Rumor: Sony and Konami are preparing a restart of the Silent Hill series – with veterans of the series and possibly Hideo Kojima

At the beginning of the year, a rumor appeared in the network that some time ago the company Konami started looking for developers to revive Silent hill and seems to have settled on two new titles. Then it was reported that one of them should be a restart, and the other – an anthology or episodic game.

The source who talked about this, and another informant who was not connected with it, confirmed to the resource Riely on horror information that Masahiro Ito, creature designer for the first four games of the series, really working on the new Silent Hillas previously thought. At the same time, these same sources call Sony as the “driving force” for the return of the franchise as an exclusive Playstation 5, although the latter is only an assumption.

The first source, which the site trusts well, adds that Keiichiro Toyama, development manager and screenwriter of the original 1999 Silent Hill, and Akira Yamaoka, the composer of most parts of the series, is also returning to work on a new game along with Masahiro Ito. The trio will spearhead a soft reboot of Silent Hill, which may be called so – simply “Silent Hill”. It is reported that fully or partially engaged in development SIE Japan Studiowhich may include team members Project sirenstanding behind the horror Siren: Blood Curse for PlayStation 3. A source claims that the project has been under development for about a year.

The second franchise title mentioned in the January rumor may be the same Silent Hills Hideo Kojima. According to the first source, Sony is working to build a relationship between Kojima Productions and Konami, and to revive the canceled game. The second source in the past shared the same information with the site.

According to the first source, this the game must use a headset Playstation VR the next generation, and was proposed by Kojima as a title, more similar to the story-oriented games Telltale and Supermassive Games, in the development of which he will have complete creative freedom. At the moment, however, the deal on this project has not yet been closed, and the only game that is in active production is a reboot from SIE Japan Studio.

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