Silent Hill 1 Remake Officially in Development at Bloober Team, Konami Has Announced

Konami had a large announcement acceptable for its Konami Press Start Live showcase: a Silent Hill 1 remake.

The Silent Hill remake is officially successful improvement astatine Bloober Team, the developer that handled the well-received Silent Hill 2 remake.

There's not overmuch to spell on, unfortunately, but we did get a little tease during the showcase that included the Silent Hill logo and its iconic music. No merchandise day was mentioned. For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine Konami Press Start Live June 2025.

In February, Bloober Team announced it had signed a woody with Konami to marque a caller crippled based connected the Japanese company’s IP, pursuing the palmy merchandise of the Silent Hill 2 remake. Now we cognize it was for a remake of the archetypal Silent Hill game.

Silent Hill exploded onto the country successful 1999 connected the PlayStation arsenic a Resident Evil rival from Konami. It established the series’ trademark fog-filled visuals, third-person viewpoint, and the eerie municipality of Silent Hill itself. It sees Harry Mason searching for his missing adopted daughter, Cheryl — and each mode of horrible things on the way.

The Silent Hill 2 remake has sold 2 cardinal copies, truthful it’s nary astonishment to spot Konami greenlight different remake successful the series. And it is nary astonishment to spot the archetypal crippled get the remake attraction next. In an IGN poll, implicit 61% of the 20,000 voters picked Silent Hill arsenic the Silent Hill crippled Konami should remake next.

Here’s the authoritative blurb from Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno, issued backmost successful February:

Konami, a legendary sanction successful the gaming industry, sought a spouse who could respire caller beingness into 1 of its astir iconic franchises — Silent Hill. Bloober Team was selected for their expertise successful fearfulness and atmospheric storytelling, and successful 2021, some companies signed a concern agreement. In October 2022, during the authoritative Silent Hill Transmission livestream, it was announced that Bloober Team was moving connected a remake of Silent Hill 2, wide regarded arsenic 1 of the champion intelligence fearfulness games successful history.The occurrence of the remake proved that Bloober Team had perfectly captured the ambiance and extent of the archetypal portion introducing important innovations. The crippled was well-received by players, earning an 86/100 standing connected Metacritic and an 88/100 connected OpenCritic, on with galore awards, including Game of the Year 2024 from IGN Japan and Best Horror Game of the Year from the IGN Community Awards.The spot built upon the occurrence of Silent Hill 2 laid the instauration for signing different statement for a caller project. The woody aligns with Bloober Team’s strategical program to grow its interior improvement part wrong a first-party framework.Our collaboration with Konami has been incredibly fruitful, and the occurrence of Silent Hill 2 speaks for itself. By sharing cognition and experience, we person been capable to make high-quality accumulation together. Of course, we can't uncover excessively galore details astatine this time, but we are assured that fans volition beryllium conscionable arsenic excited astir our collaboration arsenic we are. We can't hold to stock thing genuinely peculiar with players erstwhile the clip is right.

Silent Hill 2 remake went connected merchantability connected PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam connected October 8, 2024 (there’s nary connection connected an Xbox Series X and S mentation yet), and conscionable a fewer days aboriginal had sold 1 cardinal copies. This was thought to person made Silent Hill 2 remake the fastest-selling Silent Hill crippled ever, but Konami has yet to rubber stamp that imaginable record.

IGN’s Silent Hill 2 remake reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: “Silent Hill 2 is simply a large mode to sojourn – oregon revisit – 1 of the astir dread-inducing destinations successful the past of endurance horror.”

The income occurrence of the Silent Hill 2 remake has intelligibly strengthened Konami’s plans for the franchise, which person ramped up importantly successful caller years. Silent Hill f and Silent Hill: Townfall are some inactive successful the works. Now we person Silent Hill remake. There's a movie adaptation of Silent Hill 2 coming, too.

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