Silent Hill 2 developer is working with Konami on a thriller recreation – The Verge

Bloober Staff and Konami are collaborating once more an one other recreation primarily based on Konami’s IP.
Bloober Staff and Konami are collaborating once more an one other recreation primarily based on Konami’s IP.
by Ash Parrish
Like Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Konami and Bloober Staff are again in motion collectively. Bloober Staff introduced that it’ll continue its partnership with the Japanese writer engaged on a brand new challenge.
“The belief constructed upon the success of Silent Hill 2 laid the inspiration for signing one other settlement for a brand new challenge,” the announcement learn. And whereas the brand new challenge will probably be one thing primarily based on Konami’s IP, the 2 corporations didn’t share if the following recreation will probably be one other Silent Hill or one thing else from Konami’s again catalogue. (Hey, simply thinkin’ out loud right here, however when was the final Castlevania recreation launched? 2014? Oh, OK.)
Konami and Bloober Staff paired up in 2022 when the businesses introduced they might be collaborating on a remake of Silent Hill 2. Because of lukewarm evaluations of Bloober’s unique horror recreation The Medium, there was skepticism that the studio would be capable to pull off a remake of one of the celebrated survival horror video games of its time. However Silent Hill 2 launched to rave reviews and gross sales making it the quickest promoting entry within the Silent Hill collection.
Past Bloober Staff, Konami can also be engaged on a brand new, non-remake Silent Hill recreation named Silent Hill F that it debuted in 2022 however has since supplied scant updates. There’s additionally a film adaptation of Silent Hill 2 within the works with Christophe Gans, the director of the primary (not nice!) Silent Hill film, tapped to direct.
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