Separately, Bloober Team says it has spent over a year with ‘another horror IP’ from a ‘famous gaming publisher’
Rumors are circulating that Konami is finally doing something significant again with Silent Hill.
While the forsaken series has drawn will-they-won’t-they speculation for years, it’s hard not to daydream about what could and should be, no matter how many rumors fail to materialize. The latest word, from , suggests Konami has turned to external partners to help revitalize Silent Hill.
The outlet heard from sources that a Supermassive pitch didn’t move forward, and that Konami has “outsourced a Silent Hill project to a prominent Japanese developer, with a reveal due this summer.”
(The author noted on that it’s not Kojima Productions – a frequent guess – and added that Konami is eying externally-developed Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania projects further out.)
On a separate but (maybe) related note, potentially suggesting that there could be modern interpretation of Silent Hill, speculation has come out of a interview with Bloober Team CEO Peter Babieno, in which he commented on the studio’s next horror game.
Babieno says they’ve “been working for more than a year on another gaming project, another horror IP, and we’re doing this with a very famous gaming publisher. I can’t tell you who. I can’t tell you what the project is, but I’m pretty sure when people realize we’re working on it, they will be very excited.”
It’s a long shot, but I can picture the creator of Layers of Fear, Blair Witch, and The Medium partnering with Konami for a new take on Silent Hill, particularly with the way the publisher has been lending the brand out to contemporary multiplayer horror games like Dead by Daylight and Monsters & Mortals.
That willingness to license tells me anything could be on the table – that it’s just a matter of time. If all else fails and Silent Hill fans feel burned again, at least we’ve got Keiichiro Toyama’s Bokeh Game Studio.
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[GamesIndustry.biz]
Published: Feb 18, 2021 03:30 pm