Someone Bought the Silent Hill Domain Name to Troll Konami

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Few video game franchises have seen as intense calls for a return from their fan base as Silent Hill has. The horror franchise has been deeply important to games as a whole, boasting some of the most iconic enemies games have ever seen. However, Konami doesn't seem particularly keen on making a new one, much to the chagrin of the series' advocates. In response, one fan is taking a bit of revenge.

While it's unclear who, exactly, is responsible, someone has purchased the domain silenthill.com and is currently hosting a tweet from Masahiro Ito, the art director for the Silent Hill series, stating that he wished he had never designed Pyramid Head, the franchise's most iconic villain. The tweet is real, too, having been posted just a few days ago on his personal Twitter account.

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Konami has allowed the domain's registration to lapse before but managed to buy it back before anyone else could. This time, however, an internet troll has gotten the better of the company, and it may cost a pretty penny to get the domain back if Konami decides that it's still worth having. Rumors have circulated thatSilent Hill will return, too, so it doesn't seem entirely unlikely that Konami will come looking for it.

Of course, that purely depends on speculation. Konami's relationship with the games industry has been tumultuous since 2015, shortly after it released Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid 5. Konami was criticized for how it handled its split with Kojima, who has since formed his own studio, Kojima Productions. At the time, Kojima was working on a reboot of the series called Silent Hills, which would have featured Norman Reedus as the protagonist.

That story didn't have quite the ending