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SILENT HILLS FALLS SILENT

28/4/2015

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A long, long, long, long time ago, Digitiser's Mr Hairs and Mr Biffo were invited to Konami's UK HQ to watch a screening of Batman: The Mask of Phantasm - the feature-length spin-off from Batman: The Animated Series. Konami was releasing a Batman: TAS game, see, and this was their way of promoting it to the gaming press.

Typically, as was the way with most promotional trips that Hairs and Biffo were sent on, that they got about 5 minutes into the film before getting a fit of giggles about something or another, pretended to both be going to the lavatory, and then left the building never to return.

Which brings us nicely to the sorry news that the highly anticipated Silent Hills has also left the Konami building, and won't be looking back.

PLEASE, WHAT IS GOING ON?
Quite what's going on with Konami is anyone's guess: yesterday the company confirmed that it had cancelled Silent Hills, the game it was developing with movie director Guillermo del Toro, and due to feature The Walking Dead star Norman "Darryl" Reedus (a pairing that, you'd have thought, would be enough to save most projects from cancellation). Adding cuss-words to cussingtons, the game's playable trailer has now been removed from the PlayStation store.

A statement from Konami bragged: "Konami is committed to new Silent Hill titles, however the embryonic ‘Silent Hills’ project developed with Guillermo del Toro and featuring the likeness of Norman Reedus will not be continued. In terms of Kojima and Del Toro being involved, discussions on future Silent Hill projects are currently underway, and please stay tuned for further announcements."

Tellingly, no mention was made in Konami's statement to Hideo Kojima, who was initially involved in the Silent Hills project as co-director. The company has evidently had a major falling out with Kojima, announcing earlier this year that the Metal Gear Solid creator would be departing the company after completing work on MGS: The Phantom Pain, and that it would be seeking new staff to work on future Metal Gear titles. Over the past few months, Konami has beens steadily airbrushing Kojima's name out of existence. 

The weird Konami news doesn't stop there: the company has also now delisted itself from the New York Stock Exchange, stating that it would save money by doing so. That might be the case, but the timing seems a bit peculiar, coming as it does on a wave of negative publicity.


Here's a lovely-looking Silent Hills teaser trailer. Watch it and weep:
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Virtual Hermit link
28/4/2015 05:35:47 am

P.T was amazingly scary, it was like Konami/Kojima had taken note of what horror gaming had become(Amenesia, outlast etc) and applied that to the next Silent hill game they were working on. Sad news indeed that Konami have cancelled Silent hills.

On my travels through the interweb I did stumble upon this video which sheds some light(maybe) on Konami's weirdness of late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMK-kajdgMA

I hope the link works, if not then just search for Super bunnyhop channel on Youtube.

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Simon
28/4/2015 07:53:06 am

Disappointed by this news as I was hoping for a revival of the Silent Hill franchise. I also badly wanted to play PT but wasn't prepared to pay £400 to play a demo so was going to wait until I picked up a PS4 to play it next year.

Oh well I will never get to play it now

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gaijintendo
28/4/2015 02:21:57 pm

I am pretty sure that this is all a marketing rouse, and the next Metal Gear Solid will somehow have a plot which ties in with press, manipulation, and expectations...
The plot will be Whichever Snake rage quits, and tries to set up as an freelance mercenary. All the covert operations which he was working on will then go bad. He will feel bad about destabilising some political thing, and then end up finishing the missions anyway, because there is too much money involved and his franchises are just too big for him to go away and do other things.

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