A trailer embedded in a post on the U.S. PlayStation.Blog has revealed that Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, which had previously been promised to hit North American store shelves this summer, has received a firm release date of September 7. If you're extra enthusiastic about vanquishing the Heartless, the post explains that you'll also be able to pick up a hardware bundle that includes the game, an unannounced movie, a 4GB memory stick and a "Mystic Silver" (that's fancy-speak for "plain ol' silver") PSP-3000 on the same day.

The PlayStation.Blog post didn't mention a price for this package -- we'd guess it'll be around the usual $199.99 price point that other PSP bundles are currently being offered for, but we've contacted Sony to try and get a more official number. In the meantime, check out the brand new, ever-so-brief trailer for Birth by Sleep that's posted above.

Update: A press release accompanying this announcement just arrived in our inbox, revealing a handful of the game's auspicious cast of voice actors: Mark Hamill, Willa Holland, Jesse McCartney, James Woods and Leonard Nimoy. Oh, Nimoy, our oldest friend. It's been too long.

Source: Joystiq

My wallet is so dead :( :P

Hell yeah, finally

This is a day one game all over

Hrmmm I've wanted a PSP for a while now, had one a while back and found no use for it. Lately there have been great games and as long as E3 doesn't announce a PSP2, I'll be getting that bundle.

my gf will be happy about this, she has been waiting on a release date for a while.

8 months between the Japanese and US release is quite long, it only took KH II 3 months. I thought SE wanted to do more worldwide releases from now on?

lestatdark said: Hell yeah, finally This is a day one game all over

im so hyped too, birth by sleep can't come soon enough hehe:):)

September 7th?

Just in time for a probable pricecut on PSP

FINALLY! I've been waiting forever for it to come out. And it will soon be mine. *laugh's maniacally*

jneul said: lestatdark said: Hell yeah, finally This is a day one game all over im so hyped too, birth by sleep can't come soon enough hehe:):)

You bet, this has been such a long waiting time >_< 

Nothing that isn't normal for us EU gamers though, even previous KH games took almost a year to come here, even after the NA release. 

lestatdark said: jneul said: lestatdark said: Hell yeah, finally This is a day one game all over im so hyped too, birth by sleep can't come soon enough hehe:):) You bet, this has been such a long waiting time >_<  Nothing that isn't normal for us EU gamers though, even previous KH games took almost a year to come here, even after the NA release.

I still remember how long crisis core took to come to the UK, lol Time to get reminding myself how awesom kindom hearts is, ~~ boots up ps2:):)