New DS Kingdom Hearts Confirmed, To Be Shown At E3

No more rumors and speculation on the next installment in the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Kingdom Hearts Re:coded has just been officially teased by Square Enix North America. First screen after the jump!

All right, let's begin with all of the information that Square Enix has provided on Kingdom Hearts Re:coded. Below is the first screen of the game followed by the company's brief description.

KINGDOM HEARTS Re:coded
Developer: Square Enix Co., Ltd./h.a.n.d. Inc.
Publisher: Square Enix, Inc.
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genre: Action RPG
ESRB: RP (Rating Pending)
Ship Date: TBD
 
Sora’s journey in KINGDOM HEARTS II has drawn to a close, and now a new tale is set to begin. Jiminy Cricket is looking over the journal he used to document his first adventure with Sora when he discovers a mysterious message. He didn’t write it – so how on earth did it get there? King Mickey is determined to find out, so he and his friends decide to digitize the journal and delve into its deepest secrets. Inside this “datascape” dwells a second Sora who is about to embark on a grand adventure of his very own.

Now, as any diehard Kingdom Hearts fan knows, there is an eight-part episodic cell phone game called Kingdom Hearts Coded that was released only in Japan last year. If we go by the naming convention started with Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories (a PS2 remake of the Gameboy Advance original), it's safe to assume that this is most likely a remake of that cell phone series localized in English. We'll know next week one way or the other.