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During a Q&A stream on Twitch on June 2, 2024, Summer Game Fest host Geoff Keighley shot down fans hoping for a new announcement concerning the Kingdom Hearts franchise at the 2024 event. Summer Games Fest is set to air on Friday June 7, 2024. (Thanks, Genki_JPN on X!)
Keighley took to Twitch to answer some questions from viewers over on The Game Awards’ official channel. When responding to multiple inquiries about the presence of a Kingdom Hearts announcement at Summer Game Fest 2024, he said this:
People keep asking about Kingdom Hearts, I don’t know why. Is that because we did (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) last year? People are setting themselves up for failure, but you guys can keep hoping.
Geoff Keighley
You can watch Keighley’s Q&A stream in full over on the Game Awards Twitch channel, with the comment about Kingdom Hearts at Summer Game Fest 2024 appearing at around 00:28:50. While not an official proclamation, Keighley’s organizational role at Summer Game Fest make his words a pretty definitive statement on the rumors, so appears Kingdom Hearts fans will need to wait until another event to learn more about a new installment in the beloved series. The next mainline game in the series is set to be Kingdom Hearts 4, which was announced back in April 2022. Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link is also in the works for mobile devices. More recently, Square Enix announced updates would be coming to Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance HD on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Summer Game Fest 2024 is set to air via Twitch and Youtube on Friday June 7, 2024, at 2 pm PT or 5 pm ET.
