on writing scenario and selecting worlds in the meantime.

Square Enix in 2012, signed a long term licensing deal with Epic Games to use their Unreal 3 and 4 engines.

We will provide the full interview once it’s tranlsated.

Source: aibo_ac7, Famitsu