Besides speculation, Tetsuya Nomura, director of the Kingdom Hearts franchise, has stated that the upcoming Kingdom Hearts game for the Nintendo 3DS will not be a remake of any existing titles in the franchise. “It’s not a remake, but a completely original game,” said Nomura.

According to Kingdom Hearst Insiders , a member of their community forums has posted a post stating that Square or Disney has been auditioning people to voice the Organization XIII members. And guest what, they say that the game that they are auditioning for is ‘Chains of Memories’ . Which was remade into a PlayStation 2 game titled Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories , which was released in Japan packaged with Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix in March 2007.

“The casting people/paperwork are/is specifically calling it ‘Kingdom Hearts Chains of Memories’ and are SPECIFICALLY casting the 5 Organization members that I named in the article, all of whom were in CoM and don’t have cast English voice actors (outside of those 5 I don’t know if anyone else is being cast in any fashion, although I THINK those were the only 5 characters who are in CoM who don’t already have English actors from KH/KH2).”

This news was later called ” not untrue” by Neogaf Member Aeana, who is well known for her insider information. And unlike previous rumors, KHInsider actually believes this one to be true. However, it is still a rumor, and should be treated as one until we have official word.