After years of rumours and leaks, including by Konami themselves earlier today, we finally have official confirmation of future Silent Hill games. The Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Team is real! The developers of Observation are making a new Silent Hill game! There's a third new game called Silent Hill f! Step below for the full list of what's kicking off in that foggy town.
Tonight's livestream started with a trailer for the long-rumoured Silent Hill 2 remake by Bloober Team, the developers of Layers Of Fear. The trailer focused on cutscenes, but there was lots of footage including characters and locations from the original game. It's running on Unreal Engine 5, and it's a PlayStation 5 console exclusive but also confirmed as coming to PC.
There was chat with some of the developers of Bloober Team, who talked about wanting to modernise the original. They say that's why the remake will have an over-the-shoulder camera, although it otherwise seems faithful to the original world and story. There's a Steam page live for the remake now.
Silent Hill: Townfall is a brand new game set in the world of Silent Hill. It's being published by Annapurna, and developed by No Code, the makers of Stories Untold and Observation. There was an evocative trailer with a creepy voiceover, but no real glimpse of the game itself. No Code's Jon McKellan suggested they were just at the start of the development process.
Director Christophe Gans has spoken previously about his desire to make a a sequel to his 2006 Silent Hill film. During the stream, we got confirmation of the project, with Gans and the producers talking about the project, which is explicitly based on the Silent Hill 2 game. (It seems likely the cheaper 2012 movie sequel is
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