Journalist site Mainichi Interactive has reported that the main theme song for Square and Disney's upcoming collaborative RPG "Kingdom Hearts", will be composed and sung by J-POP vocalist Hikaru Utada, aka "Hikki". Mainichi reports that the two companies decided on Utada, due to her wide recognition in Japan.

Utada comments that "the song is so wonderful that it carrys my name". The song titled "Hikari" (Light, in English) will also be released as a single CD by Toshiba EMI on 3/20, priced 1,100 Yen. An English rendition of the song is also in development for overseas versions.

Kingdom Hearts is scheduled for release on Playstation2 in 3/28, priced 6,800 Yen.


Special Thanks to Techside.net for the News.

Short Comment- Born in New York, Utada is a bilingual Jpop singer. And from the looks of the news, it seems like she'll be doing songs for both Japanese & English versions of the games. Oh, and in case you're wondering, "Hikaru" is a verb form of"'Hikari", so they're synonymous to each other. -H. Moriarty

Quoted by Yahoo Reuters, Bill was seen in this Harry Potter outfit and wig " in a video dressed as the character Harry Potter during Gates' keynote address to kick off the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino in Las Vegas, January 7, 2002. "

It's quite disturbing to see bill Gates looking so perfect in the Harry Potter costume.

But then again, that also means that the young actor Daniel Radcliffe will probably look like Bill when he grows old. The Lucky boy can do a movie on Microsoft when he reaches mid-age crisis!


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Special Thanks to Leon and Bluesnews.com for the News. -H. Moriarty