Silent Hill finally returns in a reveal this week - Polygon

After galore rumors and leaks, and implicit a decennary without a large caller game, Konami volition uncover the aboriginal of the Silent Hill bid connected Wednesday this week, astatine 5 p.m. EDT.

“In your restless dreams, bash you spot that town?” the institution tweeted from the authoritative Silent Hill account. “The latest updates for the SILENT HILL series, volition beryllium revealed during the #SILENTHILL Transmission connected Wednesday, October 19th, astatine 2:00 PM. PDT.”

The tweet links to a caller Silent Hill website, which has nary further information.

Masahiro Ito, who worked arsenic monster decorator and creation manager connected the archetypal 3 Silent Hill games, retweeted the announcement. Ito confirmed successful 2020 that helium was moving arsenic “a halfway member” of a improvement squad connected a caller game. A portion of artwork signed by Ito appeared successful a bid of images that leaked earlier this year, purporting to beryllium from a caller Silent Hill game.

These images are said to relate to a P.T.-style playable teaser for a new, mainline Silent Hill. South Korea’s crippled ratings assemblage recently rated a game called Silent Hill: The Short Message.

Also successful the works, reportedly, is simply a remake of Silent Hill 2 made by Polish fearfulness specializer Bloober Team (Layers of Fear), which announced a partnership with Konami past year. A 3rd rumored task involves an episodic, story-focused series. Also, Christophe Gans, who directed the 2006 movie Silent Hill, has said he’s moving connected the publication for a 3rd Silent Hill movie.

Any and each of this mightiness beryllium revealed connected Wednesday; it’s adjacent imaginable we’ll spot the merchandise of the reported playable teaser.

Despite being hugely fashionable with fearfulness fans, the Silent Hill bid has been much oregon little dormant since 2012, which saw the merchandise of Silent Hill: Downpour and handheld spinoff Silent Hill: Book of Memories. Neither rubric was good received. The bid was owed for a high-profile relaunch successful a crippled called Silent Hills, produced arsenic a collaboration betwixt Hideo Kojima and the movie manager Guillermo del Toro, and promoted by the merchandise of P.T. But the crippled was cancelled successful 2015 amid Kojima’s acrimonious departure from Konami and the publisher’s partial retreat from large crippled development.

The instrumentality of Silent Hill is simply a large infinitesimal for fans of the series, and it’s besides a large trial for Konami, which hasn’t released a large video crippled since 2018’s Metal Gear Survive — unless you number the disastrous motorboat of its rebranded shot franchise, eFootball. All eyes volition beryllium connected Wednesday's announcement to spot if it tin rebuild players’ trust.